Cute Bunny Cupcakes

Cute Easter bunny cupcakes are decorated with fluffy white coconut and sport pink graham cracker ears, chocolate chip eyes, and pink frosting noses.

• Preparation Time: 60 mins
• Cooking Time: 30 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins
• Calories: 998 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 4 egg whites
• 1 drop red food coloring, or as needed
• 2 (16 ounce) packages vanilla frosting, divided
• sweetened flake coconut, or as needed
• 12 whole graham cracker squares (4 cookies each)
• 48 miniature semisweet chocolate chips
• 0.5 teaspoon baking soda
• 2.5 cups all-purpose flour
• 0.125 teaspoon salt
• 0.5 cup vegetable shortening
• 1.3333333730698 cups buttermilk

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Bake in the preheated oven until cupcakes are lightly browned, about 30 minutes. Let cool.

Step 2

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 24 cupcake cups with paper liners.

Step 3

Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda in a large bowl until well combined. Beat in buttermilk, vegetable shortening, vanilla, and salt until thoroughly combined. Beat in egg whites until incorporated. Pour batter into the prepared cupcake cups, filling them 2/3 full.

Step 4

Divide 1 frosting container in half; tint half with red food coloring to make pink color and set aside remaining half. Use remaining frosting container to frost cooled cupcakes and sprinkle the tops with coconut.

Step 5

Break graham crackers into individual cookies and cut each cookie carefully into a leaf shape pointed at both ends to make 48 ears. Cover each ear with reserved white frosting and frost the inside of each ear shape with pink frosting. Stick 2 ears into each cupcake. Push 2 mini chocolate chips into the tops of cupcakes below the ears to make eyes; add a dot of pink frosting to each for a nose.