Sweet Little Bunny Cake~ Blog Tutorial

Hi everyone-- Today I'm sharing a sweet design for Easter and springtime. My favorite cakes have a light, cheerful feel to them. I could be completely happy doing nothing but cakes with flowers, birds, and bunnies ;0) -- This time of year is especially nice since there is inspiration everywhere for spring themes--and I have a phone filled with pictures of random cuteness (pillows, clothes, gift bags, etc) to prove it! Today's cake is very simple--but a design I thought I'd share in case you're looking for a cute idea~

First, I started with a tall, six inch cake, frosted in vanilla buttercream tinted with Americolor Sky Blue coloring gel. I often make tall cakes (two cake layers, cake cardboard with dowels beneath, and then another two cake layers)--they are just so much fun! In this case, the tall cake went especially well with my design, since my bunny is going to have extra l-o-n-g ears!

I used a small tapered spatula to create a some texture in my buttercream. I just made short quick horizontal strokes around the sides as I worked my way around the cake. The strokes on top of the cake all pointed to the center.

Next, I filled a piping bag with some vanilla buttercream and drew a basic outline of my bunny head & body using a small round piping tip (Wilton 4). It doesn't have to be exact (you can see I changed my mind a couple of times), since we'll be filling in the lines with "fluff"!

I filled in just using a in and out motion with the piping tip for some extra texture. I gave my bunny a big fluffy tail too!

Now, the fun part-- the ears!!

I used Americolor soft pink to tint my buttercream and piped inside of the bunny ears! Then I went back and filled in around the pink with more white frosting.

I used a black sprinkle (Wilton black sugar pearls) for my bunny's eye, which I used a toothpick to push a little further into the frosting. Then, I used my toothpick to create some lines/eyelashes around the eyes. ;0) If you are using a crusting buttercream, you can get cleaner impressions if you wait until the frosting has crusted. I also piped a little heart shaped nose.

Our bunny needed some rosy cheeks and so I gave her a little blush! This is actually just pink petal dust applied to the crusted buttercream with a dry paintbrush. Completely unnecessary but so cute, I think! I also gave our bunny a little bow (piped with a Wilton 1 tip)

Around the base of the cake, I used some edible Easter grass (thank you, Target!) and some malted milk eggs. I LOVE decorating with these eggs almost as much as I love eating them. Aren't they pretty?

And that's all there is to it! Our sweet little cake is finished. Hope you enjoyed the tutorial!

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