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DIY Bunny Cake

This sweet, sleepy bunny cake is super cute, and just as easy to make! Using big, frosted sugar cookies for ears, your favorite cake and buttercream frosting instantly become an adorable Easter treat, that’s totally worthy of centerpiece status. Read on for our simple how-to just in time for Easter!

Your favorite cake recipe
Your favorite buttercream recipe (we like this one)
Your favorite sugar cookie recipe (we like this one)
Pink icing color
Black gel icing
Disposable piping bag
Small round frosting tip
6” round cake pans
Bunny ear template
White cardstock
Scissors
Wooden skewers


Print out the bunny ear template onto cardstock and cut out.

Make sugar cookie dough according to your recipe. You don’t need much so we suggest making half the recipe, but if you’d like some bonus cookies you can make the full recipe!

Roll dough out into a thin, even layer on a prepared baking sheet. Lay the bunny ear template on top and trace two ears with a kitchen knife. Bake the ears according to the recipe instructions and let cool. *You want the cookies to be lightweight but still strong enough to stay together, so don’t make them too thick.

While the cookies are baking, put together your cake mixture according to your recipe. Bake cake mixture in 6” round pans.

While the cake is baking, mix up some buttercream frosting. Take out a large spoonful or two and put in a small bowl to make the pink frosting- leave the rest white. Mix in a tiny amount of pink icing color until you reach a nice pale pink.

Use a piping bag with a small round tip to frost an outline on the bunny ears. Then thin the pink frosting with a bit of milk and fill in the outlines on each ear. Set the ears on a flat surface to dry.

Once the cake layers have cooled, level the top of each layer with a knife. Assemble the cake and frost into a smooth, white cake. Not sure how to get it even? Check out our video on how to frost the perfect cake.

Use the black gel icing to draw bunny eyes, nose, and mouth on the front of the cake.

Use a knife to cut two small slits into the top of the cake. Insert the bunny ear cookies into the slits. If the cookies are having trouble staying up, use wooden skewers behind to prop them up. *If you are traveling, wait until you arrive at your destination before inserting the ears!

Photography: Nicole Baas | Design & Styling: SMP Living

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