To celebrate Shark Week this year, we put together a super simple tutorial on how to make the easiest shark cookies with ring buoys. This is a perfect activity for all ages and all cookie decorating skill levels because it’s a very simple design with only a few icing colors needed. We even have a printable shark and life preserver cutout template for you linked below in case you don’t have a shark-shaped cookie cutter.
Directions:
1. Bake your cookies, cool completely, and make your base icing.
2. Make your 3 icing colors (white, red, grey) - all flood consistency (watch the video to see what I prefer for my flood), bag them.
3. Trim your piping bags (see video for proper technique)
4. Scratch a smaller circle onto your round cookie to create a guide for where you want to stop and end your white flood layer for your ring buoy.
5. Create a bit of a red base for the shark’s mouth by using a brush or your finger to “brush” on the red icing.
6. Flood the shark grey.
7. Add the black pearl sprinkle to the shark as an eye. Optionally, you can wait for the shark to dry completely before using an edible marker to add the eye, OR wait for it to dry at least 1 hr uncovered if you’re going to make the eye with black icing.
8. Using the tip of your scribe or toothpick, gently transfer a bit of white icing from the bag to the mouth opening to create “teeth” Set shark aside to crust over, approx. 1 hour
9. Finish off your ring buoy by adding red accents to alternating parts of the buoy!
After icing your shark cookies you can let them dry at room temperature or to speed up the process you can use a dehydrator. If you can resist eating them for long enough then the icing should finish setting in about an hour.
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