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Bunny Cake | How to Make Bunny Cake | Easter Cakes

Easter cakes are cakes or sweet breads traditionally prepared and served during the Easter season. This bunny cake is a special cake which you can make and celebrate easter.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Decorating Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 2 hours

Equipment

  • Piping Bag
  • Piping Nozzle
  • Strip candies or thinly cut carrots for mustache

Ingredients

For Cake:

  • All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1 ½ cup / 180 grams
  • Baking Powder - 1.5 tsp
  • Salt - ¼ tsp
  • Unsalted Butter - ½ cup / 110 grams
  • Sugar - 1 cup / 200 grams
  • Vanilla Essence - 1 tblspn
  • Eggs - 2
  • Milk - ½ cup / 120 ml

For Buttercream Frosting

  • Unsalted Butter - 100 grams softened
  • Icing Sugar / Confectioners Sugar - 400 grams sifted
  • Vanilla Essence - 1 tblspn
  • Milk - 2 tblspn

For Decorating:

  • Desiccated Coconut or Flaked Coconut
  • Green Food Colour
  • Coloured Candies or M&M's
  • Pink Paper
  • Toothpicks

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 200 degree C. Grease a 8 inch cake pan with oil and dust it with flour. Coat all side and tap off the excess. Set aside.
  • Take flour, baking powder and salt in a sifter and sieve it once. Set aside.
  • Take butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and beat till fluffy.
  • Add in egg one at a time and beat till fluffy.
  • Now add in half of the flour mix in and add in milk. Fold gently. Now add remaining flour and fold gently.
  • Spoon this in the pan and bake for 35 to 40 mins untill a tooth pick inserted comes out clean. Remove it from oven and let it cool down for 5 mins.
  • Now un mould it and cool it completely. Now wrap it in plastic wrap and chill for couple of hours.
  • Now make vanilla butter cream frosting. Sieve the icing sugar really well.Beat butter very well till it gets fluffy..Add 2 cups of of the sugar, one at a time and beat well...Pour in 1 tblspn of milk and continue beating..Now add another 2 cups of of the icing sugar one cup at a time and beat well..now add another tblspn of milk and beat well..Continue to beat till it gets fluffy and shiny..Add in vanilla essence and beat till fluffy..
  • Cut the cake in half and sandwich both with the frosting. Cut a section of cake as shown in pictures and place it as tail by securing it with toothpick. Now cover the entire cake with frosting and top with coconut.
  • Now dye the remaining butter cream with green food colour and pipe it around the plate to resemble grass.
  • Now place candies for eyes and nose. Cut chart paper like ears and place it in the cake.
  • Now bunny cake is ready.
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