St. Patrick's Day is a big deal around here.  My two daughters are Irish dancers, and I used to be, too (and still love ceili dancing at any opportunity!).  So of COURSE I made some St. Patrick's Day cookies!

Every rainbow (cookie) deserves a sweet pot of gold.

I decided to use my favorite watercolor technique for painting all of these cookies--even the cauldron.  Giving the cookie the suggestion of black rather than making actual black icing saved a LOT of food coloring (and no zombie-mouth effect for the kids eating the cookies).

The key to making those lustrous, golden coins?  I painted the pile of coins yellow, then painted with gold airbrush color [1] (it's the perfect painting consistency straight out of the bottle), then topped with gold disco dust [2].  Talk about cookie bling!

My pot-o-gold cookies fit right in with the rest of the rainbow St. Patrick's Day cookies.

Unicorns, of course.  I used the same technique as for my unicorn sugar cookies (check out the video tutorial here [3]), only this time, I used a full rainbow of colors.

I don't know which version of the unicorn cookies I like better!

I also pulled out a couple other unicorn cookie cutters I happened to have.

I don't think I've used this cookie cutter since my older daughter's Rainbow Unicorn 4th birthday party [4] (and she's now 13!).  It was about time it came out of retirement.

An appropriately magical cookie set, don't you think?  What do you do for St. Patrick's Day?

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