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Shark Week Treats: Shark Cupcakes Recipe
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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

  • 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 cornstarch 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 i 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.