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Oh, Shark Week. Glorious, glorious Shark Week...Angeline and I were utterly obsessed with all things Shark Week related right up until the point that we cut cable in 2017 and lost our beloved Discovery Channel. This Shark Week Treats: Shark Cupcakes Recipe is the first time I am sharing a Shark Week themed recipe, but I did share this funny post about Things I've Learned from Shark Week a while back!

We loved Shark Week so much that we actually booked a cage diving with Great White sharks excursion while we were in South Africa in 2015! It was one of the most terrifying and exhilarating experiences of my life! Angeline still talks about that trip to this day! I tell you, if you can afford to make your kid's wildest dreams come true...do it! These kind of experiences are never, ever forgotten!

Shark Week Treats: Shark Cupcakes Recipe

This Shark Cupcakes Recipe is so cute and while the fins do take some time to make, as you're making them from scratch, the effort is worth it! They are so perfect for celebrating Shark Week when they are done!

Notes about Wilton Candy Melts

Please note that Wilton has new packaging and a new size of candy melts. Their old candy melt size was around that of a quarter. The new size is similar to the size of a nickel. I'm referencing the newer size, the nickel when I talk about the number of wafers. So keep that in mind when preparing your cupcakes!

Shark Week Treats: Shark Cupcakes Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 box of your favorite chocolate cake mix and ingredients to make cake (usually oil, egg and water)
• 1 tub, 16 oz, white frosting
• 3 ounces, bright white candy melts (58 wafers)
• 9 black candy melt wafers (individual wafers) 
• 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
• 1M piping tip
• disposable pastry bag
• blue food coloring - I used Wilton Royal Blue color gels
• cornstarch
• 3" round cookie cutter

Directions

Bake cupcakes according to the package directions and cool completely before frosting. 

Add candy melts in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 60 seconds at 50% power. Stir and return to the microwave. Heat in 30 second increments at 50% power and stirring until melted.

Add candy melts in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 60 seconds at 50% power. Stir and return to the microwave. Heat in 30 second increments at 50% power and stirring until melted. Add corn syrup and mix well. A dough like clay will begin to form. Mix until evenly combined. 

Place candy clay onto a piece of plastic wrap and flatten. Wrap with plastic wrap and set aside to cool. 

Knead candy clay until soft and smooth. Use a rolling pin dusted with cornstarch to roll the clay ⅛" thick.

Use a round cutter to create moon like shapes, and cut the moon in half to make a shark fin.

Repeat until you have 24 shark fins made. 

Fit a piping bag with a 1M decorating tip. Spread ½ cup of white frosting along one side of the bag.

Tint the remaining frosting with blue food coloring. Frost each cupcake with a thin layer of blue frosting.

Place remaining blue frosting into the piping bag. 

Press one shark fin into each cupcake in the center. Pipe icing around the fin to look like water.

Repeat until all 24 cupcakes are frosted. 

This Shark Week Treats: Shark Cupcakes Recipe makes 24 cupcakes. 

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Shark Week Treats: Shark Cupcakes Recipe

Author Jennifer

Ingredients

• 1 box of your favorite chocolate cake mix and ingredients to make cake usually oil, egg and water
• 1 tub 16 oz, white frosting
• 3 ounces bright white candy melts (58 wafers)
• 9 black candy melt wafers individual wafers
• 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
  
  
• 1 M piping tip
• disposable pastry bag
• blue food coloring
• -used Wilton Royal Blue color gels
• cornstarch
• 3 " round cookie cutter

Instructions

1. Bake cupcakes according to the package directions and cool completely before frosting.
2. Add candy melts in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 60 seconds at 50% power. Stir and return to the microwave. Heat in 30 second increments at 50% power and stirring until melted. Add cornstarch and mix well. A dough like clay will begin to form. Mix until evenly combined.
3. Place candy clay onto a piece of plastic wrap and flatten. Wrap with plastic wrap and set aside to cool.
4. Knead candy clay until soft and smooth. Use a rolling pin dusted with cornstarch to roll the clay ⅛" thick. use a round cutter to create moon like shapes, and cut the moon i half to make a shark fin. Repeat until you have 24 shark fins made.
5. Fit a piping bag with a 1M decorating tip. Spread ½ cup of white frosting along one side of the bag. Tint the remaining frosting with blue food coloring. Frost each cupcake with a thin layer of blue frosting. Place remaining blue frosting into the piping bag.
6. Press one shark fin into each cupcake in the center. Pipe icing around the fin to look like water. Repeat until all 24 cupcakes are frosted.

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