Bunny Bum Cakes
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
