Chocolate Bunny Silhouettes made using Vanilla Wafer Cookies

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

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Chocolate Bunny Silhoutte

Prep Time

30 mins

Total Time

30 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

Ingredients

• 54 mini marshmallows
• 8 ounces milk chocolate or light cocoa candy melts melted & tempered or melted* (see recipe notes)
• 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 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 the melted chocolate or candy melts. 

4. Remove from the chocolate and set 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. Refrigerate if using pure milk chocolate or freeze if using candy melts for about 3-5 minutes until the chocolate hardens. 

7. Repeat creating a total of 54 chocolate bunnies. 

Recipe Notes

*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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Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com

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