Blooming Bunny Ear Cupcakes

Topped with simple piped flowers and candy bunny ears, these Easter cupcakes are a spring floral fantasy! You can add dimension and texture to your piped flowers by striping your decorating bags with colored frosting so your roses are literally blooming with color. Spring cupcakes are perfect for Easter, baby showers, wedding showers or even birthdays, and these bunny cupcakes are deceivingly easy to make.

Prep1 hr 30 min
Total Time4 hr 30 min
Skill LevelBeginner

Amount12

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

Download Bunny Ear Pattern

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Bake cupcakes. Bake cupcakes in white cupcake liners and cool completely.
Make bunny ears. Download and print the Bunny Ears Pattern. Position pattern on cake board and tape down to secure. Cover pattern with wax paper.
Melt Candy Melts candy according to package instructions. Prepare a parchment bag with melted candy; cut a small tip. Pipe ears on wax paper. Chill until set, about 10 to 15 minutes.
Tint frosting. Prepare frosting following recipe instructions. Tint icing using the following color combinations provided.
- Tint 1 cup frosting purple by combining Violet, Pink and Black food coloring
- Tint 1 cup frosting blue by combining Royal Blue and Black food coloring
- Tint 1 cup frosting green by combining Leaf Green, Brown, Golden Yellow and Black food coloring
- Reserve remaining 1 cup frosting white
Prepare decorating bags.
- Prepare a decorating bag with tip 103 and stripe with purple and white frosting
- Prepare a decorating bag with tip 103 and stripe with blue and white frosting
- Prepare a decorating bag with tip 2D and stripe with blue and white frosting
- Prepare a decorating bag with tip 2D and stripe with purple and white frosting
- Prepare a decorating bag with tip 352 and fill with green frosting
Decorate cupcakes. Using decorating bags with tip 103, alternate piping purple and blue sweet peas around the outside edge of each cupcake (about five sweet peas per cupcake).
Using a flower nail and decorating bags with tip 103, pipe purple or blue 5-petal roses and place one in the center of each cupcake.
Alternate piping purple and blue 3-petal roses. Position on cupcakes to form a circle around the center rose.
Using decorating bags with tip 2D, alternate piping purple and blue drop flowers around rose and in between sweet peas.
Using a decorating bag with tip 352, pipe leaves.
Using angled spatula, gently remove ears from wax paper and insert into top of the cupcakes.