An easy and adorable Bunny Butt Cake a memorable Easter cake that also makes a beautiful baby shower cake or birthday cake! Get step-by-step instructions to make this Easter bunny cake that will have everyone talking!
You know what they say what goes around, comes around. So many cookbooks and magazines that inspired our mother’s and grandmother’s offer great inspiration for today – with a few tweaks. Today I’m bringing back the bunny butt cake, the ultimate Easter cake – without the fluorescent green grass and hard to chew coconut.
This little bunny butt cake is an easy Easter cake that everyone of all ages can enjoy.
This simple bunny butt cake makes an adorable centerpiece for Easter brunch and chances are you (or a neighbor) have everything you need to make one of your own. It’s a fun alternative to a traditional sheet cake.
It also makes a darling baby shower or birthday cake. In fact, I regret not making it for this Woodland Baby Shower!
Yes, sometimes I don’t have the right “tool” and call upon a neighbor or two. Okay, 10. Anyone who is around last minute on a random Wednesday morning. I found almost everyone {but me} had a simple glass Pyrex mixing bowl to bake a bunny butt cake.
If you know me, I prefer to keep clutter to a minimum, so if it’s not something I’ll use everyday, I’d rather borrow. No cake pans are needed to make this easy bunny cake.
How to Make a Bunny Cake
In a greased mixing bowl, combine ingredients to make batter.
Bake in mixing bowl and 2 greased cupcake tins.
Allow to cool completely on a wire rack.
Ice with buttercream.
Construct on your serving dish or platter placing the butt directly on the platter and shaving off each side of your cupcake to create feet. Ice feet with buttercream.
For the bunny tail, use cotton candy. You can substitute a cupcake if needed!
Use pink icing (I like using these for ease) to add little paw pads.
Optional: fill in with “grass” Enjoy!
Tips for Making an Easter Bunny Cake
- You can use tubs of icing, but I made the girls’ favorite marshmallow icing. It’s light, fluffy and so good! I also love this easy buttercream icing recipe. You can add a little milk or heavy cream if needed to make it even easier to work with. A hint of cream cheese is also another delicious twist to try.
- You can find white cotton candy at Chuck E Cheese, often near the checkout of Home Goods, TJ Maxx and Marshall’s, anywhere that makes cotton candy (we have a local candy store that can make it) or here online.
- In lieu of cotton candy you can use a cupcake or large marshmallow for the bunny tail
- I recommend putting the cotton candy on just before serving as being exposed to air will make it evaporate. Save a little icing to help it adhere.
- If you’d like, you can even add a little food coloring to this Easter bunny cake.
I made phyllo grass with these easy tutorial {took 5 minutes hands on time}, but I like this pretty faux Easter basket grass as well. You can add jelly beans to appear like Easter eggs scattered around it if you’d like.
Watch the video in this post to see how easy it is to make this delicious Easter cake!
You can find a comprehensive list of all my Easter Recipes here – there are over 125 memorable recipes to choose from!
You may also like my Cottontail Cupcakes, Deviled Egg Chicks, Carrot Cake Cheese Ball and Carrot Shaped Southwest Cheese Ball!
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Bunny Butt Cake | Easter Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cake mix mixed as instructed on box
- 4 c icing (2 tubs)
- cotton candy substitute large marshmallow
- pink icing
- phyllo grass
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Prepare your cake mix as instructed on the box. Pour batter into 2 greased unlined muffin tins and into a greased oven safe mixing bowl.
- Bake cupcakes 17 minutes and cake 50 minutes. Allow to cool 10 minutes and shave off top of cake until almost flat. Place cake on a platter or cake stand as if the bowl was upside down and set cupcakes aside until completely cool.
- Cut the sides off of cupcakes to create bunny feet. Refrigerate if necessary to ice without crumbs.
- Ice cake and then ice the underside of the "bunny feet" to adhere to the cake. Using an icing tube, add little pads to the bunny feet.
- Adhere bunny tail {a touch of cotton candy or an iced marshmallow work well.
- Optional: garnish with phyllo grass
This is so cute!! Perfect for Easter.
Not only is this adorable and super easy (my kind of dessert), it’s REALLY good! Somehow I even had the appropriate dishes for baking. Maybe next year I’ll go the extra mile and display it cutely on phyllo grass 🙂 Thanks for sharing such a cute recipe – it was a hit with our family, especially the kids!
This is absolutely ADORABLE!! I just love this idea!
Could I sub coconut oil for the butter in the frosting recipe?
I haven’t tested it, but if you do please return to let other readers know. Thank you! Enjoy!
This is the cutest!! I know my kids would love it!
Ha!!! This is the cutest!
So perfect for Easter and so easy!
Way to cute to eat!! But, it does look way tasty 🙂 My kids will love it!
Absolutely adorable and you make it look sooo easy! The kids would love this!
Jule,
Your bunny butt cake is just adorable and I have chosen it as one of my featuares on OVER THE MOON LINK PARTY which goes live on Sunday, 2/25/18, at 5pm Eastern. Please stop by and link up again.
🙂 gwingal
Thank you, Nikki! You’re too sweet!
Looks great and not hard to do??
Thank you!
This is just the CUTEST idea ever!
Thanks so much for sharing at AMAZE ME MONDAY!
Blessings,
Cindy
Oh my gosh that is the cutest cake ever!! Love it!
Thank you, Carly! You’re too sweet.
This is super cute. It literally made me laugh out loud. 🙂
Here’s to things from a new perspective. 🙂
karianne
I like to keep it doable adn simple these days. Mom’s ways are becoming mine! In a good way. Thanks for the cute bunny butt. Have a good day!
Yes! We have started to overcomplicate things rather than enjoying the simple things in life. I’m glad you enjoyed it as well, Linda. Happy Spring!
lots of cool ideas, the cake is just too cute!!
This is such a cute idea! My dad used to always make a bunny cake for Easter, but never an adorable bunny butt cake like this! Parker would love it!
Super cute and relatively simple to bake. Love this.
– Greta
http://www.mintyfrosting.com
So fun!! I love recipes like this, you made a traditional cake look so cute and updated.
Adorable bunny butt cake, indeed! It really doesn’t get cuter than this! I also had no idea you could bake in a pyrex bowl, but it makes total sense. Great idea and beautiful dessert, friend.
xo Michael