Easter Bunny Cake - Photo Tutorial

It’s Easter the time of chocolate, rolling eggs down a hill, chocolate, family, chocolate and CAKE!! (well that’s my Easter at least). And we love all those things especial cake! So as well as this weeks course showing you how to make some super cute Easter cupcakes we thought as an extra gift to all our members (free members included) we would release this photo tutorial that was shot last year for a magazine but never publish in the UK. Enjoy!

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Covering and preparing the cake

Layer the cake with ganache
Cover with the pale green sugarpaste

Roll the white sugarpaste then cut out approx 15cm Oval from the centre then place over the top of the cake to cover the board

Trim the sugarpaste and smooth in to give a neat finish then apply ribbon to the side of the board using the non-toxic glue stick

Grass

Roll the green (grass) sugarpaste into a sausage cut into different sized small sections which you roll into a ball then taper one end. Using the quilting tool draw a line down the centre of the sugarpaste then cut the bottom off

Place the grass in groups around the cake with the tops falling forward slightly

Daffodil

Roll out the yellow (daffodil) sugarpaste and using your start cutter cut out the daffodil flower heads

Using the quilting tool drawn lines from the centre to the outside of each leaf and press a centre into the flower then place the flower heads around the grass attaching with sugar glue

Roll out the Orange sugarpaste and cut into little balls then push the Cone tool into the balls to form the trumpet part of the daffodil then insert into the daffodil flower sticking with sugar glue

Stone Effect

Roll out the Grey sugarpaste and cut into a sausage shape then cut into various small sizes then roll into balls

Place the balls around the bottom of the grass to give the stone garden effect

Trees

Using the remainder of your green sugarpaste roll into several large sausage shapes then taper at the end to give the Fir Tree effect.

Insert the spaghetti into the centre of the tree then create the branches cutting into the sugarpaste with scissors
Snap off the spaghetti leaving around 5cm to stick into the cake

Add some more grey stones at the bottom of the trees

Rabbit

Roll the Pink sugarpaste into a round cone shape to form the body then add a smaller white piece of sugarpaste for the rabbit’s chest

Place the cone shape into the cake securing with a piece of spaghetti

To make the feet roll approx. 40g of white sugarpaste then cut in half then roll into a cone shape then with your Dresden tool mark the shapes for the toes of the rabbit. Attach the feet to the body of the rabbit with sugar glue.

For the arms roll out approx. 20g of pink sugarpaste then cut into two then taper. Mark in the fingers using the Dresden tool and attach to the shoulders using sugar glue

Roll out a ball of white sugarpaste for the tail make it fluffy by cutting into the sugarpaste with scissors then attach to the back of the body

Roll out a ball of around 15g of pink sugarpaste for the head then roll out a small ball of white sugarpaste then attach to the pink head to create the muzzle

Roll out a small pair of white eyes with pink eyeballs. Using the edible pen create eyeballs

Using the back of your knife press down at the centre of the white muzzle to give the bunny rabbit look
Using your paint brush create a mouth

Add a piece of sugarpaste as the neck to the piece of spaghetti sticking out of the body and add a white sugar bow and attach to the neck then add the head on top

Roll out two small piece of pink sugarpaste then taper to form the ears then insert white sugarpaste into the middle to form the inner ear
Using sugar glue add to the head with maybe one ear flopping over