Clam Shell Cookies are a delicious and quick way to create the perfect dessert for an under the sea or mermaid party. Scroll below to learn how to make clam shell cookies and get a printable recipe .
Move over unicorns, mermaids are moving in and boy are they beautiful! From an under the sea party to miss little mermaid herself, hosting a mermaid themed party is a blast. These would look so cute sitting by the pool that we installed this year too!
Easy to put together, this clam cookie dessert, complete with little pearl, combines some of the easiest ingredients. They are so simple to put together that its hard to call it a recipe at all!
Lets get started on those cookies!
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Clam Shell Cookies
Before you get started you need a few things.
List of ingredients are below, but make sure you have those sixlets/sprinkles and also star tip
before you get started! I put links to all the amazon items so you can easily find!
- 48 Nilla Wafers
- Food dyes of choice
(we used pink, teal, blue and purple) - 1/2 cup butter
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-3 Tablespoons cream
- 24 White/pastel sixlets or large pearl sprinkles
(we used pink, teal, blue and purple)
or 
Wilton 418-1703 Round Star Icing Tip Set,
Sixlets – Pastel Color Assortment (2 lbWilton Disposable 16-Inch Decorating Bags, 12 PackWilton Color Right Performance Color System, 601-6200Wilton Sugar Pearls, White, 5 OzNilla Wafer, 11 oz
with a star tip
(you can do these one at a time and just swap out the bag each time).
- 48 Nilla cupcakes
- Food dyes of choice we used pink, teal, blue and purple
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 cups icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-3 Tablespoons cream
- 24 White sixlets or large pearl sprinkles
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To make the frosting, combine the butter, sugar and vanilla extract.
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Add the cream until you reach your desired consistency.
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Portion out into 4 bowls. Dye each bowl a different color using the food dye.
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Portion each color into a piping bag with a star tip (you can do these one at a time and just swap out the bag each time).
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Swirl frosting onto 6 cookies, then swap out colors if doing a variety of colors.
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Place 1 sixlet or pearl candy in the front of each frosting swirl.
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Sandwich a second cookie on each clam - however, you need to angle it so that the top cookie is touching the plate and you can clearly see the pearl.
Looking for another great idea for your mermaid party? Make your own chocolate covered mermaid rice krispie treats perfect for a gorgeous under the sea mermaid party or really just to put a surprisingly easy treat on the platter. Scroll below to get the recipe and what we used to create these adorable mermaid pops.
