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Bunny Butt Cookies and Cake

Bunny Butt Cookies and Cake recipes and videos.

Mel Wurm is the bakery director at Mapleside Farms and loves creating festive treats for any holiday.  Mel showed our sister station's Fox 8 anchor Kristi Capel how easy it is to make bunny themed sweet treats that are perfect for any Easter or Spring celebration. Enjoy!

Bunny Cookies

1 roll (16.5 oz) refrigerated sugar cookies
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 container (12 oz) fluffy white whipped ready-to-spread frosting
Pink gel food color, if desired
22 miniature marshmallows
Assorted size candy sprinkles

Bunny Butt Cookies and Cake
Bunny Butt Cookies and Cake

Bunny Cake

Ingredients and Supplies

1  box yellow or white cake mix
Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
Tray or cardboard covered with wrapping paper and plastic food wrap or foil
1 container vanilla frosting
Red food color
1 large marshmallow, cut in half
3 cups shredded coconut
Green food color
  strawberry or cherry stretchy and tangy taffy candies
1   roll chewy fruit snack orange in color
3   green-colored sour candies, separated into strips
Construction paper
1 ½-quart ovenproof bowl
Muffin pan & cups
Bowl for frosting
Tray for assembling & serving cake
Knife
Rolling pin
Plastic wrap

  1.  Bake cake according to box directions. Be sure toothpick comes out clean!
Bunny Butt Cookies and Cake

2. Place bowl cake on tray cut side down. Use frosting to adhere cupcakes to bowl cake for feet and bunny tail. Use toothpicks if necessary. Place marshmallow halves, cut sides down, on tops of 2 cupcakes to make heels of feet.

Bunny Butt Cookies and Cake
Bunny Butt Cookies and Cake

4.  After spreading the remaining frosting over cake, sprinkle 2 cups of the coconut over the bunny; press gently to adhere. Shake the coconut and a few drops of food coloring in a covered jar to achieve your desired color for both the bunny “fur” and grass.

Bunny Butt Cookies and Cake

5.  Use a rolling pin to press strawberry candies into 2 large rectangles. Cut 2 large ovals and 6 small circles out of candy. Press onto bottoms of bunny feet, using frosting if needed to secure.

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