How to Make a Bunny Cake

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This Easter we ate our holiday meal at a friend's house.  She made the made the ham, my daughter made the extra cheesy au gratin potatoes, our boys made the deviled eggs, and I made the Easter Bunny cake   A bunny cake is not that hard to make, and might become a yearly tradition in our house from now on.   

To make an Easter Bunny cake, bake your favorite cake recipe or box mix  in two  8 inch or 9 inch pans,  I believe I used 9 inch pans so my bunny will be slightly longer and thinner than if you use 8 inch. 

Once the cake has cooled, cut it in half down the middle 

Add a little bit of frosting between the two halves and place them on their side like in the picture.  This will become the body of the bunny.  Cover the body with lots of frosting. My edges were a little uneven, so they got a little more frosting to even the edge out. 

The next step was to figure out  what size to make the bunny head. so I got out some of my cookie cutters. I was trying to decide between my Wilton 4 piece circle cutter set and my Wilton bunny head set. Either shape would work out well, but I decided to go with the circle head  because we were running late on time, and I thought it might be easier to frost.  

I used the 3 inch cutter , but it is your preference on how big or little you would like to make the bunny head.  

Using the cookie cutter, cut the head piece out of the second cake. Since you will not need the remainder  of the 2nd cake, you can then  crumble up the rest make Cake Pops, or cut out small bunny feet. I decided not to have feet on my cake

Frost the bunny head, and attach it to the body piece with some frosting.  I had my daughter help me choose what candy to use for the face, She went for a simple look with just jelly beans.  

The bunnies ears are made out of pink and white cardstock attached to toothpicks. 

We had to travel about 20 miles with our bunny on a cake plate.  She did get bumped a little bit so she looks crooked in this picture, but I wanted to show her tail.  I used a pink egg shaped marshmallow for a quick and easy tail. I thought the pink tail looked cute with her pink nose.  If you prefer you could use a small circle cutter and use cake, a cake ball, or Sno Ball Snack Cakes  for the tail instead.   You might have also noticed that our bunny cake does not have coconut on it. My kids and I do not like coconut at all, so I did not add any.  If you do like it, you can cover the frosting with a coating of coconut to give it a different look, We swirled the frosting a bit, to give it some texture  

The cake is now ready to eat and enjoy!   

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Cherry Chocolate Cake

Recently my daughter saw a recipe for making Cherry Chocolate cake using one of her favorite sodas.   While that recipe looked really good, there were a lot of extra ingredients needed to make the cake. We decided to try to make our own version with only a few ingredients.  We were very happy with the results.  

We used: 

a box of Devil's Food mix 

eggs

vegetable oil 

water,  

Black Cherry Faygo

Chocolate Chips

a jar of Black Cherry topping 

We followed the directions on the back of the cake mix.  The amount of eggs, oil and watedr you use will vary depending on the brand you use.  For our brand we used 3 eggs. 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 1 1/3 cups water.  After mixing well we added in 1/2 cup of the Black Cherry Faygo, and 2/3 cup chocolate chips. (we would have added a cup, but we only had 2/3 cup, which still worked out well.   We then baked the cake according to the box, which for our brand was about 30 minutes at 400 degrees. 

We used 9" pans and sprayed them with nonstick cooking spray.  We realized after we baked the cakes that we should have floured them too. We did have some issues with sticking.  Once the cakes had cooled,  we used some of the Black Cherry filling between the two layers. We then covered the top layer with the rest of the jar. 

We loved the results!   The cake was the perfect mix of cherry and chocolate. 

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Dauntless Chocolate Cherry Cake - Feature of the Day

Unless you don't have a TV or never turn it on, you may have heard by now that a little movie called Divergent is opening this weekend..  Okay.. It is not going to be a just a little movie, they are predicting it to be as big as Twilight or Harry Potter.   Kim from Kims Kandy Kreations has been sharing many great Divergent party ideas over on her blog the last few weeks.  Her recent post for Dauntless Chocolate Cherry Truffle Cake sounds amazing even if you don't plan on seeing the movie.  Be sure to stop over to check out the recipe for this delicious cake, and all of her great party ideas.  Thanks so much for linking up to Dare to Share Kim! 

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Chocolate Syrup Fudge Cake - Feature of the Day

After the last 24 hours I have had, I could definitely use some chocolate.   You may have read on my Facebook Page that my daughter had one of her mice jump out of her hands last night. (not Lucky the baby)  Frappe (a.k.a. mama mouse) has been on the loose since late yesterday afternoon.  We almost  caught her several times, but she would slip away at the last second.  We set up a live trap last night before bed, and hoped we would see her this morning.  No such luck.  Kara thought she saw her earlier today, but we have seen seen her since.   We are still on the search though, especially since we have three cats! 

Now back to that chocolate.   I don't know about you, but when I am stressed,  a bit of chocolate hits the spot.  I think this Chocolate Syrup Fudge Cake from The Velvet Moon Baker amazing, and wish I had a bit piece of it right now. You can see how Tash made this yummy looking cake on The Velvet Moon Baker blog here.  Thanks so much for linking up to Dare to Share Tash! 

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