We love St. Patrick’s Day, and this year we came up with some fun things suitable for the whole family. Find out about our easy shamrock cake, a traditional potato recipe, a simple holiday drawing tip, some gifts for the wee ones, a garden update and, of course, the bears!

EASY SHAMROCK CAKE

This no-bake cake was easy to create. We were going to stencil the shamrocks onto the cake with green decorating sugar, but early attempts didn’t go well. After looking around the candy aisle for an alternative, we thought that mint dark chocolate M&M’s would make perfect shamrocks. They did!

For the shamrock cake we used:

• store-bought angel food loaf cake
• 1 can white frosting, dyed with 2 drops green gel food coloring
• green, dark chocolate mint M&M’s
• 1 tube green cake decorating gel
• green decorating sugar

How to prepare:

• Place cake on plate lined with pieces of…