Bunny Butt Cake
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Serve this adorable Easter bunny butt cake at your big Easter celebration this year. It's super cute, easy to bake and assemble, and tastes delicious.
This a coconut cake covered in vanilla frosting and topped with...more coconut. This Easter bunny looks furry and sweet, just like the real thing.
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon coconut extract
- 4 large eggs
- 4 1/2 cups cake flour
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 1/4 cups milk
- Cooking spray
- 1 can vanilla frosting
- 10 Oreo chocolate cookies
- 4 cups shredded coconut
- Green food coloring
- Pink jelly beans
Steps to Make It
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Gather your ingredients.
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Preheat the oven to 350 F. Cream the butter and sugar together in a large bowl using a hand mixer or in the bowl of a stand mixer using the whisk attachment, for 10 minutes until light and fluffy.
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Add the vanilla and coconut extracts, then add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
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Sift together the dry ingredients, the flour, baking powder, and salt.
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Alternate adding the milk and dry ingredients into the batter. Beat for another 5 minutes until fluffy.
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Prepare a large, ovenproof mixing bowl and a cupcake tin. Grease both generously with cooking spray, then coat them with a thin layer of flour, tapping off all of the excess. You only need to prepare 3 or 4 wells in the muffin tin.
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Pour 3/4 of the batter into the prepared ovenproof bowl.
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Fill 3 to 4 wells of the muffin tin with the remaining batter, 3/4 of the way up the sides.
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Bake the cupcakes and large cake in the oven. Take the cupcakes out after about 20 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
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Bake the larger cake for longer, about 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
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Allow all of the cakes to cool completely, then remove them from their pans.
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Gather the frosting and decorating ingredients.
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Take one of the cupcakes, and crumble it up. Mix the cake crumbs with 2 tablespoons of frosting. This will form a cake ball to make the tail. You can also use one of the cupcakes as a tail, but it looks a little better to have a rounder, smaller tail in comparison to the feet.
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Place the large cake on a cake stand. Trim the top of the cake before flipping it upside-down, so that it will lay flat on the plate. You can also add a layer of frosting around the base to hide any gaps.
Stick 3 toothpicks into the cake where you want the tail and feet to be. Form the cake ball, and place it on 1 toothpick. Place 2 of the cupcakes on the other toothpicks.
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Coat the whole cake in a layer of frosting. It doesn't have to be super-tidy, since you'll be covering it in shredded coconut as well.
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Cover the entire cake in 3 cups of the coconut flakes. Pat down the areas where the tail and feet meet the cake, so they look distinct from the rest of the body.
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Grind the Oreo cookies in a food processor until they become "dirt" or very fine crumbs.
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Pat a circle of the Oreo cookie "dirt" around the base of the cake, so it looks like the bunny's butt is poking out of the dirt.
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Dye the remaining coconut green by mixing it with a few drops of food coloring in a bowl. Place a circle around the remaining base of the cake stand to look like grass.
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Use pink jelly beans to create the pads of the bunny feet. Then start showing it off.
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