For our family, it wouldn’t be Easter dinner if there weren’t a bunny cake. Long after kids aren’t really kids any more, they aren’t willing to dispense with this cake, in all its ’50’s style glory.
It starts as two round cakes (8 or 9 inches in diameter). Make a carrot cake (traditional) or use a mix – any flavour will do.
One cake is cut into sections, with two ears, leaving the centre of the circle to make the bow tie.
The whole thing is iced with Italian Meringue Frosting, tinted appropriately. Each year there’s an argument about whether the bow tie should be pink, or mauve, or green, or yellow. Mauve or pink are easiest, since the pink frosting for the ears can be prepared, and then a little blue food colouring added as necessary.
The candies are Smarties(TM) but other small round candies such as M&Ms (TM) would work as well. The whiskers are made of shoelace-style red licorice. The fur is coconut, preferably the long-shredded variety.