Captain, Captain, there are sharks afin! This weekend my nieces visited and we worked together on a great cupcake project.  Shark Attack cupcakes.  We started off with a basic vanilla cake recipe and then added some red food coloring to make the cake look gory like blooooooooood…    Ewwwwwwwwwww.  And, scaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrry! For the frosting we added blue to some buttercream (confectioners sugar, unsalted butter and heavy whipping cream).  For the fins, we used oreo cookie sides, broken in half.  We dipped the cookie halves in melted white chocolate, tinted with black gel color (hint...

Giant Mardi Gras cupcake baked for my nieces 1st Birthday