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This Easter Bunny Cake<\/strong> is simple to make and so festive! An easy coconut cake recipe that’s fun to make with kids to celebrate the holiday!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Easter Bunny Cake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you’re looking for a fun cake to make for Easter, this is it. Aside from making a few things out of fondant, it’s a fairly simple cake to put together and the result looks like you worked super hard! You just need some white fondant, a little bit of black fondant and to make the coconut cake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of the coconut cake, it’s based on my favorite Moist Vanilla Cake<\/a>, but with coconut flavor and coconut cream cheese frosting. So tasty! The cream cheese frosting is not only delicious, it makes an ideal backdrop for adding the shredded coconut “bunny fur”. Because the cream cheese frosting is naturally on the sticky side, it holds onto the coconut quite well. The whole cake is as delicious as it is cute!<\/p>\n\n\n

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How to make an Easter Bunny Cake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So to get started making this cake, you’ll want to think through the decorations. You’ll need to make the ears, eyes and nose. Only three parts, but the ears in particular require some planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ll want to make the ears at least 3-5 days in advance. The sooner the better so that they have time to dry out and firm up. If they don’t have time, they’ll be some very floppy bunny ears and just not be what you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eyes and nose could be made just before adding to the cake or made ahead. If you decide to make them just before adding to the cake, just be sure you keep a little bit of white fondant aside for the nose.<\/p>\n\n\n

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How to Make Fondant Bunny Ears<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To make the bunny ears, you’ll need your white fondant. Set aside about a tablespoon of it to use for the nose and then keep the rest for the ears. Divide the fondant into two balls, with one being slightly larger than the other. The larger will be for the white part of the ears, which are bigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roll out your fondant and be sure you have enough height and width to it. My ears were about 7 inches tall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To actually cut out the white parts of the ears, you could just do it by hand and eyeball it or you could draw the ears out onto a piece of paper and cut them out to use as a pattern. The benefit to the pattern is that you know you’ll cut out a shape that your happy with. The nice thing about fondant though is that you can always start over if you aren’t happy with what you cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roll out the fondant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cut out the ears.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Make the pink inner part of the ear.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fold over a little bit of one ear.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

To make the pink inner part of the year, roll out your fondant and again either eyeball it or use your pattern, trim it down to the right size and shape and then trace that to cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you have all your fondant pieces, attach the pink pieces to the white with a little bit of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to have a little bit of one ear folded over, like mine, roll up a little piece of a paper towel and use that to support the tip of the ear that’s folded over while it dries. Once it’s dry, you can remove the paper towel and it’ll stay in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An important thing to note about the ears is that even though they’ll dry out, once they make contact with the frosting on the cake, they will slowly begin to moisten again from the moisture in the cake. If your ears will only sit on the cake for 30 minutes or so, that’s fine. If it’ll be longer, I’d suggest attaching skewers to the backs of the ears. Just place the skewer against the back of each ear and press some fondant over it, attaching it to the ear. Allow it all to dry and you’re good to go. The skewer will give your ears support as they moisten so that they stay in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fondant Bunny Eyes and Nose<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The bunny eyes and nose are a little more straight forward and can be made ahead or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gently shape it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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For the eyes, you’ll break off a little pieces of black fondant – about the size of a chickpea – and roll it out lengthwise to about the length you want for the eye. Gently shape it with your fingers to give it a curved look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Break off another smaller piece of black fondant, roll it out and attach it to the other piece with a little bit of water. Make two eyes and then attach them to the cake with a little water, if needed. You can always move a little of the shredded coconut out of the way and they should stick to the cream cheese frosting pretty well too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the nose, color about a tablespoon of white fondant with pink gel icing color and then roll it out. Cut out a cute little nose and then attach it to the cake when ready.<\/p>\n\n\n

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How to Assemble this Coconut Easter Cake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your fondant decorations will all go onto your coconut cake. It’s fairly straightforward to make and uses the creaming method. Once your cake layers are baked, layer them together with the coconut cream cheese frosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, you’ll add the shredded coconut. I like to just use my hand to gently press the coconut onto the sides of the cake. I start at the bottom and work my way up as I go around. Super simple and it sticks well to the cream cheese frosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final step is to add those beautiful fondant decorations! You end up with one festive and tasty cake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Easter Bunny Cake is clearly perfect for Easter and a fun cake to make with kids. They can get involved in helping with the fondant and could even help with baking the cake and pressing the coconut onto the frosting. With all the kids at home right now, it’d make a fun project!<\/p>\n\n\n

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More Easter Cakes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n