Shark Week Cookie Cake

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the kitchen… cue the jaws theme… it’s Shark Week, baby, and this gluten-free cookie cake is making a serious splash! Equal parts chewy, chocolatey, and fintastically festive, this dessert is the ultimate treat for anyone who loves sharks, cookies, and baked goods worthy of a feeding frenzy.

Now, while this cake won’t circle you menacingly in open water, it will disappear quickly if left unattended. Much like the Great White shark, which can detect a single drop of blood in 25 gallons of water, I can detect a cookie cake within a 5-mile radius. True story. And speaking of shark facts: did you know some sharks can live over 400 years? This cookie cake will last maybe 10 minutes. Max. Gone faster than a Mako shark can swim (which, if you didn’t know, is 46 mph…and now you do). With enough gluten-free goodness to satisfy even the pickiest apex predator, this is one Shark Week snack you’ll definitely want to sink your teeth into. So grab your spatula, cue up the documentaries, and let’s dive in: because this cookie cake is jaw-droppingly good.

Just a girl standing in front of a cookie cake, asking it not to bite back.

Ready to dive in? Below you’ll find a step-by-step photo gallery that’ll walk you through turning a humble cookie cake into the apex predator of the dessert table. From frosting waves to shark teeth, I’m showing you how to make jaws drop, literally. You’ll need:

  • Gel dyes in red, blue, dark gray, light gray, and black
  • A food safe pen to draw shark outline (if you’d like)
  • Piping tips: #5, #3, #2, 1M
Start by divvying up your frosting…this is truly the hardest part, I promise!
Use the food-safe pen to outline your shark’s mouth, light gray belly, and dark gray face.
Use a #5 round tip and pipe red for the mouth, going back and forth in horizontal lines.
Come in with the white for the teeth using a #2 round tip. Simply draw little triangles and fill them in.
Use a #3 tip to draw in the belly in light gray.
Use a #3 tip in dark gray for the rest of the body and a #2 tip to draw on the eyes.
I used the food pen to draw out my letters before tracing over them with the red frosting.
To finish, add those blue waves! I used a 1M tip to pipe my shell border.
No chum required to make this bad boy surface!

Recipe and Instructions

Shark Week Cookie Cake

  • Servings: 8
  • Difficulty: Beginner
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A Shark Week treat everyone will love!

Greek yogurt can be replaced with cream cheese, but it will alter macros significantly. I have not tested this recipe with any other protein powders, so I recommend a whey-based protein.

Ingredients

COOKIE CAKE
*90 g (3/4 cup) oat flour
*60 g (1/2 cup) Quest vanilla milkshake protein powder
*32 g (1/4 cup) PBFit peanut butter powder
*1 tsp baking powder
*1 tsp vanilla extract
*120 g (1/2 cup) unsweetened applesauce
*28 g (2 tbs) peanut butter (I like American Dream Nut Butter in Breanne’s Blend flavors)
*1/4 cup Fairlife fat free milk
*42 g Lily’s sugar free chocolate chip

FROSTING
*113 g (1/2 cup) fat free Greek yogurt, strained overnight
*4 ounces 1/3 the fat cream cheese
*6 ounces Lakanto monkfruit
*2 ounces Quest vanilla milkshake protein powder
*2 TBS milk
*1/2 TBS vanilla
*1/8 tsp citric acid if you like less sweet frosting

Directions

  1. Grease a 9″ pie pan with cooking spray.
  2. Preheat oven to 350.
  3. In a large bowl, mix together oat flour, protein powder, peanut butter powder, and baking powder.
  4. Stir in applesauce, yogurt, vanilla, and milk before folding in chocolate chips.
  5. Bake for 15 minutes until golden; remove to cool while making frosting.
  6. Mix together cream cheese and yogurt for 3-4 minutes.
  7. Add in vanilla, monkfruit, protein powder, and milk, mixing well.
  8. Divide frosting so you have: 1 bowl red, 1 bowl light gray, 1 bowl dark gray, 1 bowl black, 1 bowl blue, and 1 bowl white.
  9. Place light gray, dark gray, and black frosting into piping bags with #3 round tip; place red in piping bag with #5 tip, white in piping bag with #2 round tip, and place blue in frosting bag with 1M tip.
  10. Follow along with video or photos to decorate your shark!
  11. Keep covered in fridge until serving.

Nutrition

Macros
8 servings
198 cal/16.2 c/5.9 f/20.1 p/4.5 g sugar per slice
You’re gonna need a bigger plate.
This cake was actually inspired by my shark mug, Sharkira, that I picked up at the ABQ BioPark gift shop.
Circling the dessert table like it’s chum time.

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