Friday, January 23, 2009

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

Next week is Vincent's 5th birthday, so we are having his party tomorrow. I decided to make some shark cupcakes for the party.

I started with these ingredients (except the swedish fish--I ended up not making the fish cupcakes. Too tired)
First I shaped the Twinkies into the body of the shark. I cut the chocolate wafer cookies in half for the fins. They were so delicate I broke many of them and had to keep cutting.

I assembled them onto the cupcake. I made a slit in the back of the twinkie to put the fin in. I then stuck in the freezer for a while.

This was the hardest part! I had to dip them in slightly melted gray frosting (I used a can of frosting and colored with black icing dye). The first couple dipped fine, but then I had a difficult time trying to get the entire thing into the cup I was using. The book I got this idea out of only made 3. I was making 15. In retrospect I needed a deeper cup and double the amount of frosting (alot of which would have been wasted). It was an incredible mess and time consuming.
The rest was fine. I used red fruit leather cut into an oval for the mouth. I piped white frosting for the teeth (that part was fun and much quicker than I was expecting). I used an upside down mini chocolate chip for the eyes and piped some black frosting for the gills (or ribs as Vinnie kept calling them).

I got the idea out of an awesome book called "Hello Cupcake". There are tons of other fun ideas I can't wait to try!

12 comments:

Unknown said...

No. WAY! Those are awesome! They really are incredible, well done!

Suzanne said...

You never cease to amaze me!

Katie said...

Seriously, those are just crazy! When it comes to food and baking I just don't have the patience. You should have seen the birthday cake I made my husband. I didn't wait for the cake to cool before I frosted it so it was all leaky.

Anonymous said...

Those are so cool!!! The boys must be freaking out over them.

Ash said...

Are you kidding me? Those are fantastic!

Maybe if the whole doctor thing doesn't pan out, you could open a bakery, because I seriously would pay someone else a lot of money to do that.

Andrea said...

Those are incredible. . . I have the Jaws theme-song running through my head right now:) I gotta get that cupcake book. . . so fun to make unique cakes/cupcakes!

Happy Birthday Vincent!

Anonymous said...

Those are adorable! Huh, I used to do stuff like that when my kids were younger ... I'll either need to borrow kids, or wait for grand-babies.

My daughter thought these were cool too. Maybe enough to get her thinking about children so she can make them ... nah, probably not *smile*

Laura said...

I think I may be falling in love with you....love a great cupcake!

Shawna said...

These are totally amazing! wow!

Cynthia said...

AMAZING!

Michele R said...

Those turned out awesome. I wonder if my 2nd grader is too old for them? Nah--my 5th grader would like them too. Where do you find black icing dye?

Michelle said...

Michele- I used Wiltons icing color paste. They come in tons of colors and work much better than food coloring. I get them at Michaels arts and crafts store, but I am sure any cake decorating place would have them