Will you be doing any Easter baking this week? We can’t wait to get back in the kitchen to bake up some yummy treats. We’ve already shared our recipe for Simnel Cake and showed you how we used our new mould to make an Easter Bunny and Egg Cake, now we’re sharing this tutorial on how we made this cute Easter Bunny Cupcake.
First of all you’ll need to bake up a batch of cupcakes. We used chocolate so it would look like the dirt.
Chocolate Cupcakes
For the cupcake
- 115g Self Raising Flour
- 115g Butter
- 115g Caster Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 4 Tablespoons of Cocoa
- 2 Tablespoons of Milk.
Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees and line your cupcake tray with cases.
Add the sugar and butter to a food processor and beat together. The add the eggs and milk. Mix well
Sieve in the flour and cocoa powder and mix until combined.
Add them to the mixture and stir until combined.
Divide the batter between the cupcake cases and place in the oven for around 12 minutes, or until a knife comes out clean when placed in the middle.
Leave to cool thoroughly.
Next you will need to make some green buttercream icing.
Buttercream Icing
- 200g butter
- 500g icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- Green food gel colouring.
In a large bowl place the butter and beat until smooth
Sieve in the icing sugar, half at a time. You may want to cover your bowl as the icing sugar will fly everywhere!
Beat on full power until smooth. Add in the vanilla extract and gel colour. (We advise using gel colours rather than liquid as it can change the consistency of your icing.)
Fondant Bunny
Follow our infographic for a detailed tutorial in how to make your fondant bunny.
Take a piece of sugar paste and roll it into a large ball, this will be the body. Roll another piece for the tail.
Take another two equal sized pieces and manipulate into the shape of the bunny’s feet. The easiest way to do this is to roll your piece into a ball then squash it using your finger.
You will need to colour a further two pieces with pink colouring to form the pads of the bunny’s feet.
Using your sugar paste modelling tools, score 3 lines on your bunny’s feet to make “toes” repeat this for the pink pads.
Using edible glue or a little water, brush a little onto the feet and adhere the pink pads to the bottom. Leave to dry.
Meanwhile take the bunny’s tail and brush with edible glue then roll in white sprinkles. You don’t need to cover it completely as one half will need to be stuck on to the body.
Once the different components are dry apply a little more edible glue to the feet and stick to the body. You may need to hold each foot in place for a few minutes to ensure they stay in place. Do the same for the tail.
Now you have your bunny!
Putting it all together
Using your green buttercream icing and a grass piping nozzle pipe “grass” on to the top of your cupcake.
Take your fondant bunny and place him in the grass. Try to place him near to the edge rather than the middle.
Finish your cupcake by make some little flowers using these daisy plunger cutters in different colours and pop them in the “grass”.
And you’re done!