Make Easter Bunny Cake Pops That'll Hop Right Into Your Eye

easter bunny cake pop

Decorate these festive block pops for some bunny y'all honey this Easter. With the candy melt coating and simple 3D features, these pops are equally piece of cake to brand as they are adorable.

Bunny Cake Pops

Level: Piece of cake

What You Need

  • Baked block (use your favorite recipe)
  • Buttercream (Swiss Meringue and American buttercream work well)
  • White and pink fondant (purchase it or make your own)
  • White candy melts
  • Lollipop sticks
  • Crisco, oil or paramount crystals
  • Tiny heart plunger cutter
  • Fondant rolling pin
  • Black edible sugar pearls
  • Edible pink petal dust
  • Food-safety pigment castor
  • Wax newspaper
  • Cutting board or cookie canvas
  • Fondant modeling tools
  • Edible glue (optional)
  • Digital scale (optional)
  • Toothpick (optional)
  • Instructions

    1. Prep Your Cake Pop Dough

    Crumble your cake and mix it with buttercream to create cake pop dough.

    Pro Tip: For every ii cups of cake, use 1 tablespoon buttercream. Accommodate this ratio as needed.

    Examination the dough consistency by rolling a bit into a ball and pushing a cake pop stick into it. If the cake popular cracks, the mix is likewise dry — add a niggling more buttercream and test over again.

    Roll the dough into equal-sized egg shapes and exit on a apartment surface. If you want to brand sure they're all equally sized, counterbalance each ball on a digital scale.

    2. Cook the Candy and Insert the Sticks

    cake pops

    Melt a few (not all) white candy melts. Dip a lollipop stick into the melted processed melts and gently button it into the middle of a cake pop ball. Repeat for all block pop assurance, placing them onto a cookie sheet lined with wax newspaper. Place them in the fridge to chill until firm.

    Pro Tip: Don't melt all your candy melts quite all the same. The cake pops can take a few hours to arctic, and you don't want the melts to dry out in the meantime. Only melt plenty then you can add the lollipop sticks until you lot're set up to motility on.

    3. Dip

    dipped white cake pops

    Once the pops are business firm, melt the remainder of your candy melts. (We recommend using a full 12 oz bag to coat 20 pops.) When melted, add a small corporeality of Crisco, oil or paramount crystals to give the melts a smoother consistency.

    Gently dip each block pop into the melted processed melts. Don't swish them around, as this can cause the cake pop to fall off the stick. When coated, let the excess baste off and place the pops onto wax newspaper to harden.

    four. Shape the Ears

    fondant rabbit ears

    Curl white fondant into small assurance, then mold each into a long, tapered, teardrop-like shape. You'll need two per block popular.

    pink and white fondant ears

    Gyre out pink fondant and mold information technology the aforementioned way you did for the white ears (just use less fondant). Indent the center of the white ears with a modeling tool to make infinite for the pinkish fondant. Attach the pink to the white with a minor corporeality of excess candy melts or edible glue.

    white cake pop with bunny ears

    Use more candy melts or edible glue to secure the ears to the cake pop on either side of the lollipop stick.

    Pro Tip: Employ a toothpick to utilize the processed melt adhesive to these small-scale pieces.

    five. Make 'Em Cheeky

    cake pop bunny cheeks

    Roll ii small-scale balls of white fondant per cake pop. Attach them to the center to create the cheeks.

    bunny cake pop with heart nose

    Curl out some pink fondant and use the tiny heart plunger cutter to cut out 1 heart per popular. Add a dab of candy melts to the heart and secure higher up and in between the cheeks as the bunny'due south nose.

    half dozen. Add the Final Details

    bunny cake pop

    Secure ii blackness edible sugar pearl eyes with candy melts. Lightly brush the bunny's cheeks with pink edible petal dust.

    bunny easter cake pop

    And just like that, you've got the cutest cake pops hoppin' around this Easter!