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Coconut Bunny Cupcakes

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By Amanda Formaro
Updated May 17, 2022
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These adorable bunny cupcakes are easy to make and decorate, and they'll do double duty as a darling centerpiece at your Easter brunch.

Coconut Bunny Cupcakes

  • Prep Time 35 min
  • Total 2 hr 15 min
  • Servings 24
  • Ingredients 10
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Ingredients

Cupcakes

Decorations

  • 1 tub (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Vanilla Frosting
  • 48 sticks gum in white (or other colors such as yellow, blue, green)
  • 24 sticks pink gum
  • 24 miniature marshmallows (white or colors)
  • 24 pink candies (mini chewy sweet and tart candies)
  • 1 tube Betty Crocker™ black decorating gel
  • 2 1/2 cups sweetened flaked coconut
  • 1 drop each food color: red, green, blue, yellow

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 350°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for cupcakes, using water, oil and egg. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
  • Step 
    2
    Meanwhile, divide coconut among five small bowls, about 1/2 cup each. Add 1 drop of red food color to one bowl and mix with a spoon. Finish mixing using your fingers to lift and gently rub coconut. Repeat for each color to make a bowl of yellow, blue, pink, green and white coconut.
  • Step 
    3
    Prepare ears by stacking two of the same color gum sticks on top of each other; trim into bunny ears using kitchen shears. For the center of each ear, cut a pink stick of gum in half lengthwise, trim about half an inch off of the end to trim into ear shape. Use a little frosting to “glue” the pink centers to the white gum ears.
  • Step 
    4
    To ensure that the coconut sticks to your frosting, frost one cupcake then immediately turn upside down, dipping top of the frosted cupcake into coconut. Repeat frosting and dipping for all cupcakes.
  • Step 
    5
    To add the bunny features, use a toothpick to create two slits in the top of the cupcake, then insert the ears into the slits. Cut a miniature marshmallow in half. Add a dot of frosting to the cut side of the marshmallows; press onto the front of the cupcake to create the paws. Gently press a pink candy on for nose; use black decorator gel to add the eyes.

Nutrition

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