Creme Egg Easter Bunny

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After the success of my Creme Egg Chick post, I took another fun look at creating edible creations with a Cadbury's Creme Egg and came up with my Creme Egg Bunny Feet. Who doesn't love the pitter-patter of bunny feet at Easter? The best part is these are even easier to make than the chicks and the Creme Egg Gruffalo as any wrinkles can be hidden by the carrots.

Why you will love making these Edible Bunny Feet

• These candy bunny feet make the perfect spring dessert at your dinner table or simply, wrap in cellophane and give away as Easter treats. Along with Easter cupcakes these would make wonderful Easter baskets.
• The good news is they are super quick to make and much cheaper than buying a traditional Easter Egg.
• Fun and bright - Even the most novice of cake decorator or young children can get involved.

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What ingredients and equipment you need to make a Creme Egg Easter Bunny

Sugar Glue and Paintbrush

I always make my own sugar glue as it is so cheap and easy. A new paintbrush from any craft shop or art shop is fine - You don't have to use expensive specialist cake decorating brushes.

Pallet Knife

A small, sharp kitchen knife will do but if you are going to continue with sugarcraft, I cannot recommend a mini pallet knife highly enough.

4" Cake Cards

Really cheap. Usually come in packs of 5 or 10 cake cards. Great for displaying your treats on.

Sieve

Brilliant for making the texture of the Bunny's Tail.

Rolling Pin

These 9" white rolling pins are brilliant and so convenient for any decorating. The fondant doesn't stick like it does to a wooden rolling piin and they will last for decades.

Chocolate Egg

Cadbury's Creme Eggs are my favourite but if you like others try them. They do need to be solid or filled eggs though as hollow eggs will not be strong enough to hold the fondant. I believe there are dairy-free chocolate eggs now for people who cannot tolerate dairy products.

Coloured Fondant

You will need white, pale grey, orange, green (pale green and some brighter for the end of the carrots) and pink fondant. I have gel food colours which are much more cost effective than buying ready coloured fondant but this is only because I do a lot of colouring fondant.

Garret Frill Cutter

I previously used this Garret Frill Cutter for the Creme Egg Chicks - Just a circle cut out for the board will do if you do not already have one.

Icing Sugar

You will need this for sprinkling on the work surface before rolling out. Just sprinkle with your hands if you do not own a icing sugar shaker (or you can use the sieve!)

How to make an Edible Creme Egg Easter Bunny

1 Roll pale green fondant out to around ½cm thickness and cut out a scalloped shape with the Garret Frill Cutter (or a simple circle). You won't be able to see much of this depending on how many carrots you add later. Using the edible glue, stick to the cake card.

2 Use either a small blog of black fondant or black gel colouring to make a very pale grey fondant.

3 Continue to knead the fondant until the colour is completely mixed through. A few streaks are fine.

4 Paint the Creme egg with edible glue.

5 Roll out the grey icing to around ⅓cm thickness.

6 Wrap around the glued egg and start to smooth down.

7 Cut off any excess fondant and continue to smooth down until wrapped fully around the egg.

8 You can disguise any cracks in the fondant by rubbing with a ball of same colour fondant dipped in icing sugar over the crack.

9 Stick a small ball of green icing onto the cake card on top of the green shape. Press down slightly to create a dip.

10 Paint edible glue on top of the green blob and stick the grey covered egg on top.

11 Take 2 large malteser sized balls of white fondant.

12 Roll into a tea drop shape, flatten down slightly and make an indent for the middle of the bunny feet (I use the end of the rolling pin for this or your finger)

13 Colour some pale pink fondant and stick balls to the white feet - One large, 3 very small.

14 Knead a ball of white fondant until very soft then place into the sieve.

15 Push through the sieve with the end of the rolling pin. Cut off with the pallet knife when you have enough to shape slightly into the shape of the bunny's bob tail.

16 Attach to the top of the bunny's body.

17 Take the orange fondant and roll into a selection of sized of orange balls.

18 Roll into carrot shapes and flatten down slighly. Using the pallet knife, make some indentations to create carrot markings.

19 Roll bright green fondant tiny sausages and stick 3 together to create carrot stalks. Alternatively, you can make these stalks by piping green thick icing through a piping bag. If you have any food dusts you can dust the carrots with a mixture of red and orange to create depth in your carrots. You can also dust the bunny feet with a deeper pink at this stage too, if you like but these are all optional.

How long can fondant decorations and cake toppers last for?

If you store them correctly, covered in a cardboard box in a dry space away from sunlight, they can keep for years and still look the same. The Creme Eggs tend to have a Best Before date of July in the year they are produced though.

Other Creations you might like to try making next:

Some of these use Creme Eggs but when these are out of season, I use Walnut Whips to get creative with.

Gruffalo Cake Topper

Creme Egg Minions

Peppa Pig Cake Topper

Walnut Whip Swedish Gnome/Gonk

Yoda Cake Topper

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