Round Pans
Peeker Cottontails Cake
Our curious cottontails just have to see what’s inside the Easter basket! It’s an adorable cake design featuring the popular basketweave technique and finished with colorful Petite Eggs Icing Decorations.
Ingredients:
- Easy-Add Royal Blue Icing Color Add to shopping list Royal Blue Icing Color
- Easy-Add Kelly Green Icing Color Add to shopping list Kelly Green Icing Color
- Easy-Add Rose Icing Color Add to shopping list Rose Icing Color
- Easy-Add Brown Icing Color Add to shopping list Brown Icing Color
- Easy-Add Red-Red Icing Color Add to shopping list Red-Red Icing Color
- Easy-Add Petite Eggs Icing Decorations Add to shopping list Petite Eggs Icing Decorations
- cornstarch
Makes:
Cake serves 20; each cookie serves 1.
Techniques Used:
Tools:
- Easy-Add 12 x 2 in. Round Pan Add to shopping list 12 x 2 in. Round Pan
- Easy-Add Nesting Bunny Cookie Cutter Set Add to shopping list Nesting Bunny Cookie Cutter Set
- Easy-Add Tip: 1 Add to shopping list Tip: 1
- Easy-Add Tip: 2 Add to shopping list Tip: 2
- Easy-Add Tip: 3 Add to shopping list Tip: 3
- Easy-Add Tip: 5 Add to shopping list Tip: 5
- Easy-Add Tip: 18 Add to shopping list Tip: 18
- Easy-Add Tip: 47 Add to shopping list Tip: 47
- Easy-Add Tip: 233 Add to shopping list Tip: 233
- Easy-Add Cooling Grid Add to shopping list Cooling Grid
- Easy-Add Rolling Pin Add to shopping list Rolling Pin
- Easy-Add Cookie Sheet Add to shopping list Cookie Sheet
- Easy-Add Cake Circles Add to shopping list Cake Circles
- Easy-Add Fanci-Foil Wrap Add to shopping list Fanci-Foil Wrap
- Toothpick
Instructions:
Step 1
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.
Step 2
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.
