Bunny Butt Cone-cakes

Featuring cute pink and teal bunny tails, these Bunny Butt Cone-cakes are a fun and trendy way to celebrate Easter, a baby shower or any other spring holiday. Use the Baking Cone Rack to bake your cake batter inside the sugar cones, then use various shades of Candy Melts candy and Color Mist Food Color Sprays to decorate your treats. A fun project for decorators of all skill levels, these Bunny Butt Cone-cakes are sure to hop their way into your heart!

Skill LevelIntermediate

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

Bunny Feet Pattern

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Bake cones. Prepare cake batter following recipe instructions. Using cone rack, bake and cool cupcakes in cake cones according to package instructions.
Make bunny feet. Place bunny feet pattern under parchment paper-covered board.
Melt Bright White Candy Melts candy according to package instructions. Prepare decorating bag with melted white candy; cut ¼ in. tip in bag. Following pattern, pipe feet (2 per treat). Chill until set, about 10 to 15 minutes. Reserve remaining melted white candy.
Decorate cones. Using Pink and Yellow Color Mist food color sprays, spray cones.
Thin remaining melted white candy and Turquoise and Pink candy with EZ Thin. Dip cones into melted white, pink or turquoise candy. Dip bottom third on some, dip some on angle or cover completely. Chill until set, about 10 to 15 minutes.
Using Gold metallic cake paint, paint bottom of some cones gold.
Tint icing. Prepare buttercream icing following recipe instructions.
Using Rose icing color, tint 1/3 cup icing light pink. Using Teal icing color, tint 1/3 cup icing light teal. Using Leaf Green icing color, tint 1/3 cup icing dark green. Reserve remaining icing white.
Decorate treats. Prepare decorating bag with tip 1A and reserved white icing. Pipe mound on each cupcake.
Prepare two decorating bags with couplers and tip 4. Fill separately with light teal and light pink icing. Using both bags, pipe pads on bunny feet.
Switch both bags to tip 8. Pipe tails.
Prepare decorating bag with tip 4 and dark green icing. Pipe grass around edge of treat.
Using remaining white buttercream, attach feet to treat.