The Craft Guru

Easter will be here before you know it! Here is a fun project for you and your kids.

How to Make an Easter Bunny Cake
by Monica Resinger

The Easter bunny cakes that you can buy from the bakeries in grocery stores
can be quite expensive; by making your own, you’ll save money. Here’s how.

You’ll need:

any flavor cake mix
a round cake pan
white frosting (purchased or homemade)
stiff construction paper in white, black and pink
glue

Optional:
Easter grass
jellybeans
shredded coconut

Directions: Prepare the cake mix according to package directions and bake it
in the round cake pan. Most cake mixes make enough batter for two round cake
pans; therefore you can make two bunny cakes or make cupcakes with the rest of
the batter if you only want to make one bunny cake. After the cake has cooled,
remove it from the pan and cut the circle in half. With white frosting, frost
the bottom of one of the halves generously, then stand the two halves up on
their cut side on a plate or cake stand and push the two bottoms together so
the frosting is in the middle holding them together. Now frost the whole thing.
It should look like a half circle standing on a plate; this is the body of
the bunny.

For the eyes, cut two round circles out of white construction paper, then two
smaller circles out of black construction paper and glue each black circle
onto a white circle. Stick the eyes onto the frosting on the front of the bunny
body (one of the narrow ends).

For the ears, cut bunny ear shapes, in proportion with the body, out of white
construction paper. Cut smaller bunny ear shapes out of the pink construction
paper and glue them onto the white ones to make the center of the ear. When
glue has dried, insert the bottom of the ears into the frosting about an inch
above the eyes.

For further decoration, lay Easter grass around the cake, place jellybeans on
top of the grass and put coconut on the frosting of the cake as bunny hair.
This cake makes a nice centerpiece for your table. Use it with a vase of in
season flowers and there you have it.

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