Gum Paste Easter Bunnies

There has got to be some gum paste Easter bunnies on my Easter cake. You can make them sitting or lying down in any form and they look just adorable. I show you how to make the two I know - simple easy and quick in this video and picture tutorial.

I was going to make some bunnies on my Easter cake, I thought why not make a little tutorial and show you how easy it is to make these bunnies? You must forgive me that my camera is not a big fancy one, so the picture tutorial's quality is not so good.

I then made a video tutorial which I updated in this post instead of making a new post so you can find both the pictorial and the video here.

I have used this technique to make my gum paste Easter bunnies on many cakes.

How to make gum paste Easter bunnies pictorial

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Proportions - Divide the fondant or gumpaste for the parts. Large white for the body, medium for the head, small pink for the ears, tiny pink for the nose, and tiny white for the tail. Black edible pen for the eyes and a knife to cut and shape

Gum paste bunny one

• Body - Take a golf size ball of white fondant and shape it into a teardrop.
  • Take another small ball of pink fondant and shape it into a flat teardrop.
  • Stick it to the front of the white teardrop and set it upright
• Head - Take another small ball of white fondant and roll it into a teardrop.
  • Then, flatten the long end of the teardrop and make a cut in between to make two long teardrops for the ears.
  • Add, two small teardrops of pink, place them on the ears and flatten them further.
  • Use the back of your knife to mark a line in the center. Shape the ears and twist them slightly to give them character.
• Face - Mark the eyes with your black food pen, and use the tiny pink ball to shape the nose into a triangle. Use a toothpick to mark the whiskers.
• Feet - Take two small marble size balls of white fondant and shape them into two teardrops. Flatten them and use the back of the knife to make the paws. Use pink fondant dots for the flat of the feet and paws.
• Tail - roll a tiny white ball into a teardrop, flatten, and stick it on.
• Combine - Place a toothpick in the body you made earlier. Place the head on the body.

Gum paste bunny 2

• Body - Roll the body into a teardrop, then shape it into a sitting position. Divide the long end of the teardrop into two and shape them into two paws.
• Tail - roll a tiny white ball into a teardrop, flatten, and stick it on the backend of the body.
• Head - Take another small ball of white fondant and roll it into a teardrop.
  • Then, flatten the long end of the teardrop and make a cut in between to make two long teardrops for the ears.
  • Add, two small teardrops of pink, place them on the ears and flatten them further.
  • Use the back of your knife to mark a line in the center. Shape the ears and twist them slightly to give them character.
• Face - Mark the eyes with your black food pen, and use the tiny pink ball to shape the nose into a triangle. Use a toothpick to mark the whiskers.
• Place a toothpick in the body. Make the head exactly the same way I showed you for the above bunny.
• Combine - Place a toothpick in the body you made earlier. Place the head on the body.

Here's one - a basket with Easter eggs and bunnies.

You must remember this Easter cake with Peter rabbit - I have a soft corner for this one. My kids' favorite.

Here's my kid's favorite Easter cake

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