Irish This Up for Me

St. Patrick's Day is next Saturday. It falls an hour earlier this year, thanks to that change in Daylight Savings Time that I've already mentioned.

Not what you'd call a major bakery holiday, certainly not on par with Christmas or Valentine's Day, but we do have lots of Irish Soda Bread made by our friend Sean Hurley. It's the closest thing to genuine Irish Soda Bread you'll find on these shores short of importing it from the Emerald Isle, which will take much more than a week, so you won't have it on St. Patrick's Day, and everyone will mock you.

We've also got something brand new to the site this year, Irish Whiskey Cake made with plenty of chocolate chunks, green Maraschino cherries, and Jamieson's Irish Whiskey. I've had many a debate with bartenders over whether it should be spelled "Whisky" or "Whiskey," but either way it goes great with chocolate. And cake. And Maraschino cherries.

We've been selling this cake here at the bakery for several years, and it's always a big seller, so we thought we'd share it with all you nice folks out there in Internets land, so long as you live in the continental United States. It may not be soaked in Jamieson's, but there's a good chance that it can ease the pain come Sunday morning, should Saturday night find you wearing the green into the wee hours.