Mini Bunny Cakes

Instead of dying eggs….I dyed cake.

My heart was set on baking carrot cake until I stumbled upon this dessert on Pinterest. It was so much fun to make and absolutely love the Spring colors!!

I was able to make four (4) mini cakes — purchased small boxes from Michael’s and shared these adorable cakes with a couple of my friends kids. Of course, I kept a mini for myself. It was moist & sweet! Hope you all enjoyed your holiday weekend : )

 

Ingredients:

• 2 boxes white cake mix
• buttercream frosting
• Wilton food coloring
• Jumbo marshmallows
• pink sparkling sugar
• parchment paper
• round cookie cutter
• pink jelly jeans
• decorating tip
• decorating bag

1. Prepare batter from two boxes of White Cake mix and split into four equal portions
2. Tint each portion a different color – pink, yellow, purple and blue
3. Line a medium sized cookie sheet with parchment paper and pour batter onto cookie sheet. Let it settle on a flat surface for 15 minutes
4. Bakes the cakes according to instructions on the cake box
5. Let cool
6. Use a round cookie cutter to cut out the cake layers
7. Make a batch of your best buttercream frosting
8. Add a circle of frosting between each layer of cake
9. Use a Wilton 2D or tip of choice with decorating bag and pipe a full circle onto each cake (as your layer)
10. Make the bunny ears with marshmallows and sparkling sugar. Slice or cut two diagonal pieces of marshmallow. Lay the sticky part of marshmallow into the pink sugar.
11. Stick the pink marshmallows into ear position and use a jellybean to make your nose.

Note: I swirled one circle along the edge of each layer and one small dollop in the middle. Decorate top layer.