How to Make Bunny Ear Cupcakes
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These Easter Bunny Cupcakes with Marshmallow Ears are so easy to make and cute as can be. They are perfect easy treats for spring or your Easter celebration.
Easy Easter Bunny Cupcakes
I love Easter Food Crafts. They are so much fun. Like this Bunny Butt Brownie, Easy Fudge Bunny cookies, and English Muffin Bunny Pizza
Easter is coming so quickly this year. On the one hand, I am excited to see Spring arrive. On the other hand, I am not prepared. Thankfully, these cute little Easter Bunny Cupcakes are so simple to make that I might be able to pull off a fun Easter without too much stress.
What you’ll love about this recipe:
Ingredients You’ll Need
- White cupcakes frosted with Vanilla or White Frosting—I cheated this time and bought cupcakes with colorful sprinkles at the grocery bakery. I like the way they look with bunny ears. They are so bright and cheerful.
- Optional: Rainbow sprinkles – My purchased cupcakes were already loaded with rainbow sprinkles.
- Marshmallows: You’ll need 1.5 marshmallows per cupcake
- Pink Sanding Sugar Sprinkles – I have used both bright pink and light pink. They are both great.
Equipment Needed
Kitchen Shears
Small Plate
How to make Easter Bunny Cupcakes with Marshmallow Ears
If you are making your cupcakes, pipe white frosting onto your white cupcakes using a star tip. Pipe them into a tall spiral.
Optional: Sprinkle rainbow sprinkles onto the white frosting. You can substitute rainbow sprinkles with sweetened coconut flakes.
Pour some sanding sugar onto a plate
Cut the regular-sized marshmallows in half at a diagonal
Press the sticky inside part of the marshmallow into the pink sugar to make bunny ears
Put the bunny ears on top of the cupcake – pressing down gently to put them in place
*if they are not staying – add some frosting to the bottom of the bunny ears to help set them in place
Cut the other regular marshmallow in half
Place it on the back of the cupcake, pressing it gently into the frosting to make a bunny butt.
Expert Tips and Tricks
I bought jumbo cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles for this Easter treat at the Walmart bakery.
Handy tip: Frosting You Cupcakes
Using a star tip, start in the center of your cupcake. Gently squeeze the frosting onto the center of the cupcake and go out toward the sides in a circular motion. Once you are back at the starting point, start building your frosting mound upward by continuing a circlular motion around and around for a few layers. Each layer will get more narrow as you reach the tip. At the top point, stop squeezing the frosting out and pull away.
Variations
Bunny Feet: Add cute bunny feet to the front of your cupcakes with mini marshmallows and pink frosting
Colorful Bunny Cupcakes: Make a rainbow of bunnies by using different colored sanding sugars for each bunny
Making Optional Bunny Feet
- Mini marshmallows can be made flat with a rolling pin or just squeezed until flattened out a bit
- use a small watercolor paintbrush to color the bunny feet with pink frosting
- toothpicks are an excellent tool for making the toes for the bunny feet
- Use frosting to glue bunny feet to the front of your cupcake
What to Serve With
Make-Ahead and Storage:
These cupcakes are best when eaten the day of making them, but can be covered and stored for up to two days
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Serving Size
This will make one dozen cupcakes
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Recipe Printable
Easy Easter Bunny Cupcakes
Equipment
- Scissors
Ingredients
- 12 Cupcakes baked decorated with white frosting and optional sprinkles
- 18 Regular size marshmallows
- 5 oz. Pink sanding sugar
Instructions
- If you are making your cupcakes, pipe white frosting onto your white cupcakes using a star tip. Pipe them into a tall spiral.
- Optional: Sprinkle rainbow sprinkles onto the white frosting. You can substitute rainbow sprinkles with sweetened coconut flakes.
- Pour some sanding sugar onto a plate
- Cut a regular-sized marshmallows in half at a diagonal
- Press the sticky inside part of the marshmallow into the pink sugar to make bunny ears
- Put the bunny ears on top of the cupcake – pressing down gently to put them in place
- *if they are not staying – add some frosting to the bottom of the bunny ears to help set them in place
- Cut another regular marshmallow in half
- Place it on the back of the cupcake, pressing it gently into the frosting to make a bunny butt.
- Repeat for more.
