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Let's Make Easy Easter Brownies with Bunny Sugar Toppers!
• Lynsey Macdonald
The only thing better than regular brownies is super cute Easter brownies! Easy to make and oh-so-delicious, they are the dream addition to any chocolate lover’s spring treat table. In this tutorial, the amazing Vicki from @acakeonlife shows us how to decorate a batch in the most adorable way for Easter, and we bet you’ll be as obsessed as we are!
Keep reading for a list of everything you need, a step-by-step guide AND a video showing how Vicki created these Easter Brownies…
Serving Size: Makes 12 smaller or 9 larger brownies
Difficulty: Brownies - Beginner. Toppers - Hobby Baker.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook time: 35mins (but we recommend 2hours in the fridge to set afterwards)
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Ingredients FunCakes Fudge Brownie Mix (requires 3 eggs and 250g butter) Renshaw Flower And Modelling Paste Colour Mill Forest Green, Orange and Candy Pink Over The Top Chocolate Buttercream Oreos (or your choice of dark chocolate biscuit!) – optional! |
Tools FMM Non-Stick Smart Mat FMM Firm Foam Pad FMM Daisy Cutter PME Blade and Shell Tool PME Ball Tool PME Dresden Tool FMM Flute and Vein Tool PME Small Needle Tool Sable Brush No.0 Culpitt Small Non Stick Mat (Green) Simply Making Treat Box Simply Making 12 by 9 Inch Cake Board Matt (used for photographing only) |
The modelling paste and colourings are going to be for making your own toppers! If you're in a rush, you can browse our Easter sugar toppers and Easter sprinkles and grab some ready made decorations...
Step One: Colour your modelling paste
First things first – colour your modelling paste! Keep some white modelling paste aside for the bunny and then create three balls of paste – colour the largest orange, the middle size green and the smallest pink! Start with just a couple of drops and knead in thoroughly. Add more if needed until you reach your ideal shade.
Step Two: Create your carrot shapes
Chop your orange paste into 8 equally sized pieces and gently roll them into the shape of a carrot.
Step Three: Use tools to add detail
Use your decorating tools to perfect that shape and create some detail – this will make your toppers so much more eye-catching!
Use your ball tool to create a little dent in the top to push your leaf into.
Step Four: Make your flower shapes
Using your Daisy cutter (or similar), cut out eight green flower shapes. Again, use your decorating tools to tease these out before adding them to the top of your carrots and pushing the edges up to create the iconic leafy top.
Step Five: Mould your bunny feet and tail
Next, take a ball of white modelling paste, and three smaller pieces – these will form the feet and tail! Mould the largest piece into an oval shape and hold it up against your brownies to make sure you’re happy with the size.
Step Six: Add detail to the feet
Using your ball and dresden tools, create the indentations on the feet and add your pink modelling paste for the ball of the foot and three little toes – this is super cute and sure to be a hit!!
Step Seven: Attach all the pieces
Attach the feet and the tail to the oval to complete the topper! You can use your needle tool to create some texture on the tail.
Step Eight: Bake your brownies!
Now it’s time to bake your brownies! You might have a recipe of your own that you swear by, but if you’re looking for a quick way to whip up a batch, we recommend the FunCakes Fudge Brownie mix. So delicious!
Step Nine: Add your buttercream and crushed biscuit
Allow them to cool and then cover in a layer of chocolate buttercream! Vicki then added a sprinkling of crushed Oreos for an effective layer of “edible soil” – optional but a very cute touch!
Step Ten: Position your toppers
Now you’re ready to add your beautiful toppers for the PERFECT Easter Brownies! Push the carrots into the buttercream a little – that bunny has to dig for them, after all!
Step Eleven: Pop in a gift box
And last but not least, pop your brownies into one of our handy window lid treat boxes to keep them safe and show them off at the same time. It’s the loveliest Easter gift!
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We hope you love these Easter Brownies as much as we do!! Every time Vicki creates something for a seasonal event, we know it’s going to be almost too cute to eat – thank you for sharing the tutorial with us.
If you try recreating these treats, we would love to see how they turn out. You can share them with us by tagging us on Instagram (@the_cake_decorating_co) and using #CakeDecFamous!
Hoppy baking, everyone! We hope you have an egg-cellent Easter! And don’t forget to chick out our entire Easter collection here (okay, okay, we’ll stop with the puns!)…
All photo credit in this post goes to @acakeonlife.
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