I originally blogged about this Easter Bunny Cake back in April 2009, but every year around Easter, it’s my most popular post. If you make it, post a link to a photo or comment and let me know how it turned out!
Growing up, my mom often made an Easter Bunny cake like the one below for Easter. My favorite version of this cake is dark chocolate with white icing, covered in coconut!
Like a GIANT Mounds bar – but BETTER!
(page down for more decorating ideas)
Bake a cake, any cake, in two round cake pans. (Mine will be dark chocolate, in case I neglected to mention that. There is no reason for me to eat cake unless it is chocolate.) Let it cool and then cut it like you see in the photo on the left, below. On the serving plate (my mom always used a piece of cardboard covered in aluminum foil), CAREFULLY arrange it like the photo on the right, below. I’ve also seen the cake arranged so that one of the bunny ears is lopsided. Very cute.
Then, frost and decorate! My mom always frosted it white and covered it with coconut shavings as a base. Dark chocolate cake with coconut – mmmm – just like a Mounds bar. But CAKE!
Here’s some more decorating ideas:
I really like the whiskers and mouth on this one to the left, but I think it’s because it reminds me of a cat – which makes me wonder if this is an easy convert to a black cat cake! DOUBLE DARK CHOCOLATE. (Although at that point, it would be so rich I wouldn’t be able to finish a piece.)
Scroll down and check out a retro, kid friendly how-to video from ZOOM, a PBS show I used to watch as a kid! A Zooma Zooma Zooma Zoom!
The one on the left below looks the most like what we made when I was a kid, and I really like the ears on the one on the right. Are those red hot candies?
This next one on the left has GREAT eyes! And they don’t look too difficult. Love the strong Red Twist outline of the bow tie on the one to the right. I think I would take my favorite parts of each of these guys and put them all together on one cake. Dark chocolate, of course.
My mother used to make the same Easter bunny cake!
My mom and I made this cake every Easter. She died about 17 years ago, but I have kept the tradition alive every year since. In the last 5 with my twin girls. I love the pictures, and it is so much fun to see this cake making so many people happy. BTW… I must try the chocolate with white icing and coconut… it does sound like a delicious mounds bar!
This is simply an awesome post.!!
My Mom used to make such cakes and I looooooooooooved helping her decorate them.
Thanks for the instruction. I’ll try it soon
My daughter and I make this cake every year and it is an Easter tradition in our home. Now that she is a teenager she can do it all by herself. Today she make the cake while I made the scalloped potatoes and ham.
I actually made these cakes in the bakery in the 1980’s. We sold 1,284 cakes one Easter..really easy to make..great job decorating these cakes..happy Easter..😊