Shark Lollipops for Shark Week!

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Use our clever candy-making trick to create these eye-catching and tasty shark lollipops! Perfect for shark week!

Use our clever candy-making trick to create these eye-catching and tasty shark lollipops! Perfect for shark week!

Homemade Shark Candy

It’s almost Shark Week and my daughter and her friends are so excited (it will be their first year watching), so I thought I’d contribute to the fun with some fun Shark themed recipes. Between our Shark OREOs and these Shark Lollipops, the kids are going to have a blast!

Honestly, I am still shocked at how easy these shark lollipops were to make!

I’ve avoided making homemade lollipops forever – I assumed it would be messy and difficult.

However, a simple candy-making hack proved me wrong!

Instead of making hard candy from scratch, we melted Jolly Ranchers! This recipe turned out to be super easy and (in my opinion) a lot more safe than trying to handle hot liquid candy.

Here’s the quick breakdown:

  1. Melt some Jolly Ranchers on a cookie sheet
  2. Add on some edible decorations
  3. Wait for your homemade lollipops to cool

That’s it! (But we have full step by step directions a little bit further in the post too, so you’ll be sure to get it right the first time!)

After you make these super simple shark lollipops you’re going to be looking for opportunities to make your own custom lollipops, especially considering how impressive they look! My friend could not believe that I made these and I think she was convinced that I was some sort of kitchen genius… nope! I just love a great kitchen hack!

These shark lollipops are perfect for Shark Week, but they would also work for a Finding Nemo theme or A Shark Tale movie night. Swap out the scary shark for gummy fish if you prefer (or if you’re having a hard time finding them).

I hope your kids love these super simple shark lollipops as much as mine did – and be sure to Pin this recipe for your future Shark snack planning!

~~~ Jennifer

Use our clever candy-making trick to create these eye-catching and tasty shark lollipops! Perfect for shark week!

Shark Lollipops Ingredients

Tip: this recipe makes 6 lollipops. Double or triple the recipe as needed.

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Use our clever candy-making trick to create these eye-catching and tasty shark lollipops! Perfect for shark week!

How to Make Shark Lollipops

1. Preheat oven to 275°F and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper or non-stick silicone mats.

TIP: These silicone baking mats are one of our absolute favorite baking tools! They’re washable and re-usable, so you get to use them over and over (no paper waste!) and your baked goods or homemade candy pops right off them!

2. Unwrap the Airhead candy and cut thin pieces, about 2 inches long to resemble sea weed.

shark lollipop ingredients

3. On your prepared baking sheet, place 3 unwrapped Jolly Rancher candies in a rectangle shape, making sure they touch. Repeat this with all the candies. (Make sure to leave space to add the sucker stick)

melting Jolly Ranchers to make lollipops

4. Place the Jolly Rancher candies in the oven for about 4-5 minutes. Make sure to keep a close eye on them because you want to take them out just after they melt together.

Use our clever candy-making trick to create these eye-catching and tasty shark lollipops! Perfect for shark week!

5. Remove them from the oven and place a sucker stick on each one.

6. Let them set up for a few minutes until they aren’t hot but still tacky, then put 3-4 pieces of the sea weed and a shark on each one.

 

Be sure to pin our homemade shark lollipop recipe on Pinterest:

Use our clever candy-making trick to create these eye-catching and tasty shark lollipops! Perfect for shark week!

Grab your free printable for our shark lollipops recipe:

Yield: 6 lollipops

Shark Lollipops

Use our clever candy-making trick to create these eye-catching and tasty shark lollipops! Perfect for shark week!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Additional Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes

Ingredients

  • 18 Jolly Ranchers, blue
  • Airheads Candy, blue, red, orange, and green
  • 6 Gummy Sharks
  • 6 Sucker Sticks

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 275 degrees.

2. Unwrap the Airhead candy and cut thin pieces, about 2 inches long to resemble sea weed.

3. On a parchment lined baking sheet, place 3 unwrapped Jolly Rancher candies above each other making sure they touch. Repeat this with all the candies. (Make sure to leave space to add the sucker stick)

4. Place the Jolly Rancher candies in the oven for about 4-5 minutes. Make sure to keep a close eye on them because you want to take them out just after they melt together.

5. Remove them from the oven and place a sucker stick on each one.

6. Let them set up for a few minutes until they aren’t hot but still tacky, then put 3-4 pieces of the sea weed and a shark on each one.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

6

Serving Size:

1

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 129Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 11mgCarbohydrates: 32gFiber: 1gSugar: 21gProtein: 0g

Are your kids excited for Shark week? Be sure to check out some of our other fun Shark-themed recipes, like our chocolate-covered Baby Shark OREOs or our Mermaid Smoothie Bowl. (Just call it a Shark Smoothie bowl…)

 

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