These adorable Easter Bunny Cupcakes will look so cute as an easy Easter dessert. They’re made with a simple premade cupcake making them easy for anyone to put together!
Easter is right around the corner and that means it’s time to start thinking about chocolate bunnies, Easter eggs, filling Easter baskets, Easter dinner and of course, Easter cupcakes!
These adorable Easter bunny cupcakes are simple to make and perfect for your Easter celebration, resembling little bunnies.
They’re made with a simple vanilla cupcake, topped with a donut hole and mini marshmallows to make the body and icing that looks like grass. You can use any vanilla cupcake of your liking – store bought, a cake mix or from scratch.
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Supplies Needed to make Easy Bunny Cupcakes
- Pre-Baked batch of cupcakes – using a box of cake mix, or a vanilla or chocolate cupcake recipe
- Store bought or buttercream frosting
- Grass piping Tip
- Decorator Icing or homemade Donut holes
- shredded Coconut (optional)
- Sprinkles
- Green Gel Food Coloring
- Mini marshmallows
Tutorial – How to Make Icing Look Like Grass
In a large bowl, add a few drops of food coloring to your vanilla icing.
Fit the piping bag with a coupler and grass tip.
Fill the bag halfway with green icing.
Hold the piping above the center of each cupcake, straight up and down and lightly touch the surface of the cupcake.
Lift up as you very quickly squeeze.
Stop squeezing and pull the piping bag up.
Continue this process all the way around the top of the cupcake, squeezing and stopping creating the illusion of grass on top of each cupcake.
If only adding the sprinkles to the adorable cupcakes, do it immediately. Once the icing dries the sprinkles won’t stick.
How to Make Cupcakes look like a Bunny’s Bottom
Cut the donut hole in half creating two bottoms using kitchen shears.
Place the holes, cut side down on top of the frosted cupcakes.
Pipe a dollop of white icing on the top of the donut hole.
Add coconut shreds to create a fluffy tail, this step is optional.
Cut a mini marshmallow in half and stick the sticky side to the donut hole creating the feet.If the marshmallows will not stick, use a little bit of white icing to glue them to the donut.
Somethings to keep in mind while making your Sweet Bunny Cupcakes:
- Gel food coloring is preferred over liquid because liquid color will change the consistency of the buttercream icing, where the gel color will not.
- Store bought buttercream and store bought icing are NOT the same. Buttercream is stiffer than icing and is the recommended option for cake and cupcake decorating.
- If you have hot hands, meaning while you are holding the piping bag the icing begins to “break” (the color looks distorted) inside the bag, place it in the fridge for 5 mins to stiffen back up and rub some ice on your hands to keep them cool.
- Store leftover cupcakes 3-5 days in an airtight container
Easy Easter Bunny Cupcakes Recipe
Ingredients
- Pre-baked Cupcakes
- Store bought or homemade buttercream.
- Grass piping Tip
- Store bought or homemade Donut holes
- Coconut (optional)
- Sprinkles
- Green Gel Food Coloring
- Mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Fit the piping bag with a couple and decorating tip.
- Fill the bag halfway with green icing.
- Hold the piping above the cupcake, straight up and down and lightly touch the surface of the cupcake.
- Lift up as you very quickly squeeze. Stop squeezing and pull the piping bag up.
- Continue this process all the way around the top of the cupcake, squeezing and stopping creating the illusion of grass.
- If only adding the sprinkles to the cupcakes, do it immediately. Once the icing dries the sprinkles won't stick.
- To make the bunny bottom: Create the cupcakes as mentioned above.
- Cut the donut hole in half creating two bottoms.
- Place the holes, cut side down on top of the icing.
- Pipe a dollop of white icing on the top of the donut hole.
- Add coconut shreds to create a fluffy tail, this step is optional.
- Cut a mini marshmallow in half and stick the sticky side to the donut hole creating the feet.
- If the marshmallows will not stick, use a little bit of white icing to glue them to the donut
Notes
Gel food coloring is preferred over liquid because liquid color will change the consistency of the buttercream icing, where the gel color will not.
Store bought buttercream and store bought icing are NOT the same. Buttercream is stiffer, than icing and is the recommended option for cake and cupcake decorating.
If you have hot hands, meaning while you are holding the piping bag the icing begins to “break” (the color looks distorted) inside the bag, place it in the fridge for 5 mins to stiffen back up and rub some ice on your hands to keep them cool.
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