With the sun shining and flowers blooming a new baking season is upon

us, and we’ve got the treats that will put a little hop in your step! How To
Cake It has collaborated with our cakemunity member Shannon Murphy
to bring you recipes that are 100% Easter Bunny approved- not to mention
fun, easy, and delicious. We encourage you to have fun with these recipes,
making sweet memories in the kitchen using your fave candies, flavors,
and colors!

TABLE OF CONTEN TS

Coconut Carrot Bunny Cake 3

Chocolate Creme Egg Cookies 10

Marshmallow Treats Easter Egg 16

Surprise Inside Candy Eggs 17

∙ Carrot Cake x2
(4lbs, 14oz)
∙ 600g (4 cups)
all-purpose flour
∙ 1 Tbsp & 1 tsp baking
powder
∙ 2 tsp baking soda
∙ 2 tsp cinnamon
∙ 1 tsp salt
4
∙ 6 cups grated carrots
∙ 300g (1⅓ cup) light
brown sugar
∙ 1 ⅓ cup vegetable oil
∙ 8 eggs
∙ 1 cup raisins
∙ 3 cups shredded
coconut
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4 5 6

7 8 9

Preheat the oven to Grate the carrots Divide 2lbs of batter

325 and add them to the into your cake pans
dry ingredients
Line the bottom of Bake for 1 hour or
two 6” pans with Whisk together the until a cake tester
parchment paper brown sugar, oil and comes out clean
eggs. Add them to
Sift together the Let your cakes cool
the carrot and flour
flour, baking completely before
mixture
powder, baking removing from pans
soda, cinnamon and Fold in the raisins
salt

5
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While your cake is chilling make fondant ears for your bunny:

roll out white fondant and attach pink to white using

use a template to cut out water to glue in place
an ear shape
set your ears in half paper
insert toothpicks into the rolls and fold one over to
bottom dry
thinly roll out pink
fondant and use a template
to cut out inner ears

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AMERICAN BUT TERCREAM

∙ 1lb (454g) butter ∙ Pinch of salt

∙ 8 cups icing sugar ∙ 2-4 Tbsp milk

∙ 1 Tbsp & 1 tsp vanilla

7
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Whip together butter, Slowly add milk until

vanilla, salt, and icing icing reaches desired
sugar on med/high until consistency
combined and fluffy

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4 5 6

7 8 9

Use a ruler and Use a piping bag to Dip spaghetti

serrated knife to help ice your cake into melted white
level your cakes chocolate to create
Don’t chill your whiskers
Stack your cake cake, and press
layers with coconut onto the Insert your ears,
buttercream, surface to create a and whiskers into
sprinkling coconut fur like appearance your cake, and use
between layers a pink M&M for a
nose
Crumb coat your
cake and chill for 20
minutes

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 CREME EG G FILLING

∙ 1 & 1/2 cup icing sugar ∙ 1 & 1/2 tsp vanilla

∙ 2-3 Tbsp milk ∙ Lemon yellow and

buttercup yellow colours

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Whisk together the icing Add in tiny bits of

sugar, milk and vanilla the lemon yellow and
buttercup yellow colours
until you are happy with
an egg yolk colour

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 CHEW Y CHO COLATE CO OKIES

∙ 10oz (280g) butter ∙ 3/4 cup cocoa powder

∙ 400g (2 cups) sugar ∙ 300g (2 cups) all-

purpose flour
∙ 2 eggs ∙ 1 tsp baking soda

∙ 1 Tbsp vanilla ∙ 1/2 tsp salt

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Cream together the butter Slowly add the dry

and sugar on low until ingredients to the butter-
fluffy mixture

Add the eggs and vanilla to
the butter until combined
Sift together the cocoa,
flour, baking soda and salt
Chill the dough for 2 hour
Roll the dough in 1.5
inch balls (don’t flatten)
and bake at 325 for 12-14
minutes

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ASSEMBLY

pipe a ring of sandwich a second

buttercream around cookie on top
your cookie

fill with egg yolk

filling

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∙ ½ cup white candy
melts
∙ ¼ cup blue candy melts
∙ milk chocolate candy
melts
∙ marshmallow chicks
∙ sprinkles
∙ Easter candies of your
choosing
∙ pretzel sticks

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use a paint brush to pour mixture into add another layer to

speckle your mold mold, and coat your eggs and freeze
with melted milk pouring out excess once more
chocolate
place in the freezer carefully remove
combine white for 20 minutes or your egg halves
and blue candy until set from their mold
melts in a bowl and
microwave until
melted

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heat the edge of one fill half with candy heat the edge of
half in a hot pan mixture and a your second half in
marshmallow chick a hot pan and seal
your egg

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Coat bowl with non-stick Pour the pretzels in the

spray and set aside
Melt the chocolate in the
microwave in 10-20 second
intervals until it is melted
greased bowl, and form a
nest
Set in the fridge to set for
about 20-30 minutes

Mix the pretzels with the Remove nest, and set

chocolate until pretzels candy egg on top
are coated

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 We love collaborating with sweet members of the cake
community, and Shannon Murphy has been an incredible
member behind the scenes of How To Cake It
for quite some time- you can even catch her
showcasing her talents on Step By Step!

Shannon started her caking journey after high

school, combining her artistic side with a love
of baking to create amazing confections. After
working at a few bakeries, Shannon decided
to branch out and create her own custom
cake business so she can freely explore her
creativity making amazing confections- follow
along with her journey on

@shannonmcakes!
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