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Celebrate Easter with these fun rabbit cakes!

Easter is fast approaching and Bunny Bum cakes are perfect for a spring celebration.

A few years ago I organised an Easter Eggstravaganza event at Wood Green Animal Shelters at Heydon so I thought it would be a great opportunity to make an Easter themed cake! I was inspired by the rabbit cake I saw at TESCO but I thought I could make it a bit cuter and more interesting.

So here is my strawberry Bunny Bum cake!

What you need to make Bunny Bum cakes

• Cake mix
• Hemisphere cake tins or plenty of flat cake tins
• Buttercream-I went for Strawberry
• Fondant-green, white and pink
• A cake board
• a cake tool for texturizing

How to make Bunny Bum cakes

So first of all I made two strawberry flavoured cakes in hemisphere pans. But you could use oven safe bowls instead or carve from sheet cakes. I used a small and medium size. 

When these were finally ready, as hemisphere pans can be a little temperamental when baking, I then carved them to the right shape (and so they would fit on my board!).

Next I gave them a crumb coat with yummy strawberry buttercream. You can use strawberry flavouring which is available in all cake supply shops or selected supermarkets-mine is from ASDA. Jam (of the strong Extra variety) can also be used to flavour icing but this will be sweet!

I didn’t want them too sweet, and to maintain the look of the sphere, so there is no buttercream inside. I have found before that if you slice the cakes to add buttercream inside they can ‘slide’ especially in warmer weather.

Before covering the Bunny Bum cakes in fondant I quickly covered the cake board in green fondant to represent grass.

I then covered the cakes in white fondant and smoothed carefully with a clean hand.

To finish I made a little fondant tail and added some texture with a fork to represent the fluff. I also made two little feet with pink fondant toes! 

Hoppy Easter!

Other spring cake ideas

• Daisy flower cake
• Ice Cream cake pops
• Sandcastle cake