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.
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craftmomdawn
I like Hungry Happenings on FB. Going to go back and check out older posts.
craftmomdawn
These are absolutely adorable. Even my daughter though they were cute.
Marlene
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Marlene
I pinned this on Pinterest
Marlene
I like you on facebook
Marlene
Love the site Smidge and Pinch Cupcake and Posh Party Supplies,it would be hard to decide what I would get....I want so much lol. I would start off getting some decorating picks (couldn't believe the choices she had), then some straws...wow so many to choose from!!! By then my $25 would be gone....but I would continue to purchase more items....great store thanks for sharing with us. Wish I had found the site when I need decorating picks.....but I will need them again and now I know where to go....saved in my favorites.
Marlene
I love these, the bunny butts sticking up are just too cute!! <3 I am so happy you posted them because other wise I wouldn't have seen them. I love all the things you make.
Katy
i went to the website which is great and my sisters baby shower is coming up
so I would definitely get the rubber ducky and bubble sprinkles and the dinosaurs (its a boy)
katy
i'm still new to the blogging thing,But i have run into your dilemma as well.
You can search and search and find nothing like what you've thought of but as soon as you go to post it, it pops right up. I love these pops and the bunnies are super cute so i'm very glad you posted them. 🙂
Nancy LH
I just pinned this awesomeness!! 🙂
Nancy LH
Their website is awesome! I'd get some cupcake toppers, cookie cutters, awesome straws, edible beads/decorations...oh the endless posibilities!
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Nancy LH
These are super adorable! Thanks for the detailed instructions, I'm gonna try in making them!
jesscake
Oh. I will totally be purchasing the black matte sugar beads and yellow and white scalloped cupcake liners from Smidge and Pinch! Hopefully with my gift certificate ;). Their website is now on my favorites!
jesscake
I absolutely LOVE these cute bunny bootys! My kids will flip over them. I'm delving into modeling chocolate this week, these may be on my list of to dos!
Lori Stilger
Of COURSE I like you on FB! 😀
Lori Stilger
I think I'd order some of the cupcake liners - I LOVE polka dots, and those hot pink ones and black ones are SOOOOOOOOOOO cute! 😀
Lori Stilger
I LOVE your bunny butts 😀 You're so creative, Beth!!! :)I think they're adorable - and loved the cupcakes, too. 🙂 Thanks SO much for sharing your creativity - and for the generous giveaway!
Misbah
I am new here; just found you and love your blog already.Thankyou for Bunny hole tutorial.
Erin
So darn cute!
Susan
These are the cutest things ever. Thanks for sharing and for chance to win.