Easter bunny cupcakes
These cute Easter bunny cupcakes are a simple bake for kids to enjoy this Easter. Even little chefs will love the look of these adorable bunnies.
Easter is a great time to bake with children and these bunny cupcakes are the perfect place to start. There are loads of ways of taking a simple recipe and making it more fun, by either adding in some extra Easter or mini eggs or making a cute Easter character. I’d seen someone use marshmallows for bunny ears so thought they would be perfect for some sweet Easter bunny cupcakes. It was easier than I thought it might be to do, although I’m not sure whether they look more like mice or bunnies! Either way, my kids loved them and I think they’re something we’ll do again when we next do some Easter baking.
How can kids help make these Easter bunny cupcakes?
Cupcakes are always an easy bake for kids to help with. Children will get to help with measuring and mixing the ingredients, before spooning them out into the cupcake cases.
Once you make the frosting, your kids can help pipe it onto each cupcake to make each little bunny. I also got my kids to help make the bunny ears – cutting the marshmallow makes them quite sticky, but as long as your kids don’t mind getting sticky fingers they can then dip them into the sprinkles to make the ears. If your kids don’t want to get sticky fingers, they can help add the sprinkles and eyes to decorate the faces.
Other easy Easter bakes
If you liked these Easter bunny cupcakes check out some of our other easy Easter bakes for kids.
Hot cross buns
Chocolate hot cross buns
Easer bunny cookies
Mini egg cookies
Easter fudge
Easter rocky road
Chocolate nests
Easter chick cupcakes
Hot cross muffins
Mini Egg cupcakes
Easter cookie bar
Mini Egg loaf cake
Mini Egg cheesecake
Useful equipment
You might need the following baking tools/gadgets to make these Easter chick cupcakes
Digital scales
Mixing bowl
Wooden spoons
Measuring cup
Measuring spoons
Muffin tin
Cupcake cases
Wire rack
Piping bag
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Serves: 8
Time: 20 minutes plus 12 minutes baking plus 10 minutes decorating
Difficulty: a wee bit harder
Ingredients
120g (1 cup) plain / All-purpose flour
140g (2/3 cup) caster sugar
1.5 tsp baking powder
A pinch of salt
40g (1/3 cup) unsalted butter, softened
120ml milk (whole milk if possible)
1 egg, large
¼ tsp vanilla extract
For the vanilla frosting
250g icing /confectioners sugar
80g butter
25ml milk
a few drops of vanilla extract
To decorate
White marshmallows
Red chocolate drops
Googly eyes
Chocolate sprinkles
How to make Easter bunny cupcakes
Preheat your oven to 170C / 160C Fan / 330F and line a muffin tin with paper cupcake cases
Mix the dry ingredients
Get your kids to measure the flour and caster sugar and add them to a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer.
While they are doing that, add the baking powder and salt.
Add the butter into the flour and sugar and mix it together using the k paddle of your mixer or a handheld mixer (or your fingers) until you have a sandy/breadcrumb texture.
Add the wet ingredients
Get your kids to measure the milk. The easiest and most accurate way of doing this is using the ml setting of your digital scales if you have them. Then, add the milk into your mixing bowl.
Add the egg – get you kids to crack it first into a separate bowl in case they get any shell in, then add it your mixing bowl. Add the vanilla extract while they’re doing this.
Make the cupcakes
Mix everything together until you have a nice smooth batter.
Fill each of your cupcake cases with batter until they are about ¾ full. We tried using our ice cream scoop to do this, and it worked beautifully – it gave us just the right amount and the shape of the scoop meant we hardly spilled a drop!
Bake the cupcakes
Bake the cupcakes in the oven for 12-15 minutes. They’re ready when they have risen, and turned a nice golden brown colour. You can also check using a metal skewer – poke it in the middle and if it comes out clean, they’re definitely done. Ideally they should have a nice flat top. Turn your tray in the oven half way through if one half is cooking faster than the other.
Remove the cupcakes from the oven and leave them to cool in their tray for a few minutes. Then take them out and leave them to cool fully on a wire rack.
Make the vanilla frosting.
Mix the icing sugar, and butter in a large bowl or free-standing mixer. Do this at a slow speed to begin with, otherwise the icing will go everywhere!
Slowly add the milk and a few drops of vanilla extract. Turn the speed of your mixer up and leave it mixing for 5 minutes or so. The longer you mix it the softer and fluffier it becomes.
Decorate the Easter bunny cupcakes
Either pipe the frosting on to your cupcakes or use a pallet knife or knife to spread the icing on top.
To make the rabbit, pour some pink sprinkles into a bowl, then cut a white marshmallow in half diagonally. Take the inside and dab it in the sprinkles until they cover all the sticky side of the marshmallow then arrange them on top of your cupcake. Add some eyes, a chocolate drop nose and some sprinkles for whiskers. You can let your kids do this, or do some of the fiddly bits yourself.
Enjoy.
Easter bunny cupcakes
Ingredients
- 120 g (1 cup) plain / All-purpose flour
- 140 g (2/3 cup) caster sugar
- 1.5 tsp baking powder
- A pinch of salt
- 40 g (1/3 cup) unsalted butter, softened
- 120 ml milk whole milk if possible
- 1 egg large
- ¼ tsp vanilla extract
For the vanilla frosting
- 250 g icing /confectioners sugar
- 80 g butter
- 25 ml milk
- a few drops of vanilla extract
To decorate
- White marshmallows
- Red chocolate drops
- Googly eyes
- Chocolate sprinkles
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 170C / 160C Fan / 330F and line a muffin tin with paper cupcake cases
Mix the dry ingredients
- Measure the flour and caster sugar and add them to a large mixing bowl or freestanding mixer. Add the baking powder and salt.
- Add the butter into the flour and sugar and mix it together using the k paddle of your mixer or a handheld mixer (or your fingers) until you have a sandy/breadcrumb texture.
Add the wet ingredients
- Measure the milk and add it to your mixing bowl. Next add the egg and vanilla extract.
Bake the cupcakes
- Mix everything together until you have a nice smooth batter.
- Fill each of your cupcake cases with batter until they are about ¾ full.
Bake the cupcakes
- Bake the cupcakes in the oven for 12-15 minutes. They're ready when they have risen, and turned a nice golden brown colour. You can also check using a metal skewer – poke it in the middle and if it comes out clean, they're definitely done. Ideally they should have a nice flat top.
- Remove the cupcakes from the oven and leave them to cool in their tray for a few minutes. Then take them out and leave them to cool fully on a wire rack.
Make the vanilla frosting.
- Mix the icing sugar, and butter in a large bowl or free-standing mixer.
- Slowly add the milk and a few drops of vanilla extract. Turn the speed of your mixer up and leave it mixing for 5 minutes or so. The longer you mix it the softer and fluffier it becomes.
Decorate the Easter bunny cupcakes
- Either pipe the frosting on to your cupcakes or use a pallet knife or knife to spread the icing on top.
- To make the rabbit, pour some pink sprinkles into a bowl, then cut a white marshmallow in half diagonally. Take the inside and dab it in the sprinkles until they cover all the sticky side of the marshmallow then arrange them on top of your cupcake. Add some eyes, a chocolate drop nose and some sprinkles for whiskers.
Notes
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