Easy Easter Bunny Cake
Growing up my mother used to make this Easter Bunny Cake each year.  I love the combination of buttercream frosting and coconut.  Here’s how this one was made:

Here’s what you’ll need:

1 white boxed cake mix (make per instructions on box)

1 double-batch of buttercream frosting (click for recipe)

2 bags of sweetened coconut flakes

green food coloring

poster board (for ears)

jelly beans (for eyes)

First I made a white cake per the directions on the box.  I baked the cake in a straight-sided round bundt pan.  After letting the cake cool come I sliced the cake in half.  Here’s a picture of what it looked like.  It’s not perfect.  That’s ok.  I’ll show you how to fix any cracks or dings.

Two halves of a round bundt cake.
I used buttercream frosting to glue it all together.  (I made a double batch of frosting).  The frosting recipe link is below.

I used buttercream frosting to “glue” my base together.
Once the base of my bunny rabbit is all frosted I pressed sweetened coconut flakes all over the rabbit.

I pressed coconut flakes into the frosted cake.
Then I used green food coloring to dye some coconut flakes green.  In a large ziploc bag add a few drops of green food coloring to your desired amount of “grass.”  For greener grass add more food coloring.  I sprinkled the green “grass” around my little guy.

The last step s to give my rabbit poster board ears and two pink jelly bean eyes.  All done!

Hello Peter Cottontail!