Cute Bunny Cupcakes
Description
This recipe yields cute bunny cupcakes decorated with fluffy white coconut and pink graham cracker ears, chocolate chip eyes, and pink frosting noses.
Ingredients
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2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
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2 cups white sugar
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1 teaspoon baking powder
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1/2 teaspoon baking soda
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1 1/3 cups buttermilk
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1/2 cup vegetable shortening
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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1/8 teaspoon salt
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4 egg whites
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2 (16 ounce) packages vanilla frosting, divided
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sweetened flake coconut, or as needed
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1 drop red food coloring, or as needed
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12 whole graham cracker squares (4 cookies each)
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48 miniature semisweet chocolate chips
Directions
1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line two 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners.
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Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda together in a large bowl until well combined. Beat in buttermilk, vegetable shortening, vanilla, and salt until thoroughly combined. Beat in egg whites until incorporated. Pour batter into the prepared cups, filling each ⅔ full.
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Bake in the preheated oven until cupcakes are lightly browned, about 30 minutes. Cool.
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Frost cupcakes with 1 frosting container; sprinkle tops with coconut.
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Place ½ remaining frosting package in a bowl; tint with red food coloring until pink. Set aside remaining ½ package white frosting for decorating.
6
Break graham crackers into 48 individual cookies; cut each cookie carefully into a leaf shape pointed at both ends to make 48 ears. Cover each ear with reserved white frosting; frost inside of each ear shape with pink frosting. Stick 2 ears into each cupcake. Push 2 mini chocolate chips into tops of cupcakes below ears to make eyes; add a dot of pink frosting to each cupcake for a nose.