What’s the best way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? With a party! If you’re playing host this year, I have 17+ amazing St. Patrick’s Day finger food ideas that all of your guests will love, from snack boards to Irish elephant ears and everything in between.
17+ St. Patrick’s Day Finger Food Ideas for Your Party This Year
1. Lucky Charms Rice Krispie Treats
Rice Krispie treats are always a hit at parties. It may not be the most glamorous finger food at your party, but trust me, it will be one of the most popular.
I love this recipe because it puts a fun St. Patrick’s Day twist on the classic recipe. It adds Lucky Charms cereal (marshmallows and all) into the mix, along with green gel food coloring. It’s a bit of a process to make these, but worth every step. You’ll need to chill your treats in the fridge for a few hours before serving.
I recommend using a glass baking dish because it will be much easier to remove your treats once they’re cut.
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2. St. Patrick’s Day Snack Board
I love this snack board, and it’s absolutely perfect for St. Patrick’s Day. You have a little bit of everything on this board, from pumpernickel bread to pretzels, beer cheese dip, potato latkes, green vegetables, corned beef, Swiss cheese and steamed green veggies.
You can make this board as simple or extravagant as you want. It’s the perfect finger food to serve just before the main course.
3. Spinach and Feta Pastry Shamrock
How fun are these shamrock pastries? They’re the perfect little finger food for your party, and it’s easier than you think to make this festive shape with puff pastry.
Will Cook for Smiles walks you through each step of making shamrocks out of your dough.
The filling is a delicious mix of spinach, feta cheese and mozzarella cheese, which becomes so creamy once it’s done baking.
To make your life easier, I recommend using a pizza cutter to create precise strips with your pastry sheets. Otherwise, the rest of the recipe is as easy as pie.
4. Green Deviled Eggs
These festive deviled eggs will be the star of the show at your table. The recipe is a classic one. The only difference is that you’ll dip the egg whites into green food coloring to give it that shamrock color.
If you want to make your deviled eggs look extra fancy, you can use a piping bag to pipe the filling into your egg whites. You can also add some bacon bits or chives into your filling for an extra burst of flavor if you want.
5. Irish Potato Nachos
No list of St. Patrick’s Day finger food ideas is complete without Irish potato nachos. Is this a traditional dish? Absolutely not. But it’s so fun to make, and everyone will love it. It has layers of sliced potatoes topped with cheddar cheese, bacon, jalapenos, tomatoes and red onion.
Plus, you’ll love the Guinness cheese sauce that’s included in the recipe.
You can fry the potatoes in a frying pan, you can air fry them, or you can bake them if you wish.
6. Green Goddess Pesto and Goat Cheese Bites
These goat cheese bites are so delicious. Start with your favorite crackers and top with goat cheese and your homemade green goddess pesto. I love that this pesto recipe includes pistachios and herbs like tarragon. Combined, they create a unique flavor that really adds something special to these bites.
7. Ranch Fiesta Spirals
Fiesta spirals are sort of like mini wraps filled with bell peppers, cilantro, green chilies, green onions, spinach wraps, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, ranch, mayo and olives. Start by beating the sour cream and cheese cream into a bowl with an electric mixer.
Stir all of the filling ingredients slowly and make sure they’re combined well.
Spoon the filling onto the wraps, roll up tightly and wrap with plastic because you’ll be leaving them in the refrigerator overnight. Slice into pieces the next day and serve.
8. Shrimp Cucumber Avocado Bites
Shrimp is one of the St. Patrick’s Day finger food ideas that you may or may not appreciate on this list. You’ll cut cucumbers into slices, add avocado mash on top and then put your cooked shrimp on top and serve.
It’s really that simple.
9. St. Patrick’s Day Puppy Chow
Puppy chow may sound a little odd to your guests until you realize that it’s a mixture of Chex Rice Cereal, green candy melts, powdered sugar and peanut butter. Toppings for this mixture include M&Ms, Shamrock marshmallows and sprinkles.
And if you have all of the ingredients, the prep time is just five minutes and you’ll be eating in ten.
10. Green Lucky Charms Rice Krispie Treats
No bake Rice Krispie treats? Where do I sign up? I have an affinity for Rice Krispie treats, but they’re rich, so it’s a once or twice-a-year treat for me. You’ll need tons of butter – six tablespoons – white mini marshmallows, green food coloring, Lucky Charms, vanilla extract, mini marshmallows and add a few sprinkles on top for good measure.
With all of your ingredients on hand, pull out your 9×13 baking dish, spray it with cooking oil and set it aside.
In a saucepan, start melting your heaps of butter before reducing the heat and adding in your marshmallows. Add your food coloring and continue stirring in the marshmallows slowly. Add your vanilla and finally start folding in your Lucky Charms.
Pour into the baking dish and press the cereal bars into a flat shape. Allow the mixture to settle and enjoy.
11. Cucumber Bites
Light and delicious. These cucumber bites will take you minutes to make and are simply sliced cucumbers to use as a mini plate for your topping. Speaking of topping, you’ll whip feta cheese and fresh dill together before dabbing it on top.
Serve alongside a bowl of whipped feta and trust me when I tell you that your guests will love these little treats.
12. Flaky Parmesan and Spinach Cheese Twists
One Hour Recipes has the perfect option for this list of St. Patrick’s Day finger food ideas, and they’re going to appeal to all of the cheese lovers reading this article. You’ll need about 40 minutes to prep these, but all you need is:
- Puff pastry
- Fresh spinach
- Parmesan cheese
- Mozzarella cheese
Add in a few spices and you’re almost there. I’ll let you follow the recipe because it’s quite long, albeit easy to make, and the author also includes dipping sauce ideas, which I know you’ll appreciate.
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13. Easy Ham and Cheese Pastries
Ham and cheese pastries are always a perfect Irish meal for St Patty’s Day. Small yet satiating, you’ll appreciate how easy it is to make these pastries and how good they taste. You’ll need a cup of ham to get started, along with:
- Egg
- Puff pastry
- Dubliner cheese
If you have all of this, it’s as simple as chopping up the ham and cheese into small chunks and shavings, respectively. Roll out your puff pastry into squares and fill with the ham and cheese. Fold each corner to the middle of the square and bake for 20 minutes or so.
14. Bacon Green Bean Bundles
Green bean bundles are simple enough that even kids can help you put them together. You’ll need green beans – I prefer fresh – bacon, spices, butter, sugar and a few other ingredients. Trim your green bean ends, and put them in a pot of boiling water with a touch of salt.
Bake your bacon for about seven minutes.
Drain the green beans and place in a bowl of ice water before patting dry. Add your spices, wrap the green beans with bacon and hold everything together with toothpicks. Bake for 15+ minutes until the bacon is just the right level of crispy.
15. Spinach Balls
Spinach balls are one of the St. Patrick’s Day finger food ideas that are always crowd-pleasers. The recipe calls for frozen spinach that is properly thawed and drained, but that is 100% up to you.
In addition to the spinach, you’ll need to use your food processor to finely chop two small onions.
You’ll also need herbed stuffing, eggs, butter, Parmesan cheese and spices for this recipe. If you opt for ready-made stuffing, your spinach balls will be done in as few as 20 minutes. It’s as simple as combining the ingredients, forming them into a ball and baking.
16. Cucumber Smoked Salmon Bites
If you’re a fan of salmon, you’ll appreciate this eight-ingredient recipe that includes smoked salmon, chives, cucumber, lemon zest, spring onions, black pepper, lemon juice and cream cheese.
These are perfect for guests who want a lighter finger food to eat, but I do recommend using a touch more lemon zest than the recipe requires.
Lemon zest gives these foods a pop of flavor and is something that I highly recommend to everyone.
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17. Green Mini Dessert
I’m not quite sure what to call these, but a “green dessert” seems like a good name to me. The author of the recipe has given the name leprechaun poo to this recipe, which I find hilarious. What are the ingredients? They’re quite good:
- Oreo cookies or any sandwich cookie of your liking
- Green chocolate melts
- Vanilla icing
Crush your Oreos together with the icing in a large mixing bowl by hand. Once they’re thoroughly crushed together, form them into little cookie balls and freeze for an hour or so. Melt the chocolate, pour on top and tamp the chocolate down with a fork.
Allow the chocolate to set before eating.
18. Shamrock Wonton Crackers
Wonton crackers round out my food ideas for the year, and they’re actually one of the simplest options to make. You’ll only need a half cup of pesto, wonton wrappers and salt. Start by preheating your oven to 350°F and lining your baking sheet with parchment paper.
Cut the wonton wrappers into a shamrock shape using this nifty cookie cutter, place on your baking sheet and brush with pesto. Add salt. Bake for under 10 minutes and allow to cool before eating.
And if you make up a large batch of these crackers, they’ll stay good for at least three days in an airtight container.
