Fill your Easter baskets with these adorable Chocolate Bunny Silhouettes. They are simple to make using chocolate dipped vanilla wafer cookies for the bunny’s body and mini marshmallows for the fluffy tail.
Are you planning to make some chocolates to put into Easter baskets this year? You’ve got to make these cute Chocolate Bunny Silhouettes.
They are super easy to make and before you know it you’ll have an entire field filled with them. Well, you’ll at least have an entire Easter basket filled with these sweet chocolate bunnies.
To make them you need just three ingredients: vanilla wafers, chocolate or candy melts, and mini marshmallows.
Just so you know, I used a little piece of modeling chocolate to stand my bunnies up for these pictures. They won’t stand up all on their own.
How to make Chocolate Bunny Silhouettes (aka chocolate bunny butts)
This recipe makes 54 chocolate bunnies.
You will need:
8 ounces milk chocolate or light cocoa confectionery coating/candy melts
54 vanilla wafer cookies
54 mini marshmallows
Supplies Needed:
disposable pastry bag, zip top bag, or a squeeze bottle fitted with a small round pastry tip
parchment paper
baking sheets
fork or chocolate dipping fork
What kind of chocolate should I use to make these bunnies?
- You can use pure chocolate or confectionery coating.
- Pure milk chocolate contains cocoa butter and will require tempering (melting and cooling the chocolate so that the cocoa butter crystals come back together). See my Chocolate Making Tips page for details.
- Confectionery coating contains vegetable oil (usually palm kernel oil) and can simply be melted. There are many different brands of confectionery coating including Wilton Candy Melts, Ghirardelli Melting Wafers, Merckens Wafers, Peter’s Westchester Caps, Candi-Quik, and even almond bark.
- Read my Chocolate Making Tipspage for detailed information regarding the types of chocolate and how to melt each of them.
Instructions:
- Take one marshmallow and roll it in the palms of your hands to make them more round and wrinkled looking, like a bunny tail (see the marshmallows at the bottom of the picture.)
- Count out 54 whole vanilla wafer cookies and brush off the excess crumbs if needed.
- Pour some of your melted and tempered milk chocolate or melted confectionery coating/candy melts into a small bowl.
- Pour some of the chocolate or candy coating into a squeeze bottle fitted with a small round pastry tip (or use a disposable pastry bag, or a zip top bag with one tip snipped off.)
- Have your cookies, marshmallows, and dipping fork or kitchen fork ready to go.
- Pipe out a round circle about half the size of a vanilla wafer.
- Add two ears.
- Go to the next step immediately, while your chocolate is still wet.
- Dip one vanilla wafer cookie into the chocolate submerging it completely.
- Use a fork or dipping fork to lift the cookie out of the chocolate.
- Tap the fork on the edge of the bowl, allowing any excess chocolate to drip back into the bowl.
- Set the chocolate covered cookie just below your piped bunny head.
- Press a little marshmallow onto the bottom of the chocolate covered cookie.
- Make about 10 bunnies, then place your baking sheet in the refrigerator for 5-10 minutes until the chocolate bunnies harden.
- Continue to make a total of 48-60 chocolate bunnies.
- This number will depend on the size of your cookies, the thickness of your candy coating, and how many cookies you can coat when you get to the bottom of the bowl – that gets a bit tricky.
TIPS:
- As you work, you will probably need to re-heat your candy coating.
- Place it in the microwave and heat it for 10 seconds, then stir.
- If needed, heat 10 more seconds, but don’t over heat or you could burn the candy coating.
- If using pure chocolate you will need to temper it as needed.
- I like using the plastic squeeze bottle for projects like this because the entire bottle (as long as you use a plastic decorating tip) can go into the microwave.
- Heat the entire bottle for 10-15 second increments as needed.
- You may need to poke a toothpick into the pastry tip to remove any hardened candy.
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Chocolate Bunny Recipe
Vanilla wafer cookies dipped in chocolate or candy melts are decorated with bunny ears and a fuzzy marshmallow tail to look like Chocolate Bunny Silhouettes.
- 54 mini marshmallows
- 8 ounces milk chocolate or light cocoa candy melts melted & tempered or melted* (see recipe notes)
- 54 vanilla wafer cookies
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Roll mini marshmallows in the palm of your hands until they shape into fluffy bunny tails.
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Pipe one small head (a little smaller than a vanilla wafer) and two ears onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
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Dip a vanilla wafer cookie into the melted chocolate or candy melts.
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Remove from the chocolate and set right next to the chocolate head/ears creating the body for the bunny.
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Immediately attach one marshmallow bunny tail along the bottom edge of the chocolate dipped cookie.
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Refrigerate if using pure milk chocolate or freeze if using candy melts for about 3-5 minutes until the chocolate hardens.
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Repeat creating a total of 54 chocolate bunnies.
*If using pure milk chocolate containing cocoa butter you must melt and temper your chocolate. Candy melts can simply be melted. See the Hungry Happenings' Chocolate Making Tips Page for details.
Did you make this recipe or do you just think it is super cute? Let me know by leaving a comment and rating the recipe below.
Use your candy bunnies in Easter baskets or to create a centerpiece for your table.
To use these chocolate Easter bunnies as a centerpiece on your table sprinkle green colored coconut onto a serving tray or plate.
- To color coconut green, place your coconut in a zip top bag, add a few drops of green liquid food coloring, shake the bag vigorously, knead the coconut in the bag as needed, until the coconut turns green, adding more coloring as needed.
- Pour the coconut out onto your tray.
- Make balls or wedges using modeling chocolate and set them on the flat side of each chocolate bunny in order to prop them up in the coconut grass.
Here are some more Easter ideas from Hungry Happenings
Crescent Dough Carrots •Bunny Snack Cakes • Coconut Cake Ball Chicks • Candy Carrots
Ravenous Rabbit Cupcakes • Easter Egg Veggie Pizza •
Peanut Butter Fudge Filled Chubby Chocolate Bunnies • Carrot Shaped Veggie Pizzas
Daisy Pastries • Cheesecake Easter Eggs • Raiding the Carrot Patch – Peeps Pudding •
Swirling Sweets – Chocolate Dipped Marshmallow Pops
Cheesecake Carrots • Chocolate Bunny Silhouettes • How to make hand painted Easter Chocolates •
Homemade Sour Gummy Bunnies
Down the Bunny Hole Push-up Pops • Easter Egg Breakfast Pastries •
Rice Krispies Treat Easter Chick Pops • Deviled Egg Daisy
Did you make this recipe or do you just think it is super cute? Let me know by leaving a comment and rating the recipe below.
If you love celebrating Easter with cute treats be sure to check out these other recipes:
- Jelly Bean Bunny Cake from The Girl Who Ate Everything
- Peanut Butter & Cream Bunnies from Momtastic
- Bunny Cake Pops from Bakerella
See all of my Easter recipes, here.
Will you make these Chocolate Bunny Silhouettes for Easter? Let me know in the comments below.
I love making fun food for parties and special occasions and sharing my creative ideas with you. If you make this recipe and share it online be sure to link back to this post and use #hungryhappenings.
Thanks and have a sweet day! – Beth
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I am definitely enjoying your website. You definitely have some great insight and great stories.
These are just too cute not to make! Need to pin this one!
Thanks so much for the pin!
Most of the time we try to eat healthy, but these are so adorable and irresistable that I know I'll be making some soon! I've featured this entry on our 1st Day of Spring Roundup: http://rchreviews.blogspot.com/2014/03/14-ways-to-celebrate-spring-equinox-2014.html
Thanks so much for the feature, Lynda!
These are so darned adorable! I love them!
I love these they are so darn cute – I must make some
Oh my gosh these are just too cute!
Oh my goodness! I love these!! And they match my bunny garland! If you love bunny butts you'll have to check it out!
Pinning this!
I hopped over from the Sits Girls link up
~Cheryl
http://snaps-of-ginger.blogspot.com/2014/03/cottontail-bunny-garland.html
Thanks for hopping over from Sits Girls link up! Your bunny butt garland is adorable.
Oh my goodness these are so adorable, they are the perfect thing! Found them on the tip junkie link party and pinned! Awesome idea! 🙂
Cathy
www.threekidsandafish.com
Thanks for stopping by, Cathy!
That is so cute!
Too cute! A must have for Easter dessert.
Sop clever.
So cute!
Wow what a good idea! You can use the sweets for decoration and when the easter holiday is over you can eat it all up. Kids would really love this!
How cute!!! I will definitely be making these for my friends children for Easter! Thank you for sharing!
I love this creation and fully impressed with the hard work and costless effort on these stuffs.
Nissan GT-R
This was a featured project this week at Sharing Saturday as a most clicked entry 🙂
http://www.mamamiasheart2heart.com/2012/04/sharing-saturday-15.html
Thanks for featuring my bunny silhouettes, Mia! It's nice to know your readers liked them:)
Aww seriously cute! Pinned these and will be featuring tonight at Mom On Timeout! I need to just reserve you a weekly spot I think 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing!
O.K. you can just save me a spot in your features:) Thanks again for adding my recipe to your featured projects.
I'll be featuring YOU tonight at {wow me} wednesday! You were one of the top ten most viewed links from last week's party! Wahoo! 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing.
Ginger @ gingersnapcrafts.com
Thanks for the feature Ginger. It's always nice to hear on of my projects was one of the most viewed at a linky party. Thanks for hosting:)
CUTE as always 🙂 I love your tutorials, it always makes me say…"oh, that doesn't look so bad" But I know that if I did try it, I would mess it up..hahaha!! Thanks so much for sharing this with us at Sharing Saturday. See you next time.
Thanks Mia. YOU CAN DO IT! I'm sure of it:) Thanks for hosting Sharing Saturday.
Hi Beth! I saw your comment on my blog over at Blossomedge.com and had to check out your blog. These bunnies are just way toooo cute… Nice job! Thanks for the compliment on my cookie bouquets… 🙂
Thanks Joanie. I'm glad you stopped by.
Sooo cute! I hope you had a wonderful Easter!! Thanks for linking up to TGIF – have a GREAT week =-)
Beth
I did have a really nice Easter and I hope you did too!
Love these!
These are sooo, sooo cute!!!
I'm a new follower! Please feel free to visit my blog anytime. 🙂
~Susie http://earning-my-cape.blogspot.com/
These are amazing. Nice work. I bet you could do them with thin mints too…just attach the head to that. Love these though – no arguing with Nilla Wafers!
Thanks Jodi. I think using thin mints is a great idea! I love them and they are the perfect size and shape for these bunnies.
I just had to comment on these too- they are SO adorable!!! Love how creative you are!
Too cute 🙂 Hoppy Easter!
SO cute for Easter!
Oh my goodness…these are too cute! I hope you will come link it up at the Pinworthy Project Link Party going on now over on my blog, Just Us Four.
What a great idea. This is my first visit to your blog, so I took some time to browse through your earlier posts. I'm so glad I did that. I really like the recipes and instructions you share with your readers and I'll definitely be back. I hope you have a great day. Blessings…Mary
HI Mary, I'm so happy you found my site and enjoyed looking around. I hope you have been inspired by my ideas to go in to the kitchen and have some fun.
What is it about bunny butts that are soo cute?!?! 🙂 I am in love with these little guys! How clever! I would love to have you share these at my party going on!
http://www.pincushioncreations.com/2012/04/homemade-by-you-6.html
I found these at Living Life Intentionally. They are adorable! They also don't look overly complicated with I applaud!
These are so cute, I just had to click on the link from Toys in the Dryer link-up. Very creative!
that's so creative and cute 🙂
How adorable! Love these!
These are too cute! I have everything needed to make these!
Mrs. Delightful
www.ourdelightfulhome.blogspot.com
So cute! Somehow I don't think mine would look as good as the ones you made. Happy Easter!
Those are seriously cute! I've been seeing alot of bunny-tails on pinterest, but this one looks so EASY!
Just left a comment but not sure if it went through… LOVE your cookies! They are super cute!!
Maysem @ http://odetoinspiration.wordpress.com
Super cute idea!! LOVE them!
I LOVE your bunny butts!!! Oh my goodness these cookies are so darn cute.
Great job!
First time visiting your blog and I will definitely be back.
adorable, so simple but perfect!
I love that … they look awesome but it's also something that anyone could make and have success. Great idea – thanks for sharing!
Super Cute-I am so making these!
I love this idea…so simple. I just bought a box of vanilla wafers, and I can't wait to do these. Love your blog!
I really love these! Simple and cute:) You are so creative!
Sorry please remove prior comment I didn't notice it was for the face, clearly I need more sleep.
Couldn't you just dip the cookies in chocolate and then pipe the ears on to save time or is there a special reason you piped a chocolate circle down first that I'm not seeing?
These are so cute. Found you on Tip Junkie. Thanks for the share.
These are absolutely adorable- such a clever idea I love it!
These are adorable!! I love them! I'm so glad I found your idea!
So cute. Amazing blog! Found you on Ginger Snap Crafts.
Blythe
www.thedesperatecraftwives.blogspot.com
Cute as can be. You never cease to amaze me with your sweets.
Those are the cutest little bunny butts:-) Love how easy these are to do!!!
Wow…these are really cute Beth! Love them!
I Love your little bunny butt – covered in chocolate – YUM!
Brilliant!!! These are amazing!!
You can do as many bunny butts as you want! Let's face it, very few animals have cute tushes, never mind cute enough to depict in FOOD!
I agree!
I MUST make these – if I do, I'll be sure to link back to you! Love your ideas 🙂
I'd love to see your recreation of these bunnies!