Easter Bunny Cupcakes

Make your Easter extra-special with these adorable Easter Bunny Cupcakes. Learn how to make an easy bunny face out of frosting, sprinkles, and marshmallows, and customize them by using your favorite cupcake and frosting flavors.

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🐰 Easy Easter Bunny Cupcakes

These bunny ear cupcakes are my favorite kind of holiday dessert: eye-catching, festive, fun to make with kids, and –of course– completely delicious!

There are a million different ways to make Easter bunny cupcakes, and this is my personal spin on the concept. We’ve got a big mound of creamy buttercream for the head, pink & white marshmallow ears, and the sweetest bunny face with just a nose and delicate buttercream eyes. What could be better?

🧾 What You’ll Need

Ingredients

You won’t need much in the way of specialty ingredients or equipment to make these cute Easter cupcakes –just a few pantry and decorating basics. (Links are affiliate links and I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases.)

• Cake mix: Because these cupcakes are all about the decorating, I recommend keeping it simple and using a yellow or white cake mix. I like the way the bunnies look on light-colored cupcakes, but feel free to use lemon, strawberry, or chocolate cupcakes if that’s what you prefer.
• Frosting: We’re using a simple homemade buttercream frosting for the bunny heads. If you’re looking for a shortcut, I do not recommend using store-bought canned frosting (ie, the frosting sold in plastic cans near the cake mixes.) It is too soft for this decorating technique. If your grocery store sells American buttercream-style frosting in the bakery section, that should work just fine.
• Marshmallows: Our bunny ears are made from large marshmallows.
• Sprinkles: We’re using white sparkling sugar sprinkles for the bunny head, and and pink jimmies or pink sparkling sugar for the ears.
• Pink gel food coloring: Just a touch of pink color to make the bunny eyes! For this recipe, I used Americolor Pink Gel Food Coloring.

Equipment

• Piping bags and tips: I like these disposable piping bags (I wash them and re-use them to reduce waste!). I used a piping coupler to make the bunny head and a small round #2 tip to make the eyes.
• Shears: Kitchen shears or scissors are used to cut the marshmallows.
• Toothpicks: I recommend using long wooden toothpicks – their extra-long length keeps the ears more securely attached to the cupcakes.

📸 Photo Tutorial: How to Make Easter Bunny Cupcakes

Here’s how easy it is to turn regular cupcakes into cute bunny cupcakes. Full instructions are included in the recipe card above.

Make the Marshmallow Bunny Ears

• Use kitchen shears to snip large marshmallows into 3 pieces lengthwise. Pinch the ends of the marshmallow pieces to accentuate the bunny ears shape.
• Press the cut side of a marshmallow piece into a bowl of pink jimmies or sparkling sugar. Since the side is fairly sticky, the sprinkles should adhere well, and you can also press them in with your fingers to help them stick. 
• Once all of the marshmallows have pink sprinkles, push a long toothpick partially into the bottom of each “ear.”

Add frosting for the head

• Pipe a large blob of vanilla frosting on top of each cupcake. Stop when it almost reaches the sides of the cupcake.
• Dip the top of the cupcake into a bowl of white sparkling sugar, turning it so all of the frosting is covered.
• If you need to, you can use your hands to gently reshape the frosting so it’s smooth and round.

Add ears and bunny faces

• Press two marshmallow ears into the top of the cupcake, making sure that they go through the frosting all the way down to the cupcake.  
• Add a round pink sprinkle or Sixlet to the center of the frosting for the bunny’s nose.
• Finally, pipe two eyes on each cupcake with pink buttercream.

💭 Variations

More fun ideas for customizing these sweet bunny cupcakes:

• Mix ‘n’ match the cake, marshmallow, sparkling sugar and buttercream flavors/colors. Imagine strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream, lemon cake with coconut buttercream, chocolate cake with chocolate sour cream frosting . . . you get the idea!
• Make a pastel rainbow of bunny ears and faces. This multi-colored sparkling sugar comes with pink, purple, yellow and green. Mix up colored buttercream to match the sprinkles and you’ll be all set.
• Add different textures to the bunny face by using flaked coconut, grated white chocolate, crushed graham crackers, or even nuts. You could also leave off the texture altogether and make the bunny face completely smooth.
• Use fun cupcake wrappers. You could do a variety of pastel colors, pink to match the bunny ears or some fun Easter wrappers.
• Place a surprise inside the cupcake like jam, jelly beans or a truffle. 
• If you don’t want to bother with piping the eyes and eyelashes, use additional sprinkles or candy eyes instead of pink buttercream.
• Give your bunnies some personality like piped hairbows, bowties, extra eyelashes, etc.