An easy and adorable Bunny Butt Cake that makes an adorable Easter dessert, baby shower cake and birthday cake!
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 – without the fluorescent green grass and hard to chew coconut.
This little bunny butt cake is an easy Easter dessert 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.
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. But 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.
Mix
Bake
Cool
Ice
Construct
Enjoy!
You can use tubs of icing, but I made the girls’ favorite marshmallow icing. It’s light, fluffy and so good!
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.
Keep reading for the recipe and full tutorial!
How to make a bunny butt cake:
Watch the video in this post to see how easy it is to make this delicious Easter treat!
Bunny Butt Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cake mix mixed as instructed on box
- 2 tubs or batches of icing
- cotton candy or large marshmallow
- pink icing tube
- optional: 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
You may also like my Cottontail Cupcakes, Deviled Egg Chicks, Carrot Cake Cheese Ball and Carrot Shaped Southwest Cheese Ball!
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For more darling and delicious Easter desserts, visit my friends. Recipes include Easter S’mores Pizza, Carrot Scones, Carrot Cake, and Easter Dessert Kabobs!
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
So fun!! I love recipes like this, you made a traditional cake look so cute and updated.
Super cute and relatively simple to bake. Love this.
– Greta
http://www.mintyfrosting.com
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!
lots of cool ideas, the cake is just too cute!!
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!
This is super cute. It literally made me laugh out loud. 🙂
Here’s to things from a new perspective. 🙂
karianne
Oh my gosh that is the cutest cake ever!! Love it!
Thank you, Carly! You’re too sweet.
This is just the CUTEST idea ever!
Thanks so much for sharing at AMAZE ME MONDAY!
Blessings,
Cindy
Looks great and not hard to do👏🏻
Thank you!
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!
Absolutely adorable and you make it look sooo easy! The kids would love this!
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!
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!