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Ravenous Rabbit Cupcakes are sure to delight this Easter.

March 12, 2012 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!

Spring has come early here in Ohio. Over the weekend the sun shone brightly and warmed the air so that it was comfortable to be outside without a jacket. I did take some time to enjoy the great outdoors, but more of my time was spent in my kitchen. The next two months will be jam packed with blogging, chocolate making, and traveling, so I’m trying to get ahead and created 6 different Easter recipes. I couldn’t wait to share this one with you.

You will, over the next few weeks, notice a theme this Easter, as I’ve gotten a bit obsessed with bunny butts. Yep, I said bunny butts! Isn’t the one on the cupcake just adorable?

I am starting out with the most challenging of my Easter recipes. 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)

 Before you begin, you will need to make 1 batch of white modeling chocolate. Click here for the recipe and directions on adding color, as well as, troubleshooting information.

You’ll need:

12 baked cupcakes
1 1/2 – 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 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, 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 to make your circles. This will take more time, though.

Pinch off teaspoon size pieces of white modeling chocolate. Roll into balls, then flatten into an oblong shape creating 24 bunny feet.

Dip a fine tip paint brush 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.

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!

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 size 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 1/4″ 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.

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Filed Under: Easter Recipes Tagged With: animal themed food, animal themed treats, animals, bunny, bunny butt, Cake, carrot, Chocolate, cupcake, Modeling-Chocolate

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  1. Lora

    March 12, 2012 at 6:42 pm

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

    Reply
  2. Pams Party

    March 12, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    These are ADORABLE!!!!

    Reply
  3. Happier Than a Pig in Mud

    March 12, 2012 at 10:30 pm

    Way too cute:@)

    Reply
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Blythe

    March 13, 2012 at 1:24 am

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

    Reply
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. simran

    March 13, 2012 at 5:19 am

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

    Reply
  10. MyFudo™

    March 13, 2012 at 9:59 am

    I love your creativity. This is delightful!

    Reply
  11. 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
  12. KarenB

    March 13, 2012 at 5:42 pm

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

    Reply
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. Jana

    March 14, 2012 at 3:22 pm

    You are so talented! I absolutely love these!

    Reply
  18. 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
  19. Erin

    March 14, 2012 at 4:30 pm

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

    Reply
  20. 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
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