bunny cake

This homemade vanilla cake recipe at the base is a breeze to stir together so you can focus on dressing it up in an Easter bunny &quot;costume.&quot;

Bunny Cake

milk

vanilla extract

cake flour (or 1 cup all-purpose flour)

sugar

baking powder

Salt

butter

butter (softened, 1 stick)

heavy cream

salt (optional)

coconut

jelly bean (for bunny's nose)

Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8-inch round cake pan and line with parchment paper. Grease parchment paper and flour pan.

In a small bowl, mix milk, vanilla, and egg whites together. Set aside. In a standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt on low speed until combined. Add butter, one piece at a time, and mix until only pea-sized pieces remain, about 1 minute.

To the mixing bowl, add half of the milk mixture and increase speed to medium-high. Beat until the mixture is light and fluffy, about 30 seconds. Add remaining milk mixture and beat on medium-low speed until incorporated, about 15 seconds. Do not over mix. Give the batter a final stir by hand.

Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth the top using a rubber spatula. Bake until top is light golden and a wooden toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 20 to 25 minutes.  Rotate pan halfway through to ensure even baking.

Cool cake in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan and allow to cool completely before frosting, about 2 hours.

To make the cake:

In a standing mixer fit with the paddle attachment on medium-high speed, cream butter until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes.

Reduce mixer speed to low. Add 2 cups powdered sugar, cream, vanilla, and salt (if using). Continue mixing 2 to 3 minutes longer. If the frosting seems too soft, add the remaining powdered sugar 1 tablespoon at a time. Cover and refrigerate the frosting until ready for use.

To make the buttercream frosting:

Cut cake in half. Using prepared buttercream frosting, frost the top of one half of the layers. Place other layer on top and stand cake on serving platter to form the bunny cake&#039;s body. Cut a notch about 1/3 of the way up on one side to form the bunny cake&#039;s neck and head. Using frosting, attach removed pieces to opposite end of the notch to form the bunny&#039;s tail.

Frost outside of the cake with remaining buttercream frosting, rounding out the sides of the body. Sprinkle the bunny with coconut flakes, gently pressing in coconut so it sticks to the sides.

Using construction paper or another thick type of paper, cut 2 4-inch by 1 3/4-inch bunny ears (use watercolors to paint them if desired). Cover ends of ears with plastic food wrap and insert in the top of the notch on the cake. Insert jelly bean for bunny&#039;s nose.

To assemble the bunny cake:

This is an easy and adorable colorful Easter Bunny Butt Cake that makes a memorable Easter cake, a festive centerpiece, and a fun way to celebrate spring! 

Bunny Butt Cake

all-purpose flour

salt

baking soda

Large eggs (slightly warm)

vegetable oil

buttermilk (slightly warm)

unsalted butter (melted)

unsalted butter (softened)

white fondant

green food coloring

pink food coloring

jelly beans

Preheat the oven to 335ºF (168ºC) and prepare one 7-inch hemisphere-shaped cake pan or a 2-quart ovenproof bowl of equivalent size, with cake goop or another pan release.

Measure out all of the ingredients using a digital kitchen scale. Pro-tip: You can mix the wet and dry ingredients separately for a finer texture, or just measure and add directly into the bowl of your stand mixer for fewer dishes.

In a large bowl, combine and mix together the buttermilk, butter, oil, eggs, and vanilla. The wet ingredients should all be slightly warm.

Combine the flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, and baking powder in the bowl of your stand mixer with the paddle attachment on low speed.

While the mixer is on low speed, pour the wet ingredients slowly into the dry ingredients.

Mix the batter on medium speed and mix for 1 minute until the batter is combined and looks like pancake batter. Scrape the sides of the bowl to make sure all of the ingredients are combined.

Pour cake batter into the dome cake pan and then fill 6 prepared muffin cups with the remaining batter.

Bake the cupcakes in the same oven as the cake, but set a time to remove them at 12-15 minutes.

Use an empty 6-inch cake pan as a stabilizer for your dome pan while it is baking. Bake the cake for 40-50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Allow the cake to cool for 10 minutes and flip it out onto a wire rack. Pro-tip: If you plan to frost and decorate the cake on the same day, you can place the cakes into the freezer unwrapped for about an hour or until they are cold (but not frozen). If you plan to decorate your cake at a later date, then you will wrap the cakes in plastic wrap first before freezing them.

Easy Vanilla Cake

Place the egg whites and the powdered sugar in the bowl of your stand mixer. Use the whip attachment and combine the ingredients on low speed, and then whip them on high for 4-5 minutes (until shiny) to dissolve the powdered sugar.

Then, add the salt and the vanilla extract. 

Add in the softened butter piece-by-piece, and whip it with the whisk attachment to combine. It will look curdled at first. This is normal. It will also look pretty yellow, keep whipping.

Whip it on high speed with the whisk attachment for 8-10 minutes until the buttercream is white, light, and shiny. If it tastes like sweet ice cream, then it&#39;s ready!

Finally, switch to a paddle attachment and mix the buttercream on low speed for up to 18-20 minutes to make the buttercream ultra smooth and remove any air bubbles.

Color about 2 cups of buttercream green for the grass and prepare a piping bag with a grass tip.

Color about 2 cups of buttercream pink for the body of the bunny, or leave it white if you prefer.

Easy Buttercream Frosting

Make the ears and feet a day ahead so that they have time to dry, or you can buy a cute little set already made. 

Color about 2 ounces of white fondant with pink food coloring for the details in the ears and feet.

Roll the white and pink fondant very thin on a surface prepared with cornstarch to avoid sticking.

While the fondant surface dries slightly, trace ears and feet shapes on a piece of paper and cut them out. This is to make a guide for your blade while cutting out the shapes.

Cut all of the white and pink shapes out with a sharp blade.

Using a brush moistened with water, brush the pink bits and stick them to the white bunny&#39;s feet and ears.

Bend over one ear and lay all of the cutouts on a tray lined with parchment paper to dry. The ears need extra dry time to stand up.

Preparing the fondant bunny feet and ears

Crumble the cupcakes in a large bowl.

Add about 1/2 cup of buttercream to the crumbs and mix them together until it forms a dough. You can use another tablespoon of the buttercream if the dough is still crumbly.

Using your hands, create one big cake ball of dough for the tail and 2 smaller balls for the feet. I elongated the shape of the feet so they are a little more rabbit-like and so they match the fondant feet.

Roll the tail ball and feet in the shredded coconut.

Let the cake dough balls set up in the fridge for 10 minutes while you assemble the bunny.

Making the cake pop dough tail and feet

Trim the bunny cake so that the dome can sit level and trim the cake board to fit evenly with the cake. 

On a large round cake board or platter, place the baked domed cake flat side down in the center.

Spread a generous layer of easy buttercream evenly over the cake.

Press the shredded coconut onto the side of the cake until fully covered.

Add two wooden skewers to the top-back of the dome cake and add the tail. 

Using a dollop of buttercream, stick the bunny feet in the desired locations.

Pipe the green grass buttercream around the bottom edge of the bunny&#39;s body and fill in the remaining space on the platter.

Use another dollop of buttercream on the foot pads and stick the bottoms of bunny feet with the toes facing down.

Next, add the fondant ears on the front of the bunny with a dollop of buttercream.

Sprinkle colorful jellybeans or chocolate eggs around in the &quot;grass&quot;.

Assembling the Bunny Butt Cake

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