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.
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!
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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 light cocoa candy melts, melted
- 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 chocolate bunny 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 a small bowl of melted chocolate.
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Remove the cookie from the bowl and set it 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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Chill the chocolate bunny cookies in the freezer for 5-10 minutes just until the chocolate hardens.
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Repeat creating a total of 54 chocolate bunnies.
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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Ginger says
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
Beth Jackson Klosterboer says
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:)
MiaB says
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.
Beth Jackson Klosterboer says
Thanks Mia. YOU CAN DO IT! I'm sure of it:) Thanks for hosting Sharing Saturday.
Joanie Johnson says
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... 🙂
Beth Jackson Klosterboer says
Thanks Joanie. I'm glad you stopped by.
Beth (www.livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com) says
Sooo cute! I hope you had a wonderful Easter!! Thanks for linking up to TGIF - have a GREAT week =-)
Beth
Beth Jackson Klosterboer says
I did have a really nice Easter and I hope you did too!
Books4Learning says
Love these!
Earning My Cape says
These are sooo, sooo cute!!!
I'm a new follower! Please feel free to visit my blog anytime. 🙂
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Mama Jodi says
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!
Beth Jackson Klosterboer says
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.
Lolly Jane says
I just had to comment on these too- they are SO adorable!!! Love how creative you are!
Too cute 🙂 Hoppy Easter!
Shannah @ Just Us Four says
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.
meatballsandmilkshakes.com says
SO cute for Easter!
Mary says
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
Beth Jackson Klosterboer says
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.
Katie @ Pincushion Creations says
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!
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willowday says
I found these at Living Life Intentionally. They are adorable! They also don't look overly complicated with I applaud!
Julie @ Creekside Learning says
These are so cute, I just had to click on the link from Toys in the Dryer link-up. Very creative!
Cooking Rookie says
that's so creative and cute 🙂
Carolyn says
How adorable! Love these!
Our Delightful Home says
These are too cute! I have everything needed to make these!
Mrs. Delightful
www.ourdelightfulhome.blogspot.com
Jersey Girl Cooks says
So cute! Somehow I don't think mine would look as good as the ones you made. Happy Easter!
Ladies Holiday says
Those are seriously cute! I've been seeing alot of bunny-tails on pinterest, but this one looks so EASY!
Maysem says
Just left a comment but not sure if it went through... LOVE your cookies! They are super cute!!
Maysem @ http://odetoinspiration.wordpress.com