Since it was the time of year for all things Easter, the next choice after making chick cake pops and Easter egg cake pops was Easter Bunny cake pops. I really had a fun time making these!
I made the pops in an egg shape. Some I dipped in white candy coating, others I dipped in pink candy coating. Again, all were going to become Easter Bunny heads!
I used a red velvet cake mix, but added about 1/2 cup of high fat Dutch process cocoa to it. I like my pops to have a strong flavor since they are such small treats! These were very chocolaty- yum! You can see how pretty the intense red looked inside the pink and white coated pops. Click on the image to get a much bigger look!
Okay, these were so incredibly easy to make that I didn't take pics of the assembly process. I trimmed the tips off of pastel candy corn and used extra melted candy coating to glue the ears on. I made swirls of 'hair' between the ears to camouflage extra candy coating there. The nose was a glued on candy heart. The eyes and mouth were drawn on with edible ink pens. One has glued on pre-made sugar eyes, as you can see in the pic. It just made the cake pop look creepy to me. So I didn't bother making any more than that one.
I liked to try to coordinate the eye colors with the ear colors. Except for the pink-eared bunnies, for them I made the eyes blue.
I really had fun making the different faces on these guys! Bakerella (the amazing woman who came up with the cake pop concept) makes a certain style of eyes. They're cute, but I really like making my own style of eyes on the pops. And I enjoy giving them all expressions of their own.
Here are the pink bunnies! As you can see, I began running in my own direction with the faces. I like adding eyebrows to enhance their little faces.
And I began giving their mouths expressions, too. Kind of like they have something interesting to say.
I also liked the contrast between the red nose and the green eyes/ears.
Here is the whole batch of completed bunny heads!
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