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    Home » Recipes » Chocolates

    Chocolate Bunny Cookies

    Modified: Aug 14, '23 · Published: Apr 3, '12 · By: Beth Klosterboer · Commission earned on paid or sponsored links.

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    Fill your Easter baskets with these adorable Chocolate Bunny Cookies. They are simple to make using chocolate-dipped vanilla wafer cookies and fluffy marshmallow tails.

    chocolate bunny cookies made with chocolate-dipped vanilla wafers and mini marshmallow tails all sitting in green coconut grass.

    The chocolate-dipped bunny cookies will look so cute nestled in among homemade Chocolate Easter Bunnies, homemade chocolate eggs, hand-painted Easter lollipops, and sour Gummy Bunnies in your Easter baskets.

    If you prefer, you can serve them for dessert on a platter filled with edible Easter grass or even use them to top cupcakes.

    They are super easy to make using just three ingredients: vanilla wafers, chocolate or candy melts, and mini marshmallows.

    So, let's make some chocolate bunny cookies!

    chocolate-dipped bunny cookies ingredients including vanilla wafers, mini marshmallows, and light cocoa candy melts.

    Ingredients

    This recipe makes 54 chocolate-dipped bunny cookies.

    light cocoa candy melts or pure milk chocolate (see notes below)*
    vanilla wafer cookies
    mini marshmallows

    *What chocolate should I use to make these bunnies?

    You can use candy melts (compound chocolate) or pure milk chocolate to make these bunnies.

    • Compound chocolate/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.
    • 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.
    • Read my Chocolate Making Tips page for detailed information regarding the types of chocolate and how to melt each of them.

    Supplies

    disposable pastry bag, a zip-top bag,
    or a squeeze bottle fitted with a small round pastry tip
    parchment paper
    baking sheets
    fork or a chocolate dipping fork

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    Instructions

    Nilla Wafers and mini marshmallows rolled into fluffy little bunny tails.

    Make marshmallow bunny tails.

    • 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.
    a bowl of melted light cocoa candy melts, a squeezeit bottle filled with the melted chocolate, vanilla wafers, and mini marshmallow bunny tails.

    Get the chocolate ready.

    • 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.
    piping chocolate bunny heads onto parchment paper using a squeeze bottle filled with melted light cocoa candy melts.

    Pipe chocolate bunny heads.

    • 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.
    making chocolate-dipped bunny cookies by dipping a vanilla wafer into chocolate and adding it to a chocolate bunny head.

    Dip vanilla wafer cookies in chocolate.

    • 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.
    adding a fluffy marshmallow tail to a chocolate bunny cookie.

    Add a marshmallow tail.

    • 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 reheat your candy coating.
      • Place it in the microwave and heat it for 10 seconds, then stir.
      • If needed, heat for 10 more seconds, but don't overheat 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.
    chocolate bunny cookies sitting in green coconut grass.

    To use these chocolate Easter bunnies as a centerpiece on your table sprinkle green-colored coconut onto a serving tray or plate.

    • To color the coconut green, place your coconut in a zip-top bag, add a few drops of green liquid food coloring, shake the bag vigorously, and 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.

    Variations

    cute Easter bunny cupcakes topped with frosting grass and a chocolate Easter bunny

    You can use white Sixlets instead of mini marshmallows to make the bunny tails. These bunny cookies will look so cute on cupcakes. See my Bunny Cupcakes recipe for details.

    Related Recipes

    See all of my Easter recipes, here.

    Recipe

    chocolate bunny cookies made with chocolate-dipped vanilla wafers and mini marshmallow tails all sitting in green coconut grass.
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    Chocolate Bunny Cookies
    Prep Time
    45 mins
    Cook Time
    0 mins
     

    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. 

    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: American
    Keyword: chocolate bunny
    Servings: 54 bunnies
    Calories: 42 kcal
    Author: Beth Klosterboer
    Ingredients
    • 54 mini marshmallows
    • 8 ounces light cocoa candy melts, melted
    • 54 vanilla wafer cookies
    Instructions
    1. Roll mini marshmallows in the palm of your hands until they shape into fluffy bunny tails. 

    2. Pipe one small chocolate bunny head (a little smaller than a vanilla wafer) and two ears onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. 

    3. Dip a vanilla wafer cookie into a small bowl of melted chocolate. 

    4. Remove the cookie from the bowl and set it right next to the chocolate head/ears creating the body for the bunny. 

    5. Immediately attach one marshmallow bunny tail along the bottom edge of the chocolate dipped cookie. 

    6. Chill the chocolate bunny cookies in the freezer for 5-10 minutes just until the chocolate hardens.

    7. Repeat creating a total of 54 chocolate bunnies. 

    Recipe Notes

    Chocolate

    You can use pure milk chocolate to make your bunny cookies if you'd like but you must melt and temper it (heat and cool it to exact temperatures) in order for the chocolate to harden properly. Candy melts can simply be melted. See the Hungry Happenings' Chocolate Making Tips Page for details. 

    Storage

    Store your chocolate-dipped bunnies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 months depending on the best-buy date marked on the cookies. 

     

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    1. odetoinspiration says

      April 05, 2012 at 2:21 pm

      Super cute idea!! LOVE them!

      Reply
    2. Mandy says

      April 05, 2012 at 4:06 am

      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.

      Reply
    3. sugarswings says

      April 05, 2012 at 12:41 am

      adorable, so simple but perfect!

      Reply
    4. Randi~Dukes and Duchesses says

      April 04, 2012 at 5:20 pm

      I love that ... they look awesome but it's also something that anyone could make and have success. Great idea - thanks for sharing!

      Reply
    5. Susan Crabtree says

      April 04, 2012 at 4:26 pm

      Super Cute-I am so making these!

      Reply
    6. Teach1 says

      April 04, 2012 at 1:42 pm

      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!

      Reply
    7. Sue says

      April 04, 2012 at 6:19 am

      I really love these! Simple and cute:) You are so creative!

      Reply
    8. Laura Maria says

      April 04, 2012 at 4:27 am

      Sorry please remove prior comment I didn't notice it was for the face, clearly I need more sleep.

      Reply
    9. Laura Maria says

      April 04, 2012 at 4:26 am

      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?

      Reply
    10. Rita says

      April 04, 2012 at 2:52 am

      These are so cute. Found you on Tip Junkie. Thanks for the share.

      Reply
    11. Meg@MegaCrafty says

      April 04, 2012 at 1:25 am

      These are absolutely adorable- such a clever idea I love it!

      Reply
    12. Jenny@daysofchalkandchocolate says

      April 04, 2012 at 1:15 am

      These are adorable!! I love them! I'm so glad I found your idea!

      Reply
    13. Blythe says

      April 04, 2012 at 12:46 am

      So cute. Amazing blog! Found you on Ginger Snap Crafts.
      Blythe
      www.thedesperatecraftwives.blogspot.com

      Reply
    14. Linda says

      April 03, 2012 at 11:22 pm

      Cute as can be. You never cease to amaze me with your sweets.

      Reply
    15. Jocelyn says

      April 03, 2012 at 6:53 pm

      Those are the cutest little bunny butts:-) Love how easy these are to do!!!

      Reply
    16. Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com says

      April 03, 2012 at 5:52 pm

      Wow...these are really cute Beth! Love them!

      Reply
    17. The Partiologist says

      April 03, 2012 at 5:30 pm

      I Love your little bunny butt - covered in chocolate - YUM!

      Reply
    18. The BearFoot Baker says

      April 03, 2012 at 4:02 pm

      Brilliant!!! These are amazing!!

      Reply
    19. grendelskin says

      April 03, 2012 at 3:21 pm

      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!

      Reply
      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer says

        April 03, 2012 at 4:04 pm

        I agree!

        Reply
    20. MissCandiquik says

      April 03, 2012 at 2:52 pm

      I MUST make these - if I do, I'll be sure to link back to you! Love your ideas 🙂

      Reply
      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer says

        April 03, 2012 at 4:05 pm

        I'd love to see your recreation of these bunnies!

        Reply
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