Movie Night Fun with Shark Tales, Cupcakes and Shark Juice Recipes

 

We love movie night at our house. This last week I think I went a bit overboard. I hope they don’t expect this every week. First I decided on the theme of the movie night! Shark Tales. Then I decided on the fun snacks. We had yummy shark cupcakes, Shark punch and a fun shark inspired popcorn trailmix treat. Here’s how you put it all together before you settle down with Shark Week or Shark Tales the movie! 

 

This may just be my favorite part of making movie night fun is making the yummy treats and following a theme. It’s just part of making movie night an adventure. I think I like the circle frosting on my cupcakes the most more like the ocean maybe? What do you think? The other way it looks like a snake! 

Shark Cupcake Ingredients:

1/2 C unsalted butter, room temp
2 egg whites
2 eggs
2 C flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 baking soda
3/4 C buttermilk
1 1/2 C sugar
1 tsp vanilla

Cupcake Directions:

-Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
-Line the cupcake tins with paper liners.
-Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda together in a bowl.
-Beat butter on high for 30 seconds.
-Add sugar and vanilla extract to the butter …. beating until well combined.
-Add egg whites, and then eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
-Alternate adding the flour mixture and buttermilk to the butter mixture, beating on low speed until everything is mixed together.
-Add 1/3 C flour mixture to the wet mixture followed by adding 1/3 C of the buttermilk; add 1/3 C flour mixture again then add 1/3 C buttermilk mix on low speed, add 1/3 C of flour and add the rest of 1/3 C of buttermilk mix in low speed until thoroughly blended.
-Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until an inserted cupcake comes out
clean.
-Allow to cool in the cupcake tin for 10 minutes.
-Remove the cupcakes from the cupcake tin and completely cool on a wire rack.

Frosting:

Frosting Ingredients:

1 C soft unsalted butter
4 + C powder sugar
4 TBSP heavy whipping cream
Blue gel food coloring
Citric Acid

Frosting Directions:

-Cream the butter and powder sugar until it looks light and creamy.
-If it doesn’t cream add several drops of the heavy whipping cream.
-Test to see if the frosting can form and hold a stiff peak.
-Add 1 TBSP citric acid…. mix well.
-If not add more powder sugar 1/2 C at a time.
-Test to make sure that the frosting can make and hold a stiff peak.
-Divide the frosting equally into two bowls…..first bowl remains white while the second bowl…add several drops of blue gel food coloring….mix well.

-Scoop the blue frosting into a pastry bag with a 13 inch round frosting tip…twist the open end of the pastry bag to push the frosting to the tip….Test to make sure that the frosting is as blue as you want it!
-Frost cupcakes from the outside edge to the center of the cupcake. Or you can do a side to side motion or make waves. Add swedish fish to the top!

and my Popcorn Mix recipe is:

2 bags Popped popcorn
1/2 cup peanuts
1/2 cup cashews
1/2 cup sunflowers
1/3 cup raisins
1/4 cup Swedish Fish

Mix well.

Shark Juice Recipe

1 bottle of blue punch
1 bottle of lemon lime soda
swedish fish

I froze my swedish fish so they would be cold in my drinks. Then I added 1/2 cup of lemon lime to 1/2 cup of blue punch to each child’s glass. You can also add them both together in a punch bowl if you’re serving a large crowd. Stir and serve. The kids loved their drinks!

My kids came home from school to this yummy spread and they were so excited to get to eating. Then watching the movie on the floor in the living room made it just so much fun! What movies do you like to watch with the kids? We love all the fun ones like Shark Tales, Shark Week, Finding Nemo, etc. This would go great with all of them.

Before you go check out my other yummy cupcakes!

• Gender Reveal Cupcakes
• Easter Basket Cupcakes
• Blueberry Pie Cupcakes
• Minion Cupcakes
• Sour Octopus Cupcakes

Thank you so much for stopping by! I’d love to see you over on our youtube or tiktok channel! Have a great week!