Easter Bunny Cake

Name: Easter Bunny Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: Cooking spray; 1 box yellow cake mix, plus ingredients called for on box; 1 tub vanilla frosting; Blue food coloring; Assorted candies, for decorating bunny: 2 Necco wafers, cotton candy, licorice, rock candy or sprinkles, and pastel M&Ms

By Micah MortonUpdated: Apr 16, 2019

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Prep Time:

15 mins

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1 hr 40 mins

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This bunny cake is one of our all-time favorite Easter desserts! It's so much easier to make than it looks—no special pans required! Two round pans is all you need (you can even make a football and heart out of the same pans!). Here are a few tips to follow for the best Easter bunny cake ever.

Make sure your cakes are cooled.

Warm cakes fall apart when handling (not to mention, they'll melt your frosting) so make sure they are completely cool before assembling. We even like to freeze our for perfect cuts while trimming.

Make your frosting.

Buying frosting is easy, sure, but if you make your own frosting you can control how your cake turns out better. Use our Perfect Buttercream and thin with heavy cream until it's the perfect consistency to spread onto your cake. You'll love the results so much more, plus it will taste even better! You can make a homemade cake while you're at it too. 😉

Make it your own with a different cake flavor!

The best part about a bunny cake is that it can be whatever flavor you want! Make it chocolate or keep with the theme and make it carrot cake or strawberry!

Make it? Let us know how it went in the comment section below. And don't forget to give us a rating! 🌟

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Ingredients

Cooking spray
1
box yellow cake mix, plus ingredients called for on box
1
tub vanilla frosting
Blue food coloring
Assorted candies, for decorating bunny: 2 Necco wafers, cotton candy, licorice, rock candy or sprinkles, and pastel M&Ms

Directions

1. Step 1Preheat oven to 350º. Grease two 8" cake pans with cooking spray and line with parchment. Prepare cake mix according to package directions and divide batter among prepared pans. Bake until lightly golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 26 to 30 minutes. Let cool 15 minutes in pans, then invert cakes and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
2. Step 2Using a sharp paring knife, cut two ovals out of 1 cake, for ears. The remaining cake between the ears is the bunny's bowtie. (See picture below). Using frosting, attach both ears to top of second cake and bow tie to bottom of second cake.
3. Step 3In a small bowl, stir together 1/2 cup frosting and blue food coloring. Frost ears and face of cake with remaining vanilla frosting and frost bowtie with blue frosting.
4. Step 4Decorate the bunny’s face: Place two Necco wafers for the eyes, a gummy for the nose, and cotton candy and licorice rope for the whiskers. Sprinkle the ears with rock candy, sprinkles, or sanding sugar. Decorate bow tie with pastel M&Ms.