Here comes Peter Cottontail… except he’s hiding in these clever cupcakes. The kids will be able to find ears and a tail among the grass and jelly beans. I ‘ve included a homemade recipe but if you’re in a hurry used a boxed mix and add the chopped Hershey’s eggs to the batter.
How to Make Hidden Bunnycakes Cupcakes #recipe
Recipe Type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 16
Hidden Bunnycakes cupcakes are a sweet Easter treat with the bunny “hidden” in the grass.
Ingredients
- To Make Cupcakes
- Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 2/3 cup cold milk
- 16 Hershey’s eggs, unwrapped and chopped into small pieces
- To decorate cupcakes:
- Ingredients:
- 64 Jolly Rancher Jelly Beans, 4 per cupcake
- 1/2 cup coconut
- 1 drop green food coloring
- 8 large marshmallows, cut in half
- Pink Sprinkles
- 16 mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Directions to make Cupcakes:
- Cream butter and sugar together in a large bowl. Beat in eggs. Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Sift flour mixture into butter mixture and mix well. Add vanilla and milk, beat until well blended. Stir in chopped eggs. Pour into greased cupcake pans and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes or until done. When cupcakes are cool, frost with buttercream frosting. Makes 16 Cupcakes.
- Directionsto decorate cupcakes:
- Place coconut in a small bowl. Add green food coloring and mix until all coconut is tinted. Top frosted cupcakes with tinted coconut. Split marshmallows almost completely with a wet knife to make ears. Add pink sprinkles to ears and place in middle of cupcakes. Place mini marshmallow behind “ears” for the tail. Add four Jolly Rancher jelly beans to each cupcake.
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Awww! These are just the cutest! What a fun and fantastic ideas.. I know some little kiddos that will adore these!
I love this, great easter ideas.
What a different and wonderful idea for Easter sunday. The kids would get a thrill out of these. They
are too precious.
I hope you got to make a batch with the kids, Amy!
I love this!!!Thanks for sharing!
these are so cute..I love them! I need to make some for Easter this year
These look great and I am sure that they are delicious!
Those are so cute! My kids would love them. It would be so fun to surprise them and make them together next week.
I love this time of year and all the goodies that come with it. Your cupcakes with the bunnies are so cute, we made some yesterday trying to start getting ideas for the big day. Will add this to our list.
aren’t those just the cutest things EVER!!!
Those are soo cute!
Pam, those are beyond cute. I just love them!!!
adorable! i love it!
Those are cute! My kids would love these, I’ll have to make these for them sometime.
What a super cute idea!!
Oh MY!!! How cute is that? Pinning this to try!!!
I love those! SOOO cute! I want to make these with my son! thank you for share you are so creative!
Did you get to make a batch with your son, Michelle? I hope he had a great time making these. 🙂
That is so cute and what a wonderful recipe for Easter.
How super cute is this…. loved this idea; thanks for sharing…. I have some Hershey at home, too may need to copy this idea 🙂
this would be a great Easter treat to make, I must make this with my daughter.
Oh so very cute. Wish I was this creative.
Oh those are so cute! I love how adorable they turned out!
Oh my goodness! Those are so cute! I must make these with my boys. Thanks for the great idea.
This is too cute! My toddler loves Hidden Bunnies.
We also love Hershey’s. They have the best Easter Candy! I shouldn’t read your post in the morning because now I am going to crave a Reese’s Peanut Butter egg all day! 😉