Easter bunny cake
Instructions
Cake
Frosting
Decoration
Tips
It can be tricky to grate marzipan. If you have trouble with it, put the marzipan in the fridge for about 30 minutes to let it firm up. This makes it much easier to grate.
Tips
For a clean cut of the bunny shape, let the cake cool completely. If it is even slightly warm, it might crumble when you cut it. In addition, it should be cold when you top it with the frosting so this does not melt or soften.
Tips
Instead of decorating the cake with all the small peaks of frosting, you can spread the frosting smoothly over the cake with a palette knife or the back of a spoon. You will not get all the 3D-like details, but it will still be beautiful and hold the fondant decorations well.
Ingredients
Cake
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Soft butter or spreadable
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400 g |
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Sugar
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450 g |
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Vanilla sugar
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2½ tsp |
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Marzipan, coarsely grated
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500 g |
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Almond flour
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250 g |
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Wheat flour
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125 g |
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Salt
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1½ tsp |
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Eggs
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6 |
Frosting
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White chocolate
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115 g |
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Soft butter
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200 g |
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Icing sugar
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200 g |
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Cream cheese
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150 g |
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Vanilla paste or vanilla essence
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1 tsp |
Decoration
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Black and pink fondant
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Make a cute Easter bunny cake – sure to make everyone smile
Celebrate Easter with a beautiful bunny-shaped dessert that is as tasty as it is adorable. Our Easter bunny cake is guaranteed to bring joy and smiles to your holiday table with its decorative frosting and fondant work. It is perfect for an Easter dessert table, adding a playful touch and good flavour.
Enjoy a moist cake with marzipan and vanilla
This recipe offers a moist cake with a delicious depth of flavour in every bite. It contains a sumptuous blend of nutty marzipan and sweet vanilla. The rich almond essence of marzipan melds seamlessly with the sweet, aromatic vanilla notes, creating a luxurious flavour experience.
Refreshing notes from lemon zest
The sweet, nutty flavour in the cake is balanced by freshly grated lemon zest. The tangy addition infuses the cake with a burst of citrus that cuts through the richness and adds a refreshing aroma. Its bright flavour enhances the overall flavour profile of the cake and creates a perfectly balanced eating experience. Perfect for spring and Easter celebrations, lemon zest ensures your cake is light, refreshing, and irresistibly fragrant. Perhaps you also want to try some of our other zesty recipes, for example, these easy lemon muffins, this delicious lemon mousse cake, or this classic lemon meringue pie.
Use cream cheese frosting and fondant to conjure up an Easter bunny
The bunny-shaped cut-out cake base is only the first part of creating the Easter bunny cake. Frosting and fondant are what give it the festive, adorable bunny look. The frosting is a classic cream cheese frosting with a twist: white chocolate. The white chocolate adds a rich, creamy depth, enhancing the flavour of the frosting and providing a luxurious texture that pipes easily onto the cake. The coloured fondant finishes the bunny look with cute pink ears, a pink nose, a smiley mouth, and big, black eyes.
Add your own touch
The sweet marzipan and almond cake base can be a canvas for other flavours as well. You can replace the lemon zest with orange zest for a different citrus note and add orange zest to the frosting, too. Lime is also a good idea, and if you add lime zest with shredded coconut to the batter, you create a tropical twist on the otherwise sweet Easter bunny cake recipe. For a fruity touch, incorporate raspberry puree or jam into the batter or fold whole raspberries into it. Raspberry pairs wonderfully with the white chocolate in the frosting. Fresh or frozen blueberries are also delicious folded into the batter, as they go very well with lemon and white chocolate.
Ideas for varying the decoration
For a more colourful look, use food colouring to tint the frosting in soft pastel shades like pink, blue, yellow, or green. You can use different colours for different parts of the bunny, such as pink ears and, if you add this to the cut-out shape, a blue bowtie. For a textured fur effect, sprinkle shredded coconut over the bunny. You can tint the coconut with food colouring to match any colour theme you are going for. Edible flowers will also look beautiful on the Easter bunny cake, for example, around the ears or tracing the edge of the shape. It will give it a beautiful springtime look, and you can use flowers like pansies, violas, and marigolds. Instead of fondant, you can use various candies for the bunny's features. Jelly beans can serve as eyes and nose, liquorice strings for whiskers, and pink wine gums for the ears.
