Cake in the form of a lurking Easter bunny looks very realistic, and quite easy to assemble, following all the tips in recipe. The basis of the cake will be your favorite biscuit, you can from the purchase mixtures. Bake two cakes (they should cool completely before assembly), prepare butter icing and various sweets for decor. Sweet coconut flakes will become rabbit fur, ears make biscotti out of stretched cookies, teeth, nose and eyes will be out white, pink and black jelly beans, mustache – from black licorice rope, and paws and muzzle – from marshmallow. Lay out around the snow-white rabbit bright Easter eggs and delight your близких эффектным угощением. 
Time: 1 hour. Difficulty: medium Servings: 12 – 14 The recipes use volumetric containers with a volume of: 1 glass (st.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (Art.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml
Ingredients for the recipe:
Rabbit
- 2 ready-made biscuit cakes with a diameter of 22 cm. (According to any recipe to choose from or from the finished mixture (0.5 kg.) for the cake)
- 1 and 1/4 Art. sweet scythe shavings
- 2 purchased biscotti
- 1 tube of pink decorative glaze
- 2 black marmalade dragees
- 2 marshmallows
- 1 white marmalade dragee cut in half along
- 1 pink marmalade dragee
- 1 skein of black licorice rope
Glaze
- 6 tbsp. powdered sugar
- 340 gr butter, room temperature
- A pinch of fine salt
- 1 tbsp. l vanilla extract
- 2-3 tbsp. l milk
Recipes with similar ingredients: biscuit, marmalade, marshmallows, coconut, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, milk
Recipe preparation:
- Glaze: in a bowl of a stationary mixer with a nozzle mix sugar, butter and salt (or in large bowl if using a hand mixer). Mix on low speeds to distribute all the ingredients. Add the vanilla increase the speed to moderately high and beat until well homogeneous mass. If necessary, add up to 3 tbsp. l milk to make a pasty icing.
- Rabbit: apply thin on the flat side of one cake a layer of glaze (about 2/3 st.) and cover with the flat side of the second cake Step back from the top of the cake 12.5 cm. And cut the cakes, to get 2 semicircular, different in size two-layer piece.
- Put a larger slice of the cake with the slice down on a large dish or stand for cake. If you use a rectangular stand, put the larger piece so that it is located along the long side of the stand. This is the body of a rabbit. Cut a smaller piece cake in half. Place one piece in front of the body so that so that one cut is below, and the other is placed against the body. Rounded side should be on top. Take a serrated knife and round sharp edges on the crown. Cut off the tip (nose) at an angle of 45 °. Everything fold the trimmers in a bowl.
- Separate the layers of the remaining piece of cake. These will be the hind legs. Round off the pointed edges of the cakes with a knife. Bait one at a time a piece on each side of the rabbit so that one cut is at the bottom, and the other was looking forward (the round side facing the back rabbit), about 2 cm from the posterior edge of the rabbit’s trunk.
- Mash the trimmed cakes in a bowl with a fork until the consistency of mashed potatoes, and then form a ball with your hands. Put the ball to the back of the rabbit and attach a drop of glaze. It will be a tail.
- Using 2-3 tbsp. glaze, cover it with the whole rabbit with paws and tail so that its parts of the body are distinguishable and, causing more glazes where you need to smooth out angular places. Sprinkle on top coconut flakes, completely covering it with the rabbit. Neatly pat the chips so that it sticks.
- Insert between the head and torso of biscotti, pressing them to to fix. These are rabbit ears. Slide your ears at the base so that they stood at an angle to each other. Lubricate the front of each ear white icing.
- Then with a pink decorative glaze draw a smaller strip in center of each biscotti, dropping down to the base of the ears but not reaching to their tips from above.
- To make a rabbit face, on each side of the head press on black marmalade jelly. It will be the eyes. Cut one marshmallow for 3 circles, the middle part will not be needed, but the remaining 2 circles, press the slices to the head to get pads for mustache. Insert the halves of the white marmalade dragee below the pads, cuts to the head to make teeth. Сделайтеnose of pink marmalade dragee.
- Roll the licorice rope and cut 2 pieces 4 cm long. Divide each piece to half length into separate threads to the panicle turned out. Insert each piece by attaching a drop glaze, behind the marshmallow cheek so that it looks like a mustache.
- Cut in half the second marshmallow. Make 3 slots in each half, not cutting to the end (these are the fingers), and secure them in front of the rabbit’s paws. Glue the feet with glaze if necessary. Note Cut 2.5 sheets of parchment paper in half. Cover the edges of your cake stand with these rectangles so that there is open space in the middle. Collect the cake by inside edges of parchment sheets. When you finish work, then You can remove excess paper from the stand. coconut flakes and glaze. Before applying glaze cakes should cool completely.
