16 Cute Bunny Birthday Cake Ideas For Beginner And Pro Bakers.

Looking for Bunny Cake Ideas? Here you’ll find 16 beautiful Bunny cake ideas, including easy designs with instructions to recreate them. Whether you’re simply looking for inspiration or want to recreate one of these cakes yourself for Easter or a birthday, you’re in the perfect place

How to find a Bunny cake idea suited to your cake-decorating level?

I’ve come up with a system. The cake ideas are presented to you according to their level of difficulty. There are three categories :

What Are Beginner Cake Ideas?

These are easy cake ideas. If you’ve never decorated a cake before (or only did it once or twice), these are the cakes that you should pay attention to.

• What you’ll find: Beautiful cake ideas that only require basic cake decorating techniques. This is a great place to start your journey.

What Are Intermediate Cake Ideas?

Low Intermediate Baker: If you are confident that you’ve mastered the cake decorating basics, such as how to smooth a cake, but feel like you still have a lot of techniques to learn apart from this foundation, this category is perfect for you.

• What you’ll find: Bunny Cake ideas that require both basic decorating skills and one or two techniques that are a little bit more advanced. This is a great place to grow your cake-decorating skills.

High Intermediate Baker: If you’ve mastered both basic techniques and several more advanced cake decorating techniques, these cake ideas are made for you.

• What you’ll find: Stunning cake ideas that can be fairly challenging, but are a great place to get even better than you already are.

What Are Advanced Cake Ideas?

If you consider yourself an experienced cake decorator and have mastered most of the decorating techniques, including the use of fondant, then this is the perfect place for you.

• What you’ll find: Showstopping and challenging cake ideas, perfect to sharpen and maintain your skills.

The Grading System

Finally, I’ve also assigned a grade of difficulty to each cake inspiration: 1/5 being the easiest design and 5/5 being the hardest. The goal is to make the ranking the most accurate possible. You will find this to be particularly helpful if you happen to fall in the Beginner or the Intermediate Cake Ideas categories.

Growth Tip : This list is great a place to set goals about your cake decorating skills. Pin this post and come back later to tell us how far you’ve come in your cake decorating journey !

How to recreate these Bunny cake ideas?

What cake recipe should you use to make your perfect cake come true?

To recreate these cake ideas, you will need a trustworthy cake recipe. You have several options.

Adapt your favorite cake recipe.

There are a lot of ways to adapt a cake recipe. You mainly have four options to tweak your favorite recipe :

• You could change the flavor of your cake recipe: with citrus zest, the essence of your choice, or turn it into a chocolate or carrot cake for example.
• You could add a filling: a caramel sauce, a homemade flavored whipped cream, ganache, or buttercream.
• You could also add some texture: oreo bits, crumble crumbs, nuts, or fresh fruit for example.
• Finally, you could personalize your frosting.

Be careful, if you’re a beginner baker, having to figure out both your cake design and creating a new cake recipe could be overwhelming. Therefore, I always recommend taking your learning journey one step at a time.

Look for a cake recipe.

Where? You can ask friends, or family or simply look on the internet. You have to keep two things in mind though :

• The recipe has to be suitable for cake decorating, especially for cakes that require stacking or carving (intermediate and advanced cake ideas).
• Once again, if you’re a beginner baker, be careful not to put too much on your plate and choose a recipe suited to your current level.

Use my cake recipe recommendation.

Finally, there’s no recipe more suited to a bunny cake design than a carrot cake recipe. I highly recommend you try the recipe developed by Chelsweets.

What you will love about this recipe :

• It tastes amazing.
• It’s a beginner-friendly recipe.
• It’s perfect for cake decorating.

How to follow the instructions of the designs.

For the cake designs in the beginner category: I’ll provide written instructions on how to recreate the cake idea presented to you. Don’t hesitate to watch video tutorials about the basic techniques such as how to smooth a cake.

For the designs in the intermediate category: I’ll provide some guidance on how to perform the more complicated techniques.

For the advanced category: you are an experienced baker, at this point, and you will find great opportunities to put this experience to use. To be completely honest, I cannot make myself several cake ideas from the advanced category, so trust your abilities and go for it.

Find the perfect Bunny cake idea for your baking skills.

Growth Tip : If you aim to get better at cake decorating, you should choose a cake idea that feels sligthly above your current cake decorating level. Get out of your comfort zone !

Bunny Cake Ideas Perfect for Beginner Bakers

Here, you’ll find 3 easy Bunny cake ideas perfect for beginner cake decorators.

Easy Bunny Cake.

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Difficulty Level: 1/5.

As a beginner cake decorator, the first technique you have to acquire is how to frost a cake. From there you’ll be able to create a ton of beautiful cake designs like this one.

What you will need:

• Enough frosting to cover your cake
• A bunny cake topper.
• Ball cake toppers

How to recreate this cake?

1. First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
2. Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
3. It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
4. Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
5. Chill your cake for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
6. Finally, place your cake toppers following the picture or your heart’s desire.

What you’ve learned :

Once you know how to cover a cake with frosting, a ton of cake design opportunities open to you.

Ballerina Bunny Cake

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Difficulty Level: 1/5.

As a beginner cake decorator, cake toppers allow you to easily personalize a cake, which makes them your best friend.

What you will need :

• Enough frosting to cover your cake.
• Bunny cake toppers.
• Edible pearls.

How to recreate this cake?

1. First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake
2. Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
3. It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
4. Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
5. Place your edible pearls and chill your cake for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
6. Finally, place your cake toppers following the picture or your heart’s desire.

What you’ve learned :

Thanks to cake toppers, even beginner cake decorators can create beautiful cake designs.

If you’re looking for more easy cake ideas, check out my post about Easter cake ideas, which also includes beautiful bunny cake ideas.

Bunny Cake Ideas for Intermediate Bakers

Here, you’ll find 6 Bunny cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.

Sprinkles Bunnies Cake

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Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)

If you’re looking for a cute cake design to transition from beginner to low intermediate designs, this is the perfect cake idea to do so.

A little guidance

If you’re wondering how to recreate these sprinkles bunnies, you can easily follow this shaped sprinkles tutorial and adapt it to the shape of your choice. Also, here’s a great tutorial to teach you how to pipe beautiful buttercream swirls.

Blue Bunny Cake

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Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)

If you’re looking for a more simple design, this baby blue bunny cake might be the perfect fit. As a low intermediate cake decorator, I recommend you buy your bunny cake topper to not overwhelm yourself.

A little guidance

This cake design is the perfect opportunity to start practicing fondant flowers. Here’s a beginner-friendly tutorial to learn how to create different types of fondant flowers.

Doodle Bunny Cake

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Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)

If you’re looking for a cute and simple cake, this might be the perfect design for you.

A little guidance

There are no special techniques or tips to recreate these buttercream doodles. All you need is parchment paper to practice on until you’re confident enough to move on to the cake.

Bunny Birthday Cake

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Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)

If you’re looking for a cute cake design that doesn’t require too much technique, this might be the perfect design for you.

A little guidance

This cake is another great introduction to fondant. Here are two tips: you should roll your fondant to a thickness between 1/8th inch and 1/4 inch and you should follow a paper pattern when cutting your fondant to get the neatest result possible.

Vintage Bunny Cake

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Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)

Vintage cakes are really trendy these days, so if that’s what you’re looking for you’re going to love this cake design.

A little guidance

If you don’t know how to recreate this design, you can follow this shell border tutorial using an open star piping tip like the 4B. For the ruffles, you should use a petal nozzle. Remember, you can always practice on parchment paper before piping on the actual cake.

3D Bunny Cake

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Difficulty level: 3/5 (Intermediate)

Nothing’s more iconic to Easter than the Easter Bunny. This cake design will amaze all of your guests on Easter Day.

A little guidance

Here’s a very quick tutorial to teach you how to recreate the fondant elements. And if you’ve never used Russian piping tips before, you’ll need this quick Russian piping tips tutorial and some practice on parchment paper.

Colorful Easter Bunny Cake.

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Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)

If you’re in need of something colorful that immediately stands out from the crowd, you’ll love this Colorful Easter Bunny Cake.

A little guidance

If you wonder how to recreate these stripes, you can simply follow this striped buttercream tutorial.

And if you’re looking for more easter bunny cake ideas, check out my 14 Beautiful Easter Cake Ideas.

Elegant Bunny Cake

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Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)

If you’re more interested in elegant cake designs, this might be a cake more suited to your needs.

A little guidance

To recreate these beautiful flowers, you can follow this easy palette knife flower tutorial.

Cute Bunny Cake

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Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)

If you’re a buttercream lover and are looking for a cute bunny cake design, this is the perfect cake for you.

A little guidance

When sculpting your buttercream, you should use a soft cake scrapper to smooth it out and get the cleanest finish possible.

Bunny Cake Ideas for Advanced Bakers

These 4 Bunny cake designs are perfect for experienced cake decorators.

Bunny’s Head Cake

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Difficulty Level: 5/5

If you’re looking for a cute but original cake design, this standing cake is the perfect match.

Bunny’s Home Cake

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Difficulty Level: 5/5

If you’re in need of an original cake design but wish it to be more colorful, this bunny’s home cake might be more suitable for what you’re looking for.

Floral Bunny Cake

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Difficulty level: 5/5

If you’re hosting a lot of guests and want to impress adults and children alike, this floral bunny cake would be a great option.

Floating Bunny Cake

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Difficulty Level: 5/5

You might prefer this floating cake and its knit buttercream. This type of piping does require a lot of patience, but the end result looks absolutely amazing.

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