Make a cute Easter dessert featuring a Peeps marshmallow bunny raiding the carrot patch. These Peeps Pudding Cups are easy to make by topping a bowl of delicious chocolate pudding with cookie crumbs, candy carrots, and a bunny of course.
Today I'm going to share a super easy Easter dessert recipe featuring Peeps.
Each sugar-coated marshmallow bunny is nestled in a bowl of chocolate pudding that is topped with crushed chocolate cookie dirt filled with candy carrots. It looks as though the garden has been invaded by the bunny.
Whether you love or hate eating marshmallow Peeps, there is no denying they are fun to add to edible crafts for Easter. I personally love the sugar-coated marshmallow bunnies and chicks.
I love them so much that back in 2003, I created this Peeps on the Farm in Ohio basket, for a contest that Just Born, the maker of Peeps, hosted. I won first prize (not the grand prize) which was a year's supply of Peeps. Giant boxes filled with 365 packages of Peeps arrived at my doorstep.
Crazy, right? So, was the amount of work I put into that basket. With the exception of the wicker basket, a metal hook, and a few toothpick fishing poles, the entire thing was edible even the chocolate airplane!
This recipe won't take a fraction of the time! It's super easy.
So, let's get started.
Ingredients
white modeling chocolate (click the link for the recipe)
orange and green food coloring
OR use gummy carrots or royal icing carrots
Peeps Marshmallow Bunnies
2 candy eyes per bunny
1 pink sugar pearl (round candy sprinkle) per bunny
1 white heart-shaped sprinkle per bunny
corn syrup (to use as edible glue)
chocolate pudding
crushed chocolate cookies (about one cookie per pudding)
Instructions
Making candy carrots.
I couldn't find candy carrots when I decided to make these desserts, so I made my own using homemade modeling chocolate (also known as candy clay).
You can use gummy carrots or royal icing carrots.
- Pinch off and color some modeling chocolate green.
- Color a larger amount orange.
- Pinch off pea-size pieces of orange and roll them into balls.
- Then roll them into carrot shapes. Pinch off tiny pieces of green and roll them into very thin logs.
- Cut into ¼" or so pieces. Use a toothpick to create a hole in each carrot.
- Dab a bit of corn syrup into each hole. Insert a green log into each carrot.
- Flatten and cut the green to look like leaves.
- Use a knife to make indentations across each carrot, if desired.

Decorate your Peeps bunny.
Your Peeps already have faces, and if you choose, you can skip the steps of adding decorations to the faces, but I like the more expressive faces and the buck teeth. If you do too, then use the backside of each Peep to create the new face.
Use corn syrup as glue to attach two candy eyes and one pink sugar pearl for a nose to each bunny. Break off the tip of each white candy heart to make buck teeth for your bunnies. Add them just under the pink nose.
Use a skewer or toothpick to poke a hole for the mouth in each bunny. Dip the tip of a modeling chocolate carrot into corn syrup. Press it into the mouth.

Fill a dessert cup with pudding, add some edible cookie crumb dirt, nestled in a decorated bunny, and add more modeling chocolate carrots. Then serve.
Variations
This idea could also be used on a chocolate cupcake or a bowl of chocolate mousse. You could even create an entire garden filled with carrots and bunnies on a brownie or cake.
Storage
These festive Easter desserts can even be made ahead and kept in the refrigerator for a day. I don't normally refrigerate modeling chocolate as it can develop condensation, but these carrots are so small, you don't really notice it.
I've had my Peeps Pudding in the refrigerator for three days and they still look great.
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cherrybaby016
I love Peeps! My big sister and I love to sit and catch up over a small box of chicks, we have always shared them during the Easter season ever since I was a child.
Brenda @ SweetSimpleStuff
Sooo cute ... even Peeps eat their vegetables!
Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Chocolate carrots are my kind of vegetables too!
Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Thanks for sharing a link!
Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel
OMG, how cute are these?!
Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel
OMG, how cute are these?!
Pint Sized Baker
These little guys are so cute. Who would bother them in the garden? Love 'em!
dragonswing
Oh this is so cute! And thank you for the instructions for the modeling chocolate. Even as a child, I was the only one in the family to like the marshmallow treats. SO I got to eat them all!! I prefer fresh but if they
are a bit stale, I will still eat them.
Pink Little Cake
I adore these mini carrots, and I would definitly go with the bowl of chocolate mousse
Jennifer @ Not Your Momma's Cookie
So completely clever and cute! I adore these, Beth!!
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust
These are adorable!
Betsy Eves - JavaCupcake.com
Oooooooooh I love how you gave them faces!! GENIUS idea!!!
Kalamity Kelli
I love your Ohio Farm Peeps! I'm doing a Peeps on Earth diorama this year - I was actually supposed to do it last night. Ah well, maybe tonight. The pudding is fabulous with the carrot-eating Peep!
Lisa@hooplapalooza
these crack me up! and your peeps basket is like out of the park crazy creative! 🙂
Robin In Ruskin
Your ideas are soooo cute! love those little peeps!
craftmomdawn
I like them fresh out of the package, soft and gooey.
You are very creative with Peeps
craftmomdawn
Fresh out of the package.
You are very creative with Peeps
Madonna
omgoodness how cute. I love peeps anyway you can imagine. I am old enough to remember when you could only get peeps at Easter. I am so glad they offer them all the time now. We made a Peep cake for Easter last year. It was so cute.
Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Oh, me too. I always anxiously awaited the arrival of Peeps in the grocery store each spring.
dragonswing
I will have to look harder cause the only time I see them is at the holiday
sugarswings
So adorable!! Love the big eyes on them and I love them stale! Thanks for playing along!!!!
The Partiologist
Love love love your peeps pudding - too cute!
Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com
This is so cute Beth! Love how you did the face!!