cute bunny cupcakes

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/3 cups buttermilk
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 4 egg whites
• 2 (16 ounce) packages vanilla frosting, divided
• sweetened flake coconut, or as needed
• 1 drop red food coloring, or as needed
• 12 whole graham cracker squares (4 cookies each)
• 48 miniature semisweet chocolate chips

Recipe

Cook Time: 30 mins Ready Time: 2 hrs


• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c). line 24 cupcake cups with paper liners.
• whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda together in a bowl. beat buttermilk, vegetable shortening, vanilla extract, and salt into dry ingredients until thoroughly combined; beat egg whites into batter. pour batter into prepared cupcake cups, filing them 2/3 full.
• bake in the preheated oven until cupcakes are lightly browned, about 30 minutes. let cool.
• divide a container of frosting in half and tint half pink with red food coloring; set remaining vanilla frosting aside. use second frosting container to frost cupcakes. cover cupcakes with coconut.
• break graham crackers into individual cookies and cut each cookie carefully into a leaf shape pointed at both ends to make 48 ears. cover each ear with remaining white frosting and frost the 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 for a nose.