It is time to start thinking about making your Easter Bunny cake.  If you have never done this, it is actually very easy to do and it is a great activity to do with your kids.  There are different ways that you can do this.  There are some methods that may take several hours and be quite complicated or there are other methods that are somewhat simple and easy to accomplish in a short amount of time.  The following information will tell you how to put together a really fun Easter Bunny cake that you will probably want to do each and every year.

It seems as though nobody has the time to take a cake from scratch.  There some great cake mixes out there that you can purchase that will create a great tasting cake.  To make your Easter Bunny cake, you will need one box of cake mix.  You can choose any flavor that is your favorite.  You need to follow the directions for the cake mix, and then you will want to use two 8 inch round baking.  Make sure that you spray them with a nonstick spray and you may want to dust with flour so that the cake does not stick.  Once you have mixed up your cake batter, you will want to put half into each of the round pans.

Easter Bunny cake

Follow the directions in regard to the temperature that your other needs to be set at.  Keep in mind that you will need to test your cake to make sure that it is done.  You can do this by inserting a toothpick, and if it comes out clean, the cake is done.  Let the cake cool thoroughly before you begin to create the Easter Bunny.  You need to visualize that the one pan is going to be the face and from the other pan, you will cut out the ears with the centerpiece becoming a bowtie.  You will need to also think about what you are going to put your cake on.  You can purchase cake boards from your local craft and hobby store or cover cardboard with foil to create your platter.  You will need to position the head on the cardboard and then cut the ears from the other round piece, one from each side.  By cutting on a curve the middle piece will look like a bowtie.  Place the years at the top of the face and the bowtie at the bottom.  The great thing about cake is that you can actually carpets so it will fit snugly.

You can either make icing from a simple recipe you can find a local poker on the Internet or you can purchase icing that is already made.  This is when your creativity comes into play.  You can color the icing a light pink to create your Easter Bunny cake.  Or you can keep it light and use pink icing to highlight the middle of the ears, make a nose and of course the mouth.  Some people we you can decorate the bowtie with jellybeans or other decorative Easter candy.  Others will use jellybeans for the eyes and nose.  You can use a pastry bag with a tip to create whiskers or you can create them out of other edible items.  This is a basic way of creating your cake.  Once you have done one then you can begin to expand on some of the general ideas and create your own masterpiece Easter Bunny cake.

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