Peeker Cottontails Cake

Source: 2006 Yearbook

Tools:

12 x 2 in. Round Pan
Nesting Bunny Cookie Cutter Set
Tip: 1
Tip: 2
Tip: 3
Tip: 5
Tip: 18
Tip: 47
Tip: 233
Cooling Grid
Rolling Pin
Cookie Sheet
Cake Circles
Fanci-Foil Wrap
Toothpick

Ingredients:

Royal Blue Icing Color
Kelly Green Icing Color
Rose Icing Color
Brown Icing Color
Red-Red Icing Color
2 pkgs. Petite Eggs Icing Decorations
Buttercream icing
Roll-Out Cookie Dough
cornstarch

Makes: Cake serves 20; each cookie serves 1.

Techniques Used:

Rope
Basketweave
Bead
Grass
Outline

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instructions

Combine Brown and Red-Red for brown shown. Roll out cookie dough. Cut 1 bunny using 2nd largest cutter and 2 bunnies using 2nd smallest cutter; bake and cool. Ice cookies smooth in buttercream. Outline and pipe in inner ears and noses with tip 3 and mouth and eyes with tip 2 (smooth all with finger dipped in cornstarch). Pipe tip 1 string whiskers.

Ice 1-layer cake smooth. Mark cake top, 4 1/2 in. from bottom edge with toothpick. Cover area with tip 47 (ridged side up) basketweave. Pipe tip 18 rope top border for handle. Add tip 233 pull-out grass on top edge of basket. Attach bunny cookies to cake with dots of buttercream; pipe tip 5 bead paws. Add tip 233 pull-out grass bottom border and position icing decorations.