Bunny cake

2 cooked layers of cake. Any flavor any style but must be two round layers. Before I started baking I liked Duncan Hines yellow cake mix
Frosting to cover two cake layers. Preferably white. Canned is fine. This is not about being gourmet but having an easy festive dessert
Red food coloring and any other color you like
Sweetened shredded coconut
Licorice laces
Jelly beans

Cooks and cool layers. Leave one layer uncut and frost with white frosting. sprinkle with coconut. Set on the bottom of a foil covered baking tray as shown in second picture.
Cut ears out of second cake. The middle will be the bow.
Frost ears with white frosting. Sprinkle coconut along the sides leaving a middle section without coconut.
Tint remaining frosting with a couple drops of frosting to make pink. Frost the inside of the ears with pink. Frost the bow with pink icing or add some blue to make purple or yellow to make orange.
Outline bow with licorice laces.
Give the bunny licorice lace whiskers, jelly bean eyes and nose and teeth.

This is simple and festive for spring. I’ve tried making the bunny cake that sits up but well, it turned out very ugly. Your kids can also help decorate, and you can skip the coconut. We’ve had bunny cakes decorated with jelly beans, White chocolate chips, frosting that’s been swooped up to make it look more furry. I’m posting some of our other years below.