Easter Bunny Peeps Cupcakes are a super easy and festive Easter cupcake that is perfect for any Easter Party! Homemade cupcakes, homemade frosting with some colored coconut topped with an Easter Bunny Peep is all you need to make these Peeps cupcakes!
Easter Bunny Peeps Cupcakes
Hip hop the Easter bunny Peeps cupcake is on its way! Or I should say it will be once you show them to the kids because they will be begging to make these super cute bunny cupcakes! I mean seriously look how stinkin CUTE they are!
These festive Easter Bunny cupcakes are made with made with your favorite cupcakes, homemade buttercream icing, died coconut and a Peep Bunny that are sure to make your easter party a TON of hippity Hoppity fun!
What Variations can you make to these Easter Cupcakes?
When I make these I tend to stick with vanilla cupcakes and vanilla buttercream frosting. You can change up the cupcake flavors and the cupcake frosting flavor if you want to. You can use totally homemade cupcakes or you can use the making a boxed cake taste homemade trick!
If you are not a fan of coconut you can skip that step, however if you are doing that then I suggest dying the frosting green so they look like a bunny sitting in the grass.
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Easter Bunny Peeps Cupcakes Ingredients
- 24 Cupcakes
- 1 batch Buttercream Frosting
- 2 cups sweetened Coconut
- 15-20 drops Green food coloring
- 24 Peeps Bunnies
- Mini Chocolate Easter eggs (optional)
Vanilla Cupcakes Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
- 1 1/4 cups cake flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Ingredients
- 1.5 cups Butter
- 1.5 cups Shortening
- 3 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 3 pounds Confectioners sugar
- 2 1/4 tablespoons hot water
How to Make Easter Bunny Peeps Cupcakes
How to Make Vanilla Cupcakes
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line your cupcake pans with your choose of cupcake wrappers.
Place your self-rising flour, cake flour, and sugar in the bowl of your mixer. Mix them together for a minute or two until they are well combined.
Cut your butter into tablespoon pieces. Slowly add your butter into the flour mixture one piece at a time continue mixing until you have reached the texture of sand.
Pour half of your milk into the flour mixture and mix just until the milk is incorporated. Use your rubber spatula to scrape down the sides of your bowl. Add your remaining milk and the vanilla to your batter and mix until combined.
Slowly add in one egg at a time to the cake batter, making sure each egg is incorporated before adding the next egg.
Scoop the batter into the prepared cupcake pan, filling them 3/4 of the way full.
Bake for 10 minutes then rotate the cake pans so the pan that was on the top rack is now on the bottom and the pan that was on the bottom is now on the top rack. Continue to bake for another 10-13 minute until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cupcake.
Transfer the cupcakes to a cooling rack until they have reached room temperature.
While the cupcakes are cooling make your frosting.
How to Make Easy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
Bring the butter to room temperature. Do NOT put it in the microwave to soften, put it on the kitchen counter and soften.
Add the butter and the shortening to the bowl of the stand mixer bowl. Using the paddle handle on the mixer to combine the two on medium speed.
Once butter and shortening are combined slowly add in the confectioners sugar and mix it little bit little until the sugar is incorporated into the butter/shortening mixture then add in the Vanilla Extract and let the mixer whip the frosting for 10 minutes to bring it to fluffy frosting.
If the frosting is thick add a little water a little bit at a time until you get to the consistency you are wanting.
Set the frosting aside until the cupcakes are done cooling.
Color the Coconut Green
Place coconut into a bowl and add a few drops of food coloring. Mix it up and add more food coloring if you would like a darker color grass.
How to Assemble Peeps Cupcakes
Fill a piping bag with buttercream and a large icing tip. Take your butter cream and pipe it onto the cupcake.
Then dip each cupcake into the green coconut and press it into the buttercream.
With your thumb press a small spot for the peep to sit and pipe a little buttercream in that spot, this will act as your glue.
Stick the peep into the buttercream.
Looking for more Easy Easter Recipes? Check these out!
- Chocolate Covered Peeps
- Peeps Smore Bars
- Easter Bunny Cupcakes
- Peep S’mores
- Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Eggs
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs
Easter Bunny Peeps Cupcakes
Ingredients
Easter Bunny Peeps Cupcakes Ingredients
- 24 Cupcakes
- 1 batch Buttercream Frosting
- 2 cups sweetened Coconut
- 15-20 drops Green food coloring
- 24 Peeps Bunnies
Vanilla Cupcakes Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
- 1 1/4 cups cake flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Ingredients
- 1.5 cups Butter
- 1.5 cups Shortening
- 3 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 3 pounds Confectioners sugar
- 2 1/4 tablespoons hot water
Recipe Video
Instructions
How to Make Easter Bunny Peeps Cupcakes
How to Make Vanilla Cupcakes
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line your cupcake pans with your choose of cupcake wrappers.
- Place your self-rising flour, cake flour, and sugar in the bowl of your mixer. Mix them together for a minute or two until they are well combined.
- Cut your butter into tablespoon pieces. Slowly add your butter into the flour mixture one piece at a time continue mixing until you have reached the texture of sand.
- Pour half of your milk into the flour mixture and mix just until the milk is incorporated. Use your rubber spatula to scrape down the sides of your bowl. Add your remaining milk and the vanilla to your batter and mix until combined.
- Slowly add in one egg at a time to the cake batter, making sure each egg is incorporated before adding the next egg.
- Scoop the batter into the prepared cupcake pan, filling them 3/4 of the way full.
- Bake for 10 minutes then rotate the cake pans so the pan that was on the top rack is now on the bottom and the pan that was on the bottom is now on the top rack. Continue to bake for another 10-13 minute until a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cupcake.
- Transfer the cupcakes to a cooling rack until they have reached room temperature.
- While the cupcakes are cooling make your frosting.
How to Make Easy Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
- Bring the butter to room temperature. Do NOT put it in the microwave to soften, put it on the kitchen counter and soften.
- Add the butter and the shortening to the bowl of the stand mixer bowl. Using the paddle handle on the mixer to combine the two on medium speed.
- Once butter and shortening are combined slowly add in the confectioners sugar and mix it little bit little until the sugar is incorporated into the butter/shortening mixture then add in the Vanilla Extract and let the mixer whip the frosting for 10 minutes to bring it to fluffy frosting.
- If the frosting is thick add a little water a little bit at a time until you get to the consistency you are wanting.
- Set the frosting aside until the cupcakes are done cooling.
Color the Coconut Green
- Place coconut into a bowl and add a few drops of food coloring. Mix it up and add more food coloring if you would like a darker color grass.
How to Assemble Peeps Cupcakes
- Fill a piping bag with buttercream and a large icing tip. Take your butter cream and pipe it onto the cupcake.
- Then dip each cupcake into the green coconut and press it into the buttercream.
- With your thumb press a small spot for the peep to sit and pipe a little buttercream in that spot, this will act as your glue.
- Stick the peep into the buttercream.
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