Bunny Butt Cupcakes

These adorable Bunny Butt Cupcakes are the perfect Easter treat. Topped with fluffy frosting, coconut, and candy bunny feet, they’re easy to make, fun to decorate, and sure to bring smiles to your spring celebration.

Bunny Cupcakes

I love making fun Easter treats with my kids, and these adorable Bunny Butt Cupcakes always steal the show. They’re super soft, perfectly sweet, and decorated to look like little bunny butts wiggling fluffy cotton tails. They’re so much fun to make, even more fun to eat, and make the perfect treat for any spring get-together.

What I like most about this recipe is how easy it is to turn a simple boxed cake mix into the cutest dessert. Add a little coconut and some frosting, finish them off with candy feet, and you’re done. These cute little Easter bunny cupcakes will have everyone talking…and grabbing seconds!

If you love this recipe, you should also try my Bunny Butt Dip and my cute Bunny Butt Cookies.

Ingredients

• Boxed cake mix: Use your favorite flavor, carrot cake, vanilla, chocolate, or even funfetti.
• Eggs: Adds richness and structure to your cupcakes.
• Oil: Keeps the cupcakes moist.
• Water: Helps blend the batter into a smooth consistency.
• White frosting: Perfect for creating the bunny butt.
• Coconut flakes: For the fuzzy bunny “fur.”
• Mini marshmallows: Makes the perfect little bunny tails.
• White melting chocolates: White candy melts create the adorable bunny feet.
• 1 cup pink melting chocolates: The pink candy melts make those cute footpad details.

Recommended Tools

• Piping bag: Helps apply the frosting and chocolate details neatly.
• Parchment paper: Keeps your workspace clean when creating the bunny feet.
• Cupcake pan & cupcake liners: Essential for baking the cupcakes.
• Mixer: You can used a hand mixer or stand mixer to mix the batter.

How To Make Bunny Butt Cupcakes

Step 1. Mix cake mix, eggs, oil, and water in a large bowl until smooth.

Step 2. Line your cupcake pan with liners and fill each halfway with batter.

Step 3. Bake according to box instructions or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let them cool completely.

Step 4. Melt white chocolate in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds, until it’s completely melted and smooth. Pipe small ovals onto parchment for bunny feet. Freeze for 10 minutes to help them firm up.

Step 5. Melt pink chocolate, pipe it to create the pads of the feet on each chocolate oval, and let set.

Step 6. Frost each cupcake with white icing using a pastry bag fitted with a 1M tip.

Step 7. Place a mini marshmallow in the center of each cupcake and dip into coconut flakes to cover the frosting.

Step 8. Gently press the bunny feet to each cupcake with a bit of frosting, toes facing down. Serve and enjoy.

Storage Instructions

Store your leftover cupcakes in an airtight container in the fridge. They should stay good for up to 4 days.

If you want to freeze them, pop the finished cupcakes on a plate, uncovered, and place them into the freezer for an hour, or until the frosting has frozen solid. Once frozen, wrap them individually and freeze for up to 2 months.

Tips and Tricks

A little preparation goes a long way! These simple tips will help your cupcakes turn out perfect every time.

• Let your cupcakes cool completely before frosting so the frosting doesn’t melt.
• No piping bag? No problem! Just snip the corner off a zip-top bag and get to decorating.
• If your kitchen is warm, keep the bunny feet in the fridge until you’re ready to use them.
• If the coconut flakes are too long, chop them up in a food processor for a finer, more even texture.
• Want extra fluffy bunny tails? Roll the mini marshmallows in a bit of frosting, then coat them in coconut too.

Variations and Add-ins

Get creative with these fun variations to make your cupcakes stand out even more.

• Cupcake flavor: Swap the carrot cake for strawberry, chocolate or white cake mix.
• Different frosting flavors: You can use buttercream, strawberry or lemon frosting.
• Colored coconut: Tint your coconut flakes with food coloring for a fun, colorful twist.
• Candy decorations: Add mini candy eggs around the edges for a full Easter scene. You could even use green food coloring to create blades of grass around your bunny.
• Edible glitter: Sprinkle on some shimmer for extra festive sparkle.
• Gluten-free option: Use a gluten-free cake mix if needed.

FAQs

More Easter Sweet Treats

If you liked these Easter cupcakes, you’ll love these fun desserts too! Let the kids get in on the fun too…they’ll have a blast helping you decorate them!

• Nutter Butter Chicks
• Oreo Chicks
• Easter Egg Rice Krispie Treats
• Easter Egg Nests
• Easter Dirt Cups