Easy Easter Bunny Cake
Use this cake decorating tutorial to make a quick, easy, cute, classic and traditional Easter bunny cake. All the details are created with white cream cheese frosting, gum drop candies and shredded coconut. No special tools or fondant needed. I will also share another simple design that uses Lindt chocolate bunnies as toppers.
Servings: 9 Slices
Calories: 858kcal
Ingredients
- 1 Carrot cake Dimensions: 8x3
- 4 cups Cream cheese frosting
- 4 cups Coconut Shredded or desiccated
- ½ cup Gum drop candies Various colors
- Gel food coloring Pink
Instructions
Classic coconut design
- Bake your cake and allow it to cool to room temperature.
- Fill and frost it in frosting.
- Cover the cake fully with shredded or desiccated coconut.
- To make the ears, cut out two ear shaped cardboard pieces and stick a popsicle stick or wooden skewer behind each ear. The cardboard ears should be the same size. Spread a thin later of frosting on each ear. Cover the center of the ears with pink shredded coconut and cover the edges of the ears with regular white coconut.
- Push these ears into the top.
- Now, make the eyes, nose, whiskers and mouth with colorful gum drop candies. Gum drop candies are really easy to cut with scissors and you can even flatten them with a rolling pin and you can also draw on them with edible markers. If they become too sticky, sprinkle some granulated sugar.
- Stick all these facial features on the cake with frosting and you are done. Enjoy.
Modern Lindt chocolate topper design
- Fill and frost a tall cake with Almond Buttercream Frosting.
- Break up grass candy and stick them along the base of the cake.
- Place chocolate bunny toppers on top. I like to use a big and a small one.
- Add more grass candy around the toppers.
- Place small chocolate bunny along the base.
- Toss white sprinkles or edible pearls along the sides of the cake and enjoy.
Video
Notes
- In the video, I will show you how to make the Lindt chocolate topper cake. When I make the video for the coconut version soon, I will add that tutorial to the video as well.
- Instead of cream cheese frosting, you can use any other white icing. Buttercream frosting is a great option.
- For a super fluffy look, I recommend using shredded coconut over desiccated coconut.
- Try other cake flavors such as lemon, chocolate, vanilla or even orange.
- Please make sure your cake cools to room temperature before you start decorating it or else you will end up with a sticky mess.
- Read additional tips and variations above.
- Leftovers can be stored in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
Calories: 858kcal | Carbohydrates: 129g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 39g | Saturated Fat: 17g | Cholesterol: 34mg | Sodium: 474mg | Potassium: 212mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 111g | Vitamin A: 50IU | Vitamin C: 2.5mg | Calcium: 33mg | Iron: 2mg