• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Hungry Happenings
  • RECIPES
    • All Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
    • Decorated Cookies
    • Decorated Cakes
    • Cheesecake Recipes
    • Everyday Desserts
    • Homemade Candy
    • Everyday Meals
    • Readers’ Gallery
    • Hungry Happenings Blog Posts
  • HOW TO
    • Chocolate Making Tips
    • Chocolate Making Course (video lessons)
    • Make Modeling Chocolate
      • Modeling Chocolate Recipe and Tutorial
      • How to Color Modeling Chocolate
      • How to Store and Work with Modeling Chocolate
      • How to Fix Greasy Modeling Chocolate
      • How to Fix Dry Modeling Chocolate
      • Use Colored Candy Melts to Make Candy Clay
    • Candy Clay Creations
    • How To Color White Chocolate and Candy Melts and Paint Candy Molds
    • How to Use Food Coloring Markers
  • HOLIDAYS
    • ALL HOLIDAY RECIPES
    • Valentine's Day
    • St. Patrick's Day
    • Easter
    • 4th of July
    • Halloween
      • Hungry Halloween
    • Thanksgiving
    • Christmas
    • New Year's Eve
    • MORE HOLIDAYS
      • Mother's Day
      • Father's Day
      • April Fools
      • Chinese New Year
      • Cinco de Mayo
      • Day of the Dead
      • Earth Day
      • Mardi Gras
  • PARTY FOOD
    • Super Bowl
    • Graduation
    • Birthday Party
    • March Madness
    • Summer Fun
    • Baby Shower
    • Wedding Shower
    • School/Teacher
    • Movie and T.V. Characters
    • Kid's Treats
    • Fun Party Recipes
  • MY COOKBOOKS
  • ABOUT
  • MY BLOGS
    • HowToMakeCerealTreats.com
    • HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
    • HowToMakeEasyFudge.com
    • TheSugarAcademy.com
menu icon
go to homepage
  • recipes
  • chocolate
  • about
  • cookbooks
  • subscribe
  • holiday recipes
  • Halloween recipes
  • party food
  • appetizers
  • decorated cheese balls
  • cute food for kids
  • dessert recipes
  • homemade chocolates recipes
  • homemade candy
  • decorated cakes
  • cupcake recpes
  • cheesecake recipes
  • cookie recipes
  • rice krispie treats recipes
  • fudge recipes
  • ice cream recipes
  • popcorn recipes
  • everyday meals
  • recipe roundups
  • readers' gallery
    • Facebook
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube
  • search icon
    Homepage link
    • recipes
    • chocolate
    • about
    • cookbooks
    • subscribe
    • holiday recipes
    • Halloween recipes
    • party food
    • appetizers
    • decorated cheese balls
    • cute food for kids
    • dessert recipes
    • homemade chocolates recipes
    • homemade candy
    • decorated cakes
    • cupcake recpes
    • cheesecake recipes
    • cookie recipes
    • rice krispie treats recipes
    • fudge recipes
    • ice cream recipes
    • popcorn recipes
    • everyday meals
    • recipe roundups
    • readers' gallery
    • Facebook
    • Pinterest
    • YouTube
  • ×
    Home » Holiday Treats and Recipes » Easter Recipes

    Ravenous Rabbit Cupcakes

    Published: Mar 12, '12 · Modified: Sep 3, '23 · By: Beth Klosterboer · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Show off your baking skills and impress your family and friends with these adorable Ravenous Rabbit Cupcakes! They are a delicious treat and everyone will be diving for these cupcakes like a rabbit diving for carrots!

    Show off your baking skills and impress your family and friends with these adorable Ravenous Rabbit Cupcakes! They are a delicious treat and everyone will be diving for these cupcakes like a rabbit diving for carrots!

    I couldn't wait to share these cute Easter cupcakes with you.

    You will notice a theme this Easter. I've gotten a bit obsessed with bunny butts. Isn't the one on the cupcake just adorable?

    I just love how the little ravenous rabbit is digging into the carrot patch. His cute little fuzzy tail and big floppy feat are sticking out of a pile of carrots.

    These cupcakes will each require quite a bit of time to hand-sculpt the bunny and all those carrots. I'm not saying you should run screaming from this project, I just want you to be aware of the work involved before you decide to make these the night before you need them.

    Unless you, yourself are the Energizer bunny, you'll want to give yourself plenty of time to make all the modeling chocolate pieces, but the end result it so worth the effort.

    Show off your baking skills and impress your family and friends with these adorable Ravenous Rabbit Cupcakes! They are a delicious treat and everyone will be diving for these cupcakes like a rabbit diving for carrots!

    Ravenous Rabbit Cupcakes (makes 12)

    Ingredients

    12 baked cupcakes
    1 ½ - 2 cups frosting
    1 recipe white modeling chocolate (or use about 20 ounces white fondant)
    orange, green, pink candy coloring
    Wilton White Picket Fence Cupcake Wrappers
    powdered sugar to dust work surface
    corn syrup to glue the modeling chocolate pieces together (or use water)

    Supplies needed:

    #12 round pastry tip and # 6 round pastry tips, optional
    rolling pin, optional
    fine tip paint brush (food only)
    toothpick
    knife
    pastry bag and large round decorating tip, optional

    Instructions:

    Show off your baking skills and impress your family and friends with these adorable Ravenous Rabbit Cupcakes! They are a delicious treat and everyone will be diving for these cupcakes like a rabbit diving for carrots!

    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.

    Show off your baking skills and impress your family and friends with these adorable Ravenous Rabbit Cupcakes! They are a delicious treat and everyone will be diving for these cupcakes like a rabbit diving for carrots!

    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 bunnies to dry for a while before handling them.

    Show off your baking skills and impress your family and friends with these adorable Ravenous Rabbit Cupcakes! They are a delicious treat and everyone will be diving for these cupcakes like a rabbit diving for carrots!

    Pinch off and color some modeling chocolate green. Color a large amount orange. Pinch off pea-sized pieces of orange and roll into balls. Then roll into carrot shapes. Pinch of tiny pieces of green and roll into very thin logs. Cut into ¼" or so pieces. Use a toothpick to create a hole in each carrot.

    Dab a bit of corn syrup into each hole. Insert a green log into each carrot.

    Flatten and cut the green to look like leaves. Use a knife to make indentations across each carrot. You will need a lot of carrots to cover your 12 cupcakes.

    All of the carrots pictured above went onto one cupcake. You don't need green on each and every carrot, as you'll want to put some on your cupcake, upside down.

    Show off your baking skills and impress your family and friends with these adorable Ravenous Rabbit Cupcakes! They are a delicious treat and everyone will be diving for these cupcakes like a rabbit diving for carrots!

    Wrap cupcakes with picket fence cupcake wrappers.  Frost cupcakes using a pastry bag and pastry tip or with a spoon.

    Set one rabbit in the center of the frosting.

    Surround the rabbit with lots of carrots.

    Show off your baking skills and impress your family and friends with these adorable Ravenous Rabbit Cupcakes! They are a delicious treat and everyone will be diving for these cupcakes like a rabbit diving for carrots!

    Your cupcakes are ready to serve. Store in an airtight container for up to a few days.

    Items used to create this project found on Amazon.com

    If this Easter Recipe interests you, then you should go and check out all these other delicious ideas.

    Celebrate the holiday with over 75 of the best Easter Recipes. See tutorials for making adorably cute Easter food including Bunny Butt Pretzels, Cheese Ball Chicks, Oreo Lambs, and more.

    • Author
    • Recent Posts
    Beth Klosterboer
    Beth Klosterboer
    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
    Beth Klosterboer
    Latest posts by Beth Klosterboer (see all)
    • Mini Peanut Butter Cheesecakes - June 20, 2023
    • Homemade Chocolate Easter Bunnies - April 3, 2023
    • Mini Basketball Cheeseburgers - February 15, 2023

    More Easter Recipes

    • Handmade chocolate Easter bunnies are painted with colored white chocolate.
      Homemade Chocolate Easter Bunnies
    • Easter cheese ball hatching chick decorated with cheese slices and served with crackers.
      Easter Cheese Ball (Cute Hatching Chick)
    • Easter Bunny Cupcakes
    • lemon cake chicks decorated with modeling chocolate or fondant eyes, beak, and feet
      Lemon Cake Chicks

    About Beth Klosterboer

    Reader Interactions

    Comments

      Please leave a comment. Cancel reply

      Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

      Recipe Rating




      This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

    1. Jen

      March 14, 2012 at 7:22 pm

      These are so cute. I am thankful for the photos of the steps. The bunny's tail is the best!

      Reply
    2. Erin

      March 14, 2012 at 4:30 pm

      These are amazing! I can't even believe it. You are incredible!!!!!! So pinning these!

      Reply
    3. Michelle Paige

      March 14, 2012 at 4:27 pm

      Absolutely adorable! Would you be willing to link this up to my Springtime Holiday Link Party? I'd love to have you! Thanks, Michelle http://michellepaige.blogspot.com/2012/02/springtime-holiday-link-party.html

      Reply
    4. Jana

      March 14, 2012 at 3:22 pm

      You are so talented! I absolutely love these!

      Reply
    5. Mary Sullivan Frasier

      March 14, 2012 at 12:12 pm

      How stinkin' cute are these!? Love them! I can't even imagine the time that went into making them. (bowing down to you)

      Stopping by from What's Cooking Wednesdays. Thank you so much for sharing these adorable little bunny bottom works of art! (pinning this)

      Reply
    6. Heather @ Raising Memories Blog

      March 14, 2012 at 1:37 am

      Oh my goodness, I love these so much!! And your pot of gold caramel apples... and everything else you post! I just found you & I love your blog! 🙂 I would also really love for you to link up some of these ideas on my link party called Sharing Time, here: http://www.raisingmemories.com/search/label/sharing%20time
      I hope you will!
      Have a great night 🙂
      ~Heather

      Reply
    7. colleen

      March 13, 2012 at 9:25 pm

      These are the cutest things EVA!! Although I will be a total cheater and use Lindt white chocolate balls (truffles whatever they are called) and make the rest by piping white chocolate for feet and tail and orange colored chocolate for the carrots. Thank you for sharing your idea!! <3 it!!

      Reply
    8. Karen @ Sugartown Sweets

      March 13, 2012 at 5:53 pm

      These are absolutely the cutest things i've seen in a long time! The *end* result is definitely worth the work! Love 'em! 🙂

      Reply
    9. KarenB

      March 13, 2012 at 5:42 pm

      OMG these are sooooooo cute!!! VERY creative!!!

      Reply
    10. MissCandiquik

      March 13, 2012 at 4:23 pm

      I love the little bunny butts! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by my blog...glad we found eachother!

      Sarah @ Miss CandiQuik

      Reply
    11. MyFudoâ„¢

      March 13, 2012 at 9:59 am

      I love your creativity. This is delightful!

      Reply
    12. simran

      March 13, 2012 at 5:19 am

      these are mind blowing!!super cute..........and your explanation rocks!great work

      Reply
    13. Trish - Sweetology101

      March 13, 2012 at 2:21 am

      This is just the cutest idea and execution, but I am not surprised to come here only to find this sweet bunny behindy! PS - the pot of gold caramel apple is so neat! hope the leprechaun brings you some gold!

      Reply
    14. Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust

      March 13, 2012 at 1:37 am

      Who knew I'd love bunny butts so much?! You learn something new everyday. Love these!

      Reply
    15. Blythe

      March 13, 2012 at 1:24 am

      These are too cute! Great job.
      Blythe
      www.thedesperatecraftwives.blogspot.com

      Reply
    16. Jersey Girl Cooks

      March 12, 2012 at 11:43 pm

      These are gorgeous! Dont think I could ever create something so cute and artstic as this.

      Reply
    17. Amy - while wearing heels

      March 12, 2012 at 10:35 pm

      Oh my goodness, that little bunny is so adorable. He is too adorable to eat. I think, my daughter would eat these veggies without giving me the slightest problem. You certainly are a talented lady!

      Amy @ whilewearingheels.blogspot.com

      Reply
    18. Happier Than a Pig in Mud

      March 12, 2012 at 10:30 pm

      Way too cute:@)

      Reply
    19. Pams Party

      March 12, 2012 at 7:29 pm

      These are ADORABLE!!!!

      Reply
    20. Lora

      March 12, 2012 at 6:42 pm

      These are so beyond adorable. Just fantastic work. Wow!

      Reply
    Newer Comments »

    Primary Sidebar

    Beth Jackson Klosterboer

    Welcome to Hungry Happenings!

    I'm Beth. I've been a professional chocolatier & baker for over 30 years, have written 5 cookbooks, and love creating fun food for holidays and special occasions.

    Read more about me →

    Popular

    • Mini cheesecakes collage of images with plain cheesecakes, cheesecake cups with toppings, and decorated edible flower cheesecakes.
      Mini Cheesecakes
    • Cakesicles with red and green drizzle, rainbow sprinkles, and chocolate drizzle
      How to make Cakesicles (cake pop popsicles)
    • Halloween appetizer - Jack Skellington Chicken Dip
      Halloween Appetizer - Jack Skellington Dip
    • pizza skulls filled with pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, and mini pepperoni.
      Pizza Skulls
    • four sugar skulls decorated with colorful royal icing flowers, hearts, spider webs and more on a black background
      Sugar Skull Video Tutorial
    • Cake Ball Brains are sure to creep out your friends and family at Halloween but they are really tasty treats.
      Cake Ball Brains Oozing Cherry Blood - Creepy Halloween Sweets
    • chocolate rice krispie treat turkeys
      Chocolate Dipped Rice Krispie Treat Turkey Pops
    • Giant Reese's Cup on a cake stand with a slice cut and served on a small dessert plate.
      Giant Peanut Butter Cup
    • skillet dip snowman with bread puffs surrounding hot chicken dip decorated with black olives and a carrot nose
      Skillet Dip Snowman - Christmas Appetizer
    • a stack of green copycake IHOP Grinch pancakes topped with cream cheese glaze, green whipped cream, and candy hearts on a white plate are set in front of a red and white striped cup filled with grinch hot chocolate
      Copycat IHOP Grinch Pancakes Recipe

    Buy my cookbooks

    Beth Jackson Klosterboer

    Welcome to Hungry Happenings!

    I'm Beth. I've been a professional chocolatier & baker for over 30 years, have written 5 cookbooks, and love creating fun food for holidays and special occasions.

    Read more about me →

    Popular

    • Mini cheesecakes collage of images with plain cheesecakes, cheesecake cups with toppings, and decorated edible flower cheesecakes.
      Mini Cheesecakes
    • Cakesicles with red and green drizzle, rainbow sprinkles, and chocolate drizzle
      How to make Cakesicles (cake pop popsicles)
    • Halloween appetizer - Jack Skellington Chicken Dip
      Halloween Appetizer - Jack Skellington Dip
    • pizza skulls filled with pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, and mini pepperoni.
      Pizza Skulls
    • four sugar skulls decorated with colorful royal icing flowers, hearts, spider webs and more on a black background
      Sugar Skull Video Tutorial
    • Cake Ball Brains are sure to creep out your friends and family at Halloween but they are really tasty treats.
      Cake Ball Brains Oozing Cherry Blood - Creepy Halloween Sweets
    • chocolate rice krispie treat turkeys
      Chocolate Dipped Rice Krispie Treat Turkey Pops
    • Giant Reese's Cup on a cake stand with a slice cut and served on a small dessert plate.
      Giant Peanut Butter Cup
    • skillet dip snowman with bread puffs surrounding hot chicken dip decorated with black olives and a carrot nose
      Skillet Dip Snowman - Christmas Appetizer
    • a stack of green copycake IHOP Grinch pancakes topped with cream cheese glaze, green whipped cream, and candy hearts on a white plate are set in front of a red and white striped cup filled with grinch hot chocolate
      Copycat IHOP Grinch Pancakes Recipe

    Buy my cookbooks

    Footer

    ↑ back to top

    use policies

    • privacy policy
    • photo-use policy
    • terms of service

    join us

    • subscribe (newsletter)
    • our online courses
    • readers' gallery

    contact

    • contact
    • about Beth
    • FAQ

    As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

    Copyright © 2023 Hungry Happenings