Cute Bunny Cupcakes

This recipe yields cute bunny cupcakes decorated with fluffy white coconut and 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

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners.

Step 2

Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda together 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 cups, filling each ⅔ full.

Step 3

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

Step 4

Frost cupcakes with 1 frosting container; sprinkle tops with coconut.

Step 5

Place ½ remaining frosting package in a bowl; tint with red food coloring until pink. Set aside remaining ½ package white frosting for decorating.

Step 6

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