Place the long curved pieces at the front of the peach ring for flippers. Place the turtle head in front of the peach ring.Ĭut another spearmint leaf in half, through the sides. Use your scissors to expose a sticky spot on each side of the large end of a spearmint leaf, then press a candy eye onto each side. Yep, it’s that easy!įor the sea turtle, place a peach ring candy slightly to one side of center on the cupcake.Ĭut off the small end of a spearmint leaf candy. Place the eyes above the crab’s body, and you’re done. Press candy eyes into the cut side of each half. Using clean shears, cut off 2 ends of another cherry slice.Ĭut a triangle out of each end to give you the crab claws. To make the crab, place a candy cherry slice toward the front of a cupcake. You can also use buttercream instead of canned frosting if you’d like.
I used bright blue food coloring in my frosting. The candy aisle of most grocery stores will have all the gummy candies needed to create these underwater friends, and you can snag candy eyes at stores or online.