Adorable Easter bunny cupcakes recipe

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A soft vanilla cupcake provides the perfect base to create these yummy Easter Bunny Cupcakes, and they really couldn’t be any easier to make – or eat! This is a great recipe to make with the kids, and you can also make these cupcakes a day or two in advance and then set the kids up to decorate them.

Makes: 12 cupcakes
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 50 mins

Easter Bunny cupcakes recipe

Ingredients

125g butter – softened
2/3 cup caster sugar
1 ½ cups self raising flour
½ cup milk
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs

For the icing/decorations
250g butter – softened
4 cups icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
12 marshmallows – cut in half
12 pink Smarties

Method

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C and line a 12 hole muffin tin with paper cases.

Easter Bunny cupcakes recipe

2. Place the softened butter, caster sugar, self raising flour, milk, vanilla extract and eggs into the bowl of an electric mixer and mix on medium speed for 3 minutes or until the mixture is smooth and creamy.

Easter Bunny cupcakes recipe

3. Spoon the cupcake mixture into the prepared muffin tin and bake for 20 minutes or until the cupcakes are golden and cooked through when tested with a skewer.

Easter Bunny cupcakes recipe

4. After 5 minutes, carefully transfer the cupcakes to a wire rack to cool completely.

To decorate

1. Sift the icing sugar into a small bowl and set aside until needed.

2. In an electric mixer, beat the butter until it’s pale and creamy.

3. With the mixer on a low speed, gradually add the icing sugar and vanilla essence and beat well until combined.

4. Transfer your buttercream into a piping bag with a star tip and pipe the top of the cooled cupcakes.

5. Cut a marshmallow in half for the Easter Bunny ‘ears’ and place on top of the each cupcake, then add the pink Smartie ‘nose’. Continue until all of the cupcakes have been decorated. You can then store these cupcakes in an airtight container until needed.

Easter Bunny cupcakes recipe

 

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