Easter Bunny Chocolate Cake
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- Total Time
- 1hr 20mins
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- Serves
- 12
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- Calories
- 638
This cake is perfect for an Easter party, and will be loved by kids and adults. For this cake you will need a 20cm/8 inch round cake tin.
recipe updated Mar 13, 2025
Ingredients
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- Chocolate fingers
- as needed
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- Chocolate eggs
- as needed
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- White fondant
- 60 g
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- Pink fondant
- 5 g
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- Dark chocolate
- 150 g
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- Whipping cream
- 120 g
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- Butter
- 30 g
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- Runny honey
- 30 g
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- All purpose flour
- 225 g
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- Caster sugar
- 250 g
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- Cocoa powder
- 255 g
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- Baking soda
- ½ teaspoon
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- Baking powder
- 1 teaspoon
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- Salt
- ¾ teaspoon
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- Water
- 160 g
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- Instant coffee
- 1 teaspoon
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- Egg
- 2
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- Buttermilk
- 160 g
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- Vegetable oil
- 60 g
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- Vanilla extract
- 3 teaspoons
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- Butter
- 150 g
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- Icing sugar
- 350 g
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- Milk
- 30 g
Tools
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Oven
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Cooling rack
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Rolling pin
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kCook Multi
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Serving plate
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Kcook bowl
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Work surface
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Small bowl
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Round pan - 20cm (8")
Step preview
- Grease a clean round pan
- Pre-heat oven - 150°C
- Fit stir tool to kCook bowl
- Add all purpose flour, caster sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt to the kCook bowl
- Fit kCook bowl to kCook Multi
- Attach lid to kCook bowl with filler cap fitted
- Mix with filler cap fitted - 20 sec, speed 6
- Add water and instant coffee to a clean small bowl
- Mix with teaspoon until dissolved
- Transfer content of small bowl to kCook bowl
- Add egg, buttermilk, vegetable oil and vanilla extract to the kCook bowl
- Mix with filler cap fitted then scrape bowl - 30 sec, speed 7
- Mix with filler cap fitted - 30 sec, speed 7
- Transfer batter to round pan
- Bake - 35 min, 150°C
- Turn out onto cooling rack and let cool
- Cut into halves
- Clean kCook bowl
- Fit max blade to kCook bowl
- Add cocoa powder, butter, vanilla extract, icing sugar and milk to the kCook bowl
- Fit kCook bowl to kCook Multi
- Attach lid to kCook bowl with filler cap fitted
- Mix with filler cap fitted - 2 min, speed 10
- Place one sponge on serving plate
- Cover cake with icing
- Clean kCook bowl
- Fit stir tool to kCook bowl
- Add dark chocolate, whipping cream, butter and runny honey to the kCook bowl
- Fit kCook bowl to kCook Multi
- Attach lid to kCook bowl
- Heat with filler cap removed - 5 min, 45°C, speed 3
- Transfer icing to cake
- Decorate with chocolate fingers and chocolate eggs
- Place white fondant on a clean work surface
- Shape into a ball
- Flatten one side slightly for the feet and make a circular indent in the middle for the tail
- Make the feet by forming two rectangles with one end slightly smaller
- Using a little water stick the feet to the body
- Make a slight dip in the bottom of the feet
- Roll a small ball for the tail, pinch a small part of the ball
- Use scissors to make small cuts over the ball to make a fluffy effect
- Using a little water stick the tail to the body where the indent was made
- Use the rest of the paste to shape ears
- Place pink fondant on the work surface
- Roll out
- Use the tip of a round piping tip to cut out 6 circles
- Cut out some foot pads from the rest of the paste
- Using a little water stick the pads to the feet and the circles where toes would be
- Place the bunny body on top of the cake in the space in the chocolate eggs
- Stick the ears just in front of the body straight up
- Serve