Shark Cupcakes

Ingredients

• Cupcakes:
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 cups white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 tablespoon raspberry extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup milk
• 6 drops blue food coloring
• Filling:
• 1/2 cup blueberries
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon cornstarch
• Frosting:
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 2 1/2 cups confectioners’ sugar
• 2 teaspoons strawberry extract
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
• 4 drops blue food coloring
• Blue wedge-shaped candies

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners.

Beat 1 cup butter and 2 cups white sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until creamy and smooth. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until just incorporated. Stir in raspberry extract. Gradually stir flour, alternating with milk, into creamed butter mixture until just combined; stir in 6 drops food coloring. Pour batter into prepared muffin cups, filling them 3/4 full.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

Place blueberries, 1/4 cup white sugar, and cornstarch in a saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature.

Cut a small hole in the top center of each cupcake. Pipe the blueberry filling mixture into the holes.

Place 1/2 cup butter in a bowl; beat confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, into butter using an electric mixer until just combined. Beat in strawberry extract, vanilla extract, and cream. Gently stir about 4 drops blue food coloring into frosting only until a blue-white effect is created. Pipe the frosting on top of each cupcake.

Cut the candies to look like a shark's fin. Place one fin on top of each cupcake.