Easter Bunny Cupcakes

Name: Easter Bunny Cupcakes
Prep time: 2 h 15 min
Cook time: 2 h 15 min
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 tube Betty black decorating gel; 1 container Betty Rich & Creamy vanilla or creamy white frosting; 24 sticks pink gum; 48 sticks gum in white (or other colors such as yellow, blue, green); 24 pink candies (mini chewy sweet and tart candies); 24 miniature marshmallows (white or colors); 591 milliliters sweetened flaked coconut; 1 box Betty white cake mix; 1 drop each food color: red, green, blue, yellow

Easter Bunny Cupcakes might be just the American recipe you are searching for. This dessert has 341 calories, 1g of protein, and 7g of fat per serving. This dairy free recipe serves 24. Head to the store and pick up betty cake mix, pink candies, food color, and a few other things to make it today. It is perfect for Easter. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350F.

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Oven

Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes, using water, oil and egg. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.

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Cake Mix

Cupcakes

Water

Egg

Cooking Oil

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Muffin Liners

Oven

Meanwhile, divide coconut among five small bowls, about 1/2 cup each.

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Coconut

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Bowl

Add 1 drop of red food color to one bowl and mix with a spoon. Finish mixing using your fingers to lift and gently rub coconut. Repeat for each color to make a bowl of yellow, blue, pink, green and white coconut.

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Red Food Color

Coconut

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Bowl

Prepare ears by stacking two of the same color gum sticks on top of each other; trim into bunny ears using kitchen shears. For the center of each ear, cut a pink stick of gum in half lengthwise, trim about half an inch off of the end to trim into ear shape. Use a little frosting to glue the pink centers to the white gum ears.

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Frosting

To ensure that the coconut sticks to your frosting, frost one cupcake then immediately turn upside down, dipping top of the frosted cupcake into coconut. Repeat frosting and dipping for all cupcakes.

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Cupcakes

Frosting

Coconut

To add the bunny features, use a toothpick to create two slits in the top of the cupcake, then insert the ears into the slits.

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Cupcakes

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Toothpicks

Cut a miniature marshmallow in half.

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Marshmallows

Add a dot of frosting to the cut side of the marshmallows; press onto the front of the cupcake to create the paws. Gently press a pink candy on for nose; use black decorator gel to add the eyes.

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Marshmallows

Frosting

Cupcakes

Candy