Best Ocean Cups Recipes

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Provided by Food Network Kitchen

Categories dessert

Time 20m

Yield 1 pudding cup

Number Of Ingredients 6

1 package vanilla instant pudding mix (plus required ingredients)
Blue gel food coloring
1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 glass or clear plastic cup
1 gummy ring, preferably white or blue
1 teddy bear-shaped graham cracker, such as Teddy Grahams

Steps:

Prepare the vanilla instant pudding according to the package instructions. Once the pudding has set, stir in enough blue food coloring to make the ocean layer.
Pour the graham cracker crumbs into a glass or plastic cup, reserving about 1 tablespoon on the side. Fill the cup with the blue pudding, leaving about 1 1/2 inches on top. Put a gummy ring around the bear-shaped graham cracker for a floatie, then place it on top of the ocean layer. Sprinkle the reserved crumbs on the side of the cup to create a beach effect.

Shark Sighting Pudding Cups image

Provided by Food Network Kitchen

Categories dessert

Time 20m

Yield 4 pudding cups

Number Of Ingredients 9

One 5.1-ounce package vanilla instant pudding mix (plus required ingredients)
Blue gel food coloring
4 purple chew candies, such as Now and Later
2 yellow chew candies, such as Now and Later
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
4 gummy candy rings, such as Gummy Lifesavers
4 graham cracker bears

Steps:

Prepare the pudding according to the package directions. Once the pudding has set, stir in enough blue food coloring to make the pudding light blue, 3 to 4 drops.
Place the purple and yellow chew candies in a small microwave-safe dish. Microwave until the chews are just softened, about 10 seconds. Use your hands to mix the chews together until they are a purple-gray color. Flatten the candy into four 2-inch squares and use kitchen shears to cut each into a shark fin. Dust the fins in confectioners' sugar and brush off any excess.
Whisk the heavy cream in a medium bowl until stiff peaks form, about 3 minutes.
Remove 1 tablespoon graham cracker crumbs and set aside. Divide the remaining crumbs between 4 clear cups. Add 1/2 cup of the pudding mixture to each cup. Sprinkle the reserved graham cracker crumbs on one side of each cup to mimic a strip of sand on the beach. Spread the whipped cream in a line just behind the sand to make it look like crashing waves. Stick a shark fin in the pudding water. Put a gummy ring on the pudding water and stick a graham cracker bear in the middle. Serve immediately.

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Provided by Eddie Jordan

Time 15m

Number Of Ingredients 6

4 clear plastic cups
1 ( 4 serving size) box blue gelatin, prepared
12 gummy sharks or gummy fish
4 vanilla wafers
1 small tub whipped topping
4 cocktail umbrellas

Steps:

1. Fill the plastic cups with prepared gelatin. Place gummy sharks or fish in the gelatin. Place the cups in the refrigerator to set.
2. When the gelatin has set, crush the vanilla wafers very fine and cover half of the gelatin top to represent the sand of a beach.
3. Add a spoonful of whipped topping on the other half to represent the white caps of the ocean.
4. Garnish each ocean cup with a cocktail umbrella