Easter Bunny Cupcake Tutorial
This super easy and simple bunny cupcake tutorial is a crowd pleaser.
Equipment
- Bowls
- Pair of Scissors
- Piping Bag
- Grass Piping Tip
Materials
- Prebaked Cupcakes
- Gel Food Color
- Store bought or home made buttercream
- Store Bought Donut holes
- Coconut
- Sprinkles
- Mini Marshmallows
Notes
Instructions
Fit the piping bag with a couple and decorating tip.
Fill the bag halfway with green icing.
Hold the piping above the cupcake, straight up and down, and lightly touch the surface of the cupcake.
Lift up as you very quickly squeeze. Stop squeezing and pull the piping bag up.
Continue this process all the way around the top of the cupcake, squeezing and stopping creating the illusion of grass.
If only adding the sprinkles to the cupcakes, do it immediately. Once the icing dries the sprinkles won't stick.
To make the bunny bottom:
Create the cupcakes as mentioned above.
Cut the donut hole in half creating two bottoms.
Place the holes, cut side down on top of the icing.
Pipe a dollop of white icing on the top of the donut hole.
Add coconut shreds to create a fluffy tail, this step is optional.
Cut a mini marshmallow in half and stick the sticky side to the donut hole creating the feet.
If the marshmallows will not stick, use a little bit of white icing to glue them to the donut.
Notes
Gel food coloring is preferred over liquid because the liquid color will change the consistency of the buttercream icing, where the gel color will not.
Store-bought buttercream and store-bought icing are NOT the same. Buttercream is stiffer, than icing and is the recommended option for cake and cupcake decorating.
If you have hot hands, meaning while you are holding the piping bag the icing begins to “break” (the color looks distorted) inside the bag, place it in the fridge for 5 mins to stiffen back up and rub some ice on your hands to keep them cool.