- Today, we're gonna make these super cute,
ultra simple and delicious bunny butt cupcakes
perfect for Easter or any spring gathering and,
if you've watched any of my videos,
you know that I do not like fondant but,
this is the exception.
I'm using fondant today people, let's get started.
So we're starting off with the fondant part.
Start off by dying a little bit pink.
To do that, just adding a few drops of pink food coloring
and then fold, twist, fold, twist, roll it out.
If you have one of these tools, it's really nice.
It's just a little rolling wand
with like training wheels made of rubber bands on it.
So, we're gonna out these paws here.
This is the paw little soft part of it.
And then I'm using a piping tip.
This is gonna be a number 12, which is like a medium circle.
Just take a dot out, set it aside.
Another dot, set it aside.
Only two paws to start off with.
Then for the little, you know, paw fingers,
I'm using a number eight tip,
you can even use a smaller one.
Just pop it out.
Use your handy kitchen skewer if it sticks.
We're doing the fondant part first because,
it kinda needs to harden a bit.
And each bunny I think would get like three or four.
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Now for the paws themselves,
a little bit more white fondant this time.
We're gonna roll it out
and I'm using my thicker rubber bands to roll it out,
you'll see why in a moment.
And now just use the back of your piping tip
and press that out again with your skewer, so handy.
You can even wait for this to firm up a bit
before you cut it, it'll make it a little bit less soft
and it'll be more easy to handle.
Now, this needs to be a little bit elongated,
just like a bunny's back paws.
So, let's take our rolling pin,
roll it out in one direction just to stretch it out.
Now we have a longer bunny paw.
You can even use your fingers if you want, that works too.
Now let's press on the big circle,
and you can make it a little bit larger
by pressing down with your finger.
Okay, now for the little baby pads,
just press them on.
If your little paws aren't sticking,
you can just brush the place you're gonna put them on
with the smallest, little, tiny amount of water
and then place them on and they'll stick
fine and dandy like lemon candy.
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That looks like a bunny paw to me,
what do you think?
This needs to firm up a bit,
so that's why we're doing it first.
Just wanted to show you, I think it's pretty cute.
So for the body, you need to have some kind
of a semi-spherical shaped object.
I have these cups and the inside is nice and round.
You could also use this little tiny bowls, whatever,
you can even shape them by hand.
I'm going to be dusting in just a little bit
of powdered sugar, kick it around.
This is an act like a little barrier,
so nothing sticks on the inside.
Now get a dollop of fondant here.
This is about a little bit under a tablespoon,
and you're gonna press it into your glass,
it's not sticking at all, thanks to that powdered sugar.
And now we have like a nice domed little bunny body.
You can place it on your cupcake here and see.
You wanna have some space around for the grass.
Set that aside and repeat the process
for our however many buddies you have.
PS, the resistance of my bunny butt cupcake
will be it's fluffy, sparkly tail,
which will be achieved with the use of white sanding sugar.
Just pour some into a bowl.
Now more fondant.
Here we need like little tail,
doesn't have to be at all like smooth.
Put on a toothpick, dip it in that water,
a little water bath.
And then we're going to roll it in that sanding sugar
and we have a nice, sparkly, fluffy tail.
Look at that, so cute, catches the light like a diamond.
To put it onto your buddy butt,
you will be just dabbing it with water,
fix it and it'll act like glue.
I suggest letting this hardened a bit
so you don't pull all of the sanding sugar off first.
Just chill out, you could put it on some styrofoam
or a piece of cardboard just to stay upright
or just lay it down and it'll be okay, gently.
Let's make a couple more.
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Look at that beautiful sparkly tail.
Okay.
So now, we're ready to assemble our bunny butts.
Alright, so to assemble, use a little bit of water for glue.
Just brush where you wanna put the feet.
Now let's add our slightly firmer bunny feet.
It's really a cartoon, so don't worry about
where the feet would be placed in nature.
There we go.
And the finishing touch will be a big ol fluffy bunny butt.
Nice, it'll set, all be glued together
and while that's happening, we can make our cupcakes.
We're gonna use 113 grams
or 1 2/3 cups of all purpose flour,
I measured it on the scale.
One teaspoon of baking powder
and a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda.
1/4 teaspoon of salt.
One whole cup of granulated sugar,
you could cut back a little bit, do 2/3 if you want.
Give it a nice, beautiful sift.
Cast it aside, like your dreams,
and now let's give it a nice whisk.
Okay, let's set that aside and now onto the wet ingredients.
In the smaller bowl, I have one 1/2 of a cup of sour cream,
one of my favorites.
1/2 a cup of milk,
whole, whole milk.
One tablespoon of vanilla extract.
3/4 of a cup or 190 grams of unsalted butter
at hot temperature, melted down,
both make everything easier.
That white stuff at the bottom are milk solids
because I'm using American butter, which is not clarified.
Let's whisk this up
and we're almost done, except for those pesky little eggs.
Three egg whites at room temperature.
Just the whites, no yolks.
Whisk it up.
Right, add a little caprese
and then add some lemon zest into here.
Let's just dump all that mixture out
and then we're going to whisk it up,
this could be done with electric hand beaters
or a standing mixer but, why waste the electricity.
It also comes together so quickly.
Into cupcake papers, popping them into the oven
and then we're gonna get to our buttercream.
So, I'm gonna pop these papers
and they're like acute yellow gingham,
but it doesn't matter 'cause you're never
gonna see them and I'll tell you why,
we use a little blogger trick on this later.
Get in there.
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Now I'm using ice cream scoop as usual.
This gives me the perfect amount.
So, scoop it up put up and plop it in.
Next cupcake.
Very satisfying process.
I like this because even someone who's clumsy,
maybe a little bit less than unmessy,
can get these in without too much mess
and you get the exact same amount of butter
for each cupcake.
This recipe yields about 18 cupcakes
depending on like the size of your papers.
I have some papers, like a little tiny baby papers
and some that are giant
even they all fit into the same size muffin tin.
So frustrating.
Anyways, these will bake at 340, 350, keep an eye on them,
turn the pan around halfway through
because the back of your oven is usually warmer
and you'll be fine.
While those cupcakes are baking,
we're gonna do some quick buttercream action here.
I'm making up a nice delicious batch
of American vanilla butter cream.
So four sticks or one pound, that's .45 kilograms, I think,
of butter into a standing mixer,
fitted with a paddle attachment.
It is unsalted butter, to which I'm adding
a 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
Plus it give this an ice cream,
just for a few minutes, just like few seconds.
(mixer running)
It's creamed up.
Now we're gonna add in about
a pound and a half of confectioner sugar,
it's pretty much up to you because,
it's about the consistency and the taste.
Let's add that sugar in.
Just add in, you know, a big clump at a time
and then mix it on low.
Close it up and because,
I have learned from previous experience,
I am gonna be adding a tea towel on here.
Mix on low,
increased speed,
keep that tea towel on.
(mixer running)
No fuss, no muss.
Nobody saw any of this other mess.
Repeat the process.
(mixer running)
Okay.
I'm gonna add a splash of vanilla
and a little bit more salt.
(mixer running)
Add some green food coloring onto that buttercream,
get it nice and vibrant green.
If you want, you could also use matcha powder
to get a nice pastel green with no food coloring.
I'm using a palette knife,
but you could use anything you want,
just to smear a thin base of buttercream onto my cupcake.
Now I'm using a 233 grass tip to pipe grass on.
They make big ones of this too,
but 233 is the one that's really easy to get.
Once you have your border of grass piped,
like two rows deep for the most part,
you can add your bunny in.
So, just be careful because if your bunny stains,
things will be bad.
If your bunny's tail falls off, things will also be bad.
Add just some grass in there to elevate the bunny a bit.
So place your bunny press down a bit now.
And the last bit, is to pipe in just a little bit of grass.
Okay, there you have it, a bunny butt cupcake.
Very nice.
Okay, I've said it before and I'll say it again,
that is a very nice vanilla cupcake recipe,
if I do say so myself.
So delicious, really moist.
You just get butter and vanilla
and happy feelings from eating them.
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