Under the Sea Graham Crackers
This is the cutest kid friendly recipe! Your kids will be excited to make these under the sea graham crackers. They are the perfect edible craft for an under the sea theme week.
Servings: 12 servings
Equipment
Ingredients
- Graham crackers
- Graham cracker crumbs in bowl
- Gold fish crackers
- White ball sprinkles
- Green and red long sprinkles or jimmies
- Round red sprinkles
Blue buttercream
- ½ cup (113g) butter room temperature, 1 stick
- ½ cup vegetable shortening can use butter instead
- 2 cups (227g) powdered sugar
- teal or blue food coloring
Instructions
Blue Buttercream
- In a mixing bowl, combine the room temperature butter and shortening, beat using an electric mixer for 2 minutes, until light and fluffy.1/2 cup (113g) butter, 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- Begin to add in the powdered sugar, about 1 cup at a time. Slowly beat the mixture until the powered sugar is incorporated. Continue this process, adding enough powdered sugar to make sure the frosting isn’t too wet.2 cups (227g) powdered sugar
- Add in your desired blue food coloring, mix by hand until the color is even.teal or blue food coloring
To assemble the under the sea graham crackers
- Take one graham cracker and using a spreader or butter knife, spread blue frosting on almost all of the cracker, but leave the very top of the graham cracker frosting free.Graham crackers
- Place the bottom of the frosted graham cracker into the bowl with graham cracker crumbs, covering just the bottom of the cracker with crumbs or ‘sand’. You can sprinkle extra crumbs on if needed.Graham cracker crumbs
- Add two goldfish crackers. Then give each goldfish 2 air bubbles, using the white ball sprinkles.Gold fish crackers, White ball sprinkles
- Optional decorations include seaweed and a crab. To make the seaweed use several long green sprinkles and arrange them to look like seaweed. To make the crab, use one red round sprinkle and several long red sprinkles as legs and arrange them to look like a crab.Green and red long sprinkles, Round red sprinkles
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Nutrition
Calories: 302kcal | Carbohydrates: 34g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 22mg | Sodium: 200mg | Potassium: 27mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 23g | Vitamin A: 235IU | Calcium: 20mg | Iron: 1mg