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Ingredients
For the cake: Use a boxed cake mix of your favorite flavor, maybe easter themed carrot cake, vanilla cake, yellow cake, almond cake, or chocolate cake with water, eggs, and vegetable oil. But you can also make the cake from scratch by following a simple and basic vanilla sponge cake recipe. This shortcut method allows you to spend more time and have fun with your kids decorating. To decorate: Whipping cream, sugar, confectioner’s sugar, and vanilla extract make the frosting. You can use a storebought container of vanilla frosting too. Use shredded coconuts for a fur-like texture and jelly beans for the eyes and nose. Other optional ingredients: Non-edible Easter grass or Shredded and sweetened coconut with three drops of green color. Pink construction paper for bunny ears. See the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements. This easter bunny cake is inspired by Betty Crockers Bunny Cake Template.
Step-by-step instructions
Bake the cake
To make the bunny a little bigger, I have baked one single cake in a 10-inch round pan using one box of Betty Crocker Super Moist Vanilla Cake Mix. (Feel free to use your family’s favorite flavor) Bake the cake using the box mix and the ingredients of water, vegetable oil, and eggs called for in the box mix. Let the cake cool down completely.
Prepare the frosting
In a large bowl, pour heavy cream and whisk until it thickens. Add sugar, confectioners sugar, and vanilla extract and continue to whisk till it becomes smooth and you get stiff peaks (when the whisk is raised, the cream should stand up straight). You can also use store-bought vanilla frosting.
How do you make an easter bunny cake (edible rabbit)?
Now cut the cake in half and put the halves together using the frosting to form the bunny’s body. Place the cake with a cut edge on a cake tray or serving plate. Cut out a notch about ⅓ way up on one end of the body to form the head of the bunny. Attach the cutout piece to the other end using a toothpick to create the bunny’s tail.
How to decorate an easter cake?
Once you assemble the cake, frost the cake using the whipped cream frosting. Sprinkle-sweetened coconut flakes.
How to make bunny ears?
Draw bunny ears using a pencil on pink construction paper (start with a rectangle of approx 4 inch x 1 ¾ inch) for each ear and fold it as shown in the template below. Place these ears in the notch and press so that it penetrates the frosting applied in the notch.
Bunnies’ eyes and nose
Use jelly beans to form the eyes and nose of the bunny. Again, these will stay in place when pressed slightly into the frosting.
Decoration (optional)
Now, surround the bunny with grass. You can either use non-edible easter grass or mix 1 cup of coconut with three drops of green color and surround it around the bunny, and you are done. If desired, you can add extra jelly beans to denote ’easter eggs.’ Just before you are ready to serve, remove toothpicks, easter grass, and construction paper.
Make ahead Instructions
You can bake the cake, wrap it using plastic or aluminum foil, and place it in the refrigerator for two days. Decoration can be done the day you are ready to serve. Any leftovers can be stored in an airtight container for up to 2 days.
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