These adorably cute Bunny Butt Push-Up Pops are as fun to make as they are to eat. Serve them for Easter dessert. The whole family will love them.
I LOVE this Easter push pop treat and am so excited to share it with you. Push-up pops are all the rage right now and they are the perfect container to use for this fun dessert.
Each push-pop tube is filled with chocolate cake dirt and green coconut grass topped with a yummy white chocolate bunny.
I hope you have fun making this Easter Recipe. I know your party guests will enjoy eating these cute treats.
Down the Bunny Hole Push-Up Pop Treats (makes 12)
Ingredients
1 recipe white modeling chocolate
pink candy coloring
powdered sugar to dust work surface
corn syrup to "glue" the modeling chocolate pieces together
12 chocolate cupcakes (or 1 - 8" cake)
1 cup chocolate frosting
1 cup sweetened coconut and green food coloring - If you or your kids don't like coconut, you can use edible Easter grass. It comes in long strands which could easily be cut into smaller pieces. You might need two packages.
Supplies
#12 round pastry tip and # 6 round pastry tips, optional
rolling pin, optional
12 push-up pop containers
pastry bag or zip-top bag
quart size zip top bag
Instructions
Optional: Pinch off about two tablespoons of white modeling chocolate and color it light pink. Note: The pink candy coloring is vibrant, so use just a tiny amount of it to make your pink.
Lightly dust the work surface with powdered sugar. Roll out the pink modeling chocolate as thin as possible. Press the small end of the #6 round pastry tip into the clay, twist, and then pull up.
Continue doing this until you fill the pastry tip with small rounds of pink modeling chocolate. Turn it upside down and allow rounds to fall out. You'll need 72 tiny rounds. Do the same making 24 larger rounds using the #12 tip.
Alternately: you could just pinch off very small amounts of the pink modeling chocolate and roll them into balls then flatten them to make your circles. This will take more time, though.
Pinch off teaspoon-sized pieces of white modeling chocolate. Roll into balls, then flatten into an oblong shape creating 24 bunny feet.
Dip a fine-tip paintbrush or toothpick into corn syrup. Brush onto the center of each foot. Press one pink round onto each foot. Brush three small dots of corn syrup around the edge of each foot and press on three tiny pink rounds. You can use water instead for this step. I think the corn syrup will hold the larger pieces in the next step a bit better than the water, though.
Pinch off 12 pieces of white modeling chocolate (a little less than a tablespoon) and roll them into balls for the bunny bodies. Pinch off 12 pea-size pieces of white and roll them into balls for the tails.
Pinch off 24 slightly smaller pieces and roll into balls, then flatten on either side to make little legs. Brush the top of each large ball with a dab of corn syrup. Attach a tail.
To make your tails look fuzzy, use a knife to jab at the ball pulling out little tufts of modeling chocolate all around it. Attach two legs with corn syrup then attach a foot on each leg.
Allow your modeling chocolate bunny butts to dry for at least an hour so they are easier to handle.
If you don't have a stand for your push-up pops, you'll want to secure them somehow before filling them with the cake. I filled a large basket with shredded paper and it worked great, but I'm thinking about buying a stand for future use.
I'm sure it is much easier if you have one to keep the push pops from toppling over while you fill them. Plus it offers a wonderful way to display your push pop treats.
Crumble up the cupcakes and stir in 2 tablespoons of chocolate frosting. You want the mixture to be loose and crumbly so it looks like dirt. I mixed my cake and frosting in my Kitchen-Aid Mixer, which worked great.
Assemble the push-up pop containers then fill them about ¾ full with the crumbled cake.
Put the remaining frosting in a pastry bag or zip-top bag snip off the tip and pipe some frosting into the center of each push-up pop (don't fill to the edge, you want the coconut to show around the edge, not the frosting.)
Put coconut in a zip-top bag. Add a few drops of green food coloring, close the bag, and shake. Add more coloring if needed, and shake again, being sure all the coconut is colored green.
Sprinkle the green coconut around the frosting, filling each container to the top. Pipe on a bit more frosting in the center of the coconut. Press one bunny butt onto the frosting.
Your Down the Bunny Hole Push-Up Pop Treats are ready to serve. You can cover them with plastic wrap and keep them at room temperature for a day, maybe two.
Items used to make this project are available on Amazon.com. I earn a small commission when you use the Amazon links on this blog to make a purchase at no extra cost to you.
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Kimberly
wow! i am in awe. i found this via facebook. i liked you there then came here.
ELNM
Smidge & Pinch is great. I like their edible cupcake toppers, especially the Diva ones! Thanks!
ELNM
I like Hungry Happenings on Facebook!
ELNM
Your push-up pops are the most adorable things I have seen in a long time!! I've never tried modeling chocolate, but now I might. Thanks for the chance to win!
lisa
adorable...my husband drilled some holes in a scrap piece of wood and made me a push-up pop
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Beth Jackson Klosterboer
That is a great idea. I'll have to look around to see what we have to use to make a stand. I always like cheap alternatives!
Anonymous
Found the link on facebook. These are so cute, such a wonderful Easter treat. Any child or adult would love to eat one of these. I am so happy to have found these. Thank you so much for your great creations. 🙂
Melissa M
Also, I love those cute little paper colored straws on Smidge & Pinch! And she has some very cute cookie cutters!
Melissa M
I also like you on face book
Melissa M
These are so cute! I often have these awesome ideas, then the next day, I see someone else did too! You have to remember Great Minds Think Alike!
melissamandella@yahoo.com
Unknown
These are so cute!
Danielle
This idea is so darn adorable!
Danielle
I like HH on FB 🙂
sandy
i will so pin this its way to cool not tooo
sandy
i like the cookie cutters its hard to pick just one but if i had tooo it would be the magic wand one
sandy
i like on FB
Karen @ Sugartown Sweets
I *liked* your blog on FB! On my 1st comment, i was so excited to post it that i didn't even read the post first..I just looked at the photos. So..it's really hard when you've come up with a great idea only to find someone else did too! I'm pretty new to blogging, and I'm absolutely learning as i go. My 2nd post was making a cookie another blogger had already made! I know now..don't do it! But as i see it, you had already come up with the cupcake..and I just love your push pop design. I'm SO glad you decided to post it! 🙂
Karen @ Sugartown Sweets
Awesome~Awesome~Awesome!! I thought your cupcake version was *off-the-charts* cute! These truly are extraordinary! I've had 2 dozen push-pops for over a year. I wanted to save them for my own special creation. You have inspired me to start thinking again! 🙂
diane
I am so glad I found this, it has given me a great idea for the 100 push pop containers I have. I stopped by the smidge and pinch site and I would love everyone of the cupcake liners, the colors are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas and the fun blog, I look forward to seeing your posts on face book. Again thanks for sharing
diane
I think this is an adorable idea and since I have about a 100 push pop containers I think might try this, I also would love to buy each and every cupcake liner with the gift card if I were to win the give away and I look forward to reading your face book page and more of your blog, great ideas and fun to read. Thanks for sharing,
Lindy@Itsy Bitsy Paper
These are fantastic! I just want to laugh out loud when I look at the picture. Too cute