This adorable 3-D Easter Bunny Butt Carrot Cake was featured in Country Living FIVE YEARS in a row! It’s an eye-catching, fuzzy Easter centerpiece for your buffet table! It not only looks beautiful but, also is fun to make with kids. A step-by-step tutorial and from-scratch carrot cake recipe is also included.
Easter Bunny Butt Carrot Cake
Easter Bunny Cakes
What’s more fun than creating your own bakery-style Easter bunny cake to showcase to your guests on Easter Sunday? By making a bunny butt cake yourself, you won’t have to stand in a long line at the busy bakery the day before Easter to pick it up when you have a million things to do at home that day.
It’s so easy to make your own Easter bunny cake and much cheaper than buying one. I’ll show you step-by-step below.
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Easter Bunny Butt Carrot Cake
You can make this cake in any boxed flavor you like or use the from-scratch carrot cake recipe below in the recipe card. Using my Southern Hummingbird Cake recipe would also be delicious! It’s a dense, rich banana cake with crushed pineapple and toasted pecans with a buttery cream cheese frosting!
Can I Make This Cake Ahead?
The carrot cake can be made and frozen a couple of weeks ahead of time and then decorated a day or two before Easter. Freezing the cake will not diminish the flavor as carrot cake freezes well, even with the icing on it.
You are probably thinking, “I don’t know if I have time to make and decorate a cake, much less from scratch!”
If you make the cake from scratch and freeze it, which I highly recommend, it won’t take that much more time to make icing and decorate the cake with the tutorial below.
But, if you really don’t have time, just use a good boxed cake mix and icing.
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- One 2 qt or 1.9 ml Pyrex round glass bowl for the body
- Two 10 oz or 296 ml small oval glass bowls for the bunny feet
- One 6 oz or 175 ml small round glass bowl for the tail
- 12 oz or 340 ml sweetened, flaked coconut
- 1 watermelon-flavored Fruit Roll-Up
How to Make the Easter Bunny Butt Carrot Cake
*The full printable recipe is at the bottom of this post.
Here is the summary. Steps with photos are below.
- First, make the carrot cake. You can use the from-scratch carrot cake printable recipe below in the recipe card or make a boxed cake of any flavor you like. The toasted pecans give it a great flavor, so don’t skip this step. Let the cake cool before decorating.
- Next, make the cream cheese icing for this cake with powdered sugar, cream cheese and half-and-half cream (recipe is below.) You can use a store-bought white colored vanilla or cream cheese icing.
- Next, spread the icing on the cake liberally.
- Then, drop coconut flakes onto the cake to completely cover it. Your kids will love to help with that part.
- Next, cut oval and round pieces for the feet from a watermelon-flavored Fruit Roll Up and placed it on the bunny feet. Press into the feet so it adheres to the icing.
- Then, add the green grass and Easter eggs for decoration.
See the the tutorial below for more detailed steps and photos.
Carrot Cake mix before baking
Easter Bunny Butt Cake Cake Assembly and Decoration
1. When the cake is done cooling, remove the cakes from their bowls and cut the tops so that the tops are flat. You will be flipping them over as seen below.
2. Next, arrange smaller cake pieces as displayed in the pictures below.
cooled baked cake
3. Then, spread cream cheese icing evenly and liberally onto cake covering all the crevices. Try to put enough icing on the cake so that the dark color does not show through the icing, if possible.
cake with icing
4. Next, drop the flaked coconut liberally onto the cake. Push the coconut onto the sides to adhere the coconut to the cake. Have your kids do this fun part! Also, You may mix a little food dye in the coconut if you want a colored bunny. A pink bunny would be cute.
cake with icing and shredded, sweetened coconut on top
5. Then, add grass and Easter plastic Easter eggs or Easter candy as shown below.
6. Finally, cut a watermelon-flavored Fruit Roll Up into two oval 1 1/2″x 1″ or so pieces and six 1/2″ or so round pieces and attach them to the feet as shown in picture below with chocolate eggs.
Your adorable Easter Bunny Butt Cake is finished!
Substitutions
- Use any cake flavor you like. I suggest carrot cake, banana cake but, any flavor will do.
- You can use pink Peanut M&Ms for the foot imprints. To make the bigger imprint add the Peanut M&M vertically and the three smaller imprints horizontally.
In six easy steps, you can decorate your own Easter Bunny Butt Cake! You’ll be proud to display this cute centerpiece for your Easter table. Your guests will love to see and eat it!
Happy Easter!
Easter Bunny Butt Carrot Cake
Here’s the link to Country Living: Adorable Easter Bunny Cakes That Will Steal the Show at Brunch
More Fun Easter Recipes:
Italian Easter Bread Pane di Pasqua is a soft, slightly sweet, anise-flavored bread with icing!
Italian Anise Cookies are soft, dense cookies that are irresistible.
Robin’s Egg Cupcakes are cute and super easy to make. See the video on how to make the speckled eggs.
Bunny Poop Cupcakes
These Bunny Poop Cupcakes will impress any child and amuse nearly any adult!
Easter Bunny Butt Carrot Cake
Ingredients
Cake Mixture:
- 2 1/2 cups of flour 312 gr
- 1/2 cup of white sugar 100 gr
- 1 1/2 cups of brown sugar 300 gr
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp of vanilla extract
- 1 cup of canola corn or vegetable oil (240 ml)
- 4 eggs
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- 2 1/2 cups of grated carrots use a food processor
- 3 oz of applesauce
- 8 oz of crushed mandarin oranges 14.5 oz can drained and crushed
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp ground cloves
- 1 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp of salt
Icing:
- 16 oz. of Philadelphia Cream Cheese softened
- 4 cups of powdered sugar
- 2 tbs of half-n-half creamer
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Cake Decorations:
- 12 oz of sweetened flaked coconut
- 1 watermelon Fruit Rollup to make feet prints
- green Easter grass
- Easter candy or plastic Easter eggs
Instructions
Cake Mixture:
- First, preheat oven to 300
- Next, spread chopped pecans evenly on a baking sheet and put in 300F degree oven for 5 minutes to toast them.
- Then, after removal of pecans, put oven temperature up to 350F.
- Next, in a mixing bowl, add flour, baking soda, baking powder, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt.
- Then, in another mixing bowl, add white sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, eggs, oil, mandarin oranges and apple sauce. Mix until the brown sugar lumps are gone. Begin to add flour mixture a little at a time until well combined.
- Stir in carrots and toasted pecans by hand.
- Next, spray insides of baking dishes with cooking spray and fill 2/3 full with carrot cake mixture. Bake small baking dishes for approximately 20-25 min on 350F and the larger round baking dish for about 45-50 minutes. Insert a toothpick or knife in the middle of the cakes to see if they come out clean. Let cool to the touch before applying icing.
Icing:
- Mix the softened cream cheese, vanilla extract and half-n-half creamer together with powdered sugar, adding powdered sugar a little at time. Mix until smooth. Add a tiny bit more creamer if needed to get desired consistency.
Cake Assembly and Decoration:
- When the cake is done cooling, remove the cakes from their bowls and cut the tops so that the tops are flat. You will be flipping them over as seen below.
- Next, arrange smaller cake pieces as displayed in the pictures below.
- Then, spread cream cheese icing evenly and liberally onto cake covering all the crevices. Try to put enough icing on the cake so that the dark color does not show through the icing, if possible.
- Next, drop the flaked coconut liberally onto the cake. Push the coconut onto the sides to adhere the coconut to the cake. Have your kids do this fun part! You may also mix a little food dye in the coconut if you want a colored bunny. If you or your guests are not a fan of coconut, you can omit this step but, be sure to spread the icing in even strokes.
- Then, add green Easter grass to the sides along with eggs or add Easter candy onto grass.
- Next cut a watermelon-flavored Fruit Roll-Up into two oval 1 1/2"x 1" or so pieces and six 1/2 " or so round pieces and attach them to the feet as shown in picture below with chocolate eggs.
- Also, see freezing and thawing instructions in the Notes section.
Notes
Nutrition
The recipe was adapted from Sally’s Baking Addiction with several changes, one of which is adding crushed Mandarin oranges.
Thanks Amy.
This cake is the cutest! Love it!
Hi Kathi!
You could use a liberal coat of whipped (fluffy) icing if you really want a white bunny. If you put a lot of icing on the cake and pull the icing from the cake so that it forms little pointy peaks, I think you could get a similar fluffy bunny look. Also, you could use chopped pecans for a brown bunny. I’m sorry but, that’s all I can think of even after doing research. If you come up with a better alternative for shredded coconut, please let me know. I’ll post another comment here if I find another substitute not listed here. Thanks for your comment and happy Easter!
It is adorable and I will be making it. Just one question – can you use something in place of coconut? I am allergic to coconut and also hate it. Thanks.
Only did 4 starts because of the coconut.
Thanks! Happy Easter!
Thanks Petra. I’m glad you like it. Happy Easter.
Thanks Mary. I sure will link up tomorrow. Happy Easter!
Hi Joanne,
Thank you so much for sharing your adorable Easter Bunny Butt Cake with all of us at Weekend Potluck! Too Cute! We hope to see you again tomorrow, sharing more of your wonderful recipes.
Have a happy Easter!
This is the funniest and cutest Easter cake I have ever seen, I just love it. It sounds great, carrot cake is always a favorite! Happy Fiesta Friday 🙂
What a beautiful and fun creation!
Thanks Lynn.
That’s so cute! I love it.
Thanks Katherine!
Lol, this is so cute!
Thanks! I like it a lot too!
This cake is adorable! So much cuter than the bunny head/face cakes that I usually see, and I love how easy it is to put together.
Thanks Farrah! I love that it looks like a stuffed animal. It is so furry looking with the coconut.
Thanks. It is a cute cake for Easter.
This was super easy to assemble and decorate. I like making my cakes from scratch but, occasionally will use a box mix. I plan to party it up at FF.
ILOVE this! Every year I think I’ll make a Bunny Butt cake but I’ve never gotten around to it! I love that you’ve given such great directions!
Thanks for sharing this on FF, Joanne!
Looks lovely
Thanks. This centerpiece would be equally liked by adults and kids.
Such a cute and fun idea! I can see this as a centrepiece of a family Easter party
hahaha, this is the cutest cake ever!!!
Thanks Jess. It really is easy, especially if you are using a box cake but, this carrot cake recipe is really good, if you have the time to make it.
Thanks Annie. This is one of those cakes that you don’t want to cut but, you do because you HAVE to eat it!
Thanks Jessica. I’ve added freezing and thawing instructions to the post but, here they are too for your convenience.
Remove cakes from baking pans. Cut tops so they are flat. Wrap cakes in plastic wrap completely with three layers of plastic wrap.
Put smaller cakes in one gallon size freezer bags and the larger cake in another freezer bag,
pressing out the air before closing. Freeze up to 4 weeks. Thaw in plastic on counter for about 2 hours before icing decorating.
You can freeze the cakes with icing but, remove plastic wrap immediately when removing from freezer. Add coconut after thawed as it will get mashed in freezer.
Thanks Abbey! It looks like stuffed animal!
Ha! Your title made me laugh! So cute! Freeze the cake? Any special thawing instructions?
This is way too cute! Pinning to my Easter board!
Oh my gosh – this is fantastic. Lol, love this idea!! Cheers!
Thanks! It really isn’t hard at all. Give it a try!
How adorable! I’ve always wanted to try out an Easter Bunny Cake like this. You make it look so easy. Thank you for sharing 🙂