Hi everyone! Welcome to our shark edition
of the MOAS Summer Baking Series. We are
celebrating Shark Week today. Shark Week is one of my
favorite weeks of the year. It's so incredibly interesting and
who doesn't want to celebrate the beauty
and magnificence
of sharks. They're awesome!
So before we get started and we go
through our ingredients today I wanted
to remind you that the Museum of Arts
and Sciences currently has a pretty
incredible exhibit available to you
through September 6th and it's called
Beneath
the Waves of Wonder. Now
the exhibit celebrates the great
diversity of our ocean using a variety of specimens from the
MOAS permanent collection of corals, mollusks,
and other wonderful
ocean life. You'll discover unique and
stunning shells
found from all over the world.
So don't forget to check out that
exhibit. We hope to see you come
through the Museum soon.
But until then let's bake!
Let's go through the ingredients that we
need to make our shark attack
cupcakes today. These are the ingredients
that you're going to need to make our
shark attack cupcakes.
You'll need your box of cake mix and
along with your box of cake mix you'll
need
three eggs, a half a cup of vegetable oil,
one full cup of water, then you're going
to need your icing,
you'll need your black food coloring,
your blue food coloring, then you're
gonna need
your strawberry jelly for the attack
portion of our cupcake. We'll
need white baking chips which we're
gonna melt down
and make little shark fins out of and
then i'm gonna be adding almond extract
to my cake
and my icing just because that's the
flavor that I prefer.
Also keep an eye out for our fun shark
fact board.
We'll be having random facts throughout
the video,
and this one is that sharks do not have
any bones in their bod.y
They are made up of a cartilage
which is similar to that of our ears
and the tips of our nose. We're gonna get
started on the
cake mix for our cupcakes. In the
meantime I have the oven
heating up to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. So you're going to
want to preset your oven
to whatever it actually says on the cake
box. Mine says 350. So that's where we're at.
We're going to mix in the cake mix
with our water,
our oil,
and our three eggs,
and in the meantime, we'll move on to our
next shark fact
which is sharks do not have the ability
to swim backwards
and that's because their fins are so
stiff. So who knew?? We're gonna go ahead and mix
up our cake mix.
Okay, here we are. We are going to be
filling our cupcake liners with our
cupcake batter.
This takes a lot of concentration but
our next shark fact is that sharks can
grow
up to 30,000 teeth in their lifetime. That's insane.
Their teeth grow in many many rows
and as one row
grows large and they fall out the other
row just kind of moves forward.
So it's kind of like they have a teeth
conveyor belt.
Pretty interesting. So we're going to go
ahead and slide these into the oven
and get them baking and in the meantime
we're going to be working on our
shark fin, our chocolate shark fins, and
we'll go from there.
Let's get these in the oven.
These are going to bake for 14 to 20
minutes.
I'm gonna check them in about 15 and
we'll cook them a little bit longer if
we need to. Alright, see you guys in a
little bit.
So while i'm waiting for the cupcakes to
bake i'm going to go ahead
and prep for my shark fins which are
going to be the cupcake topper.
And I just came up with the idea,
and it's not my original idea, I've seen
it done before, but I'm going to draw my
shark fins
on my parchment paper so that i have a
guide
as to piping them so that they have the
shape
that I want. So grab your parchment paper
and draw out your shark fins.
Our cupcakes just came out of the oven
they smell awesome.
It took about 20 minutes to bake but
I'm gonna let them cool and while
they're cooling we're going to make our
shark fins
and we're going to mix up our icing. Here
we go!
We're going to get started on our shark
fins which are going to top
our cupcakes so grab your white baking
chips
and get a microwavable bowl. We're just
going to pour
our baking chips in the bowl there
and we're going to microwave them a
little bit at a time
just to melt them and after they're
melted we're going to add a little bit
of color to them to get them that gray
shark fin color
and then we're going to be piping them
onto our parchment paper.
Okay we've melted our chocolate
so now we're going to add
a couple of drops of the black
food coloring to give it a grayish color
so that we can make our shark fins.
So here I have my black food coloring
and i'm just going to give it a couple
of drops. Better to add a little bit now and be
able to add to it to get your desired color than to add
way too much at the beginning. So we're just going to
do a couple of drops to start.
And I bet you're wondering what sound a
shark makes.
Well, in our next fun fact
they don't make any sound. Sharks in fact
do not have any vocal cords,
so we're missing out.
But if sharks could make a sound
I really do wonder what they would sound
like.
Alright, so then we're gonna take
our melted chocolate and we're gonna put
it into our ziploc
bag or our piping bag and then we're
going to draw on the little shark fins
that we drew on our parchment paper
then we're going to let those cool.
I've never done this before so this
could be a complete
disaster. We're gonna hope not though.
Okay as you can see this has been a
disaster with the piping bag.
So I've gone to just a regular Ziploc
bag
and we're gonna....
we're gonna hope that that works better
so we're just gonna do the best we can.
Now if you want to avoid this step
altogether you can just buy
little paper shark fins that you stick
into the top of your cupcake.
It's a lot easier but I wanted to
challenge myself
and try something that i've not tried
before.
So I'm pretty proud of how these have
come out.
Now i'm just going to let them dry
and then we will come back to them after
we've gotten our icing all put together.
Now that we have our shark fin
chocolates hardening
we're going to go ahead and make our
blue ocean water frosting.
So you'll just take the frosting that
you purchased pre-made
just gonna pour it all into a bowl.
Then we're gonna take our blue food
coloring
and turn our frosting blue.
Speaking of water some sharks can live
in fresh
and salt water and one that you can see
at the Museum
is a bull shark. So be careful if you're
swimming in
any rivers that are fresh water that
doesn't mean you're necessarily safe
from a shark. Now we're going to move on
to the attack
portion of our cupcakes so you'll just
need
like the tip of a wooden spoon or a
small spoon or something because we're
going to take out
a little bit of the top of each cupcake.
We're going to do that to each cupcake
because that's where we're going to
insert our strawberry jelly.
Make sure you don't poke the hole all
the way through to the bottom of the
cupcake
because then you'll have jelly going
through
all the way. Meanwhile while we're poking through top
of each cupcake, while we're creating our shark attacks,
did you know that a shark can be found
in
every ocean on the planet? Even the arctic ocean? The most common
shark found in the arctic ocean
is the Greenland shark.
Okay so i've created all of my little
places to insert our strawberry jelly.
So I knew I was gonna have
to put these inside the cupcake so I got
a squeeze one just so it would be
easier.
But I don't know if that'll be the case
because
it's not really a round squeeze.
Okay, now that we have our strawberry
jelly in place
we are going to take our
our ocean water icing and we are going
to
get our cupcakes iced.
There's my last cupcake. Like I said the
icing does not have to be perfect
because it's supposed to look like water
and
water can be wild and funky
and free. So these are our cupcakes and
now we're going to see if our chocolate
fins are ready to rock and roll.
Now that we have our cupcakes iced
let's see if we can't get our shark fins
off of the parchment paper and onto the
top of our cupcakes.
It worked! Guys that was so easy!
So then you're just going to take your
cupcake and your shark fin
you're just going to place it on top.
Look how cool it is!
Here's our final product. I think they
turned out awesome.
I'm gonna open one up and see...
and our last little fact was
that sharks can move their top and
bottom jaw which would make eating this cupcake a
lot easier for them than for us.
And there's our shark attack!
Well, that's it for today. I hope that you
guys enjoyed making
shark attack cupcakes with me. I hope
that you will
tune in to Shark Week and learn a lot of
interesting fun
facts about sharks. They're extremely
magnificent creatures.
And be sure to visit MOAS and
take a look at our Beneath the Waves of
Wonder exhibit where you can learn a lot of
really interesting facts about
not only sharks but other marine life
and creatures. If you chose to bake along
with me today
as always please take a photo and tag us
on Facebook at
MOASDaytona. We'd love to see who's
baking with us
and again I appreciate all of your
support.
Thank you for following the Museum
during these uncertain times. We hope
that you've enjoyed
baking along with us yet again and we'll
see you next time!
