Candy Surprise Bunny

A white fondant bunny figurine with large green eyes amidst colorful Easter eggs
Kim Simons
Intermediate
Make an adorable Easter bunny from rice-cereal treats and fondant, complete with a hollow chocolate body filled with candy.

Supply List

Fondant: white, pink, and green
White chocolate melting wafers
Edible colors
Edible chocolate colors
Edible powder colors
Edible markers: green and black
Candy: jelly beans, chocolate pieces, marshmallows, and peeps
Piping gel
Wooden dowel
Torch
Metal plate
FoamCore
Rice treats
Silicone mat
Silicone molds
French rolling pin
Cake tools
Ball tool
Glass bowls
Spoons
Paint brushes

Instructions

  • Sculpt the body out of rice-cereal treats.
    Hands shaping a rice-cereal treat into a bunny body shape.
  • Roll out fondant in the color of your choice.
  • Cover the body in the fondant. Trim away the excess. Smooth with hands.
    Hand pressing the rice-cereal body onto rolled white fondant.
  • Add detail (fur) to the body with a cake tool.
    Hand using a cake tool to add fur texture to the fondant bunny body.
  • Sculpt a head out of rice treats. Add some lumps of fondant for the face and smooth out. Cover with thinly-rolled fondant. Trim away the excess. Smooth with hands. Sculpt out eye sockets with a ball tool.
    Hand using a ball tool to shape the fondant-covered bunny head.
  • Add a smile with a cake tool. Detail fur using a cake tool.
    Hand using a cake tool to carve a smile on the fondant bunny face.
  • Attach head to body using a wooden dowel. Smooth in fondant on the neck to solidify.
  • Attach body to FoamCore board with piping gel. Cover the rest of the board in green fondant to look like grass.
    Hand brushing the bunny body attached to a green fondant base.
  • Roll two small cylinders of fondant for feet. Sculpt toes with a cake tool. Attach to body by smoothing in fondant.
    Hand using a tool to shape fondant feet on the bunny body.
  • Shape ears out of fondant and attach to head. Roll two balls of fondant for eyes and add to sockets. Sculpt nose out of fondant of your choice and add to face. Do the same for bucked teeth. Roll another ball of fondant and attach to the backside for a cotton tail.
    Hand adjusting fondant buck teeth on the bunny face with pink ears.
  • Add and color irises with an edible marker. Brush head and body with edible powder to add shade and depth.
    Close-up of the bunny face with green irises, pink nose, and ears.
  • Melt vanilla chocolate wafers. Add edible colors of your choice. Stir.
    Hand stirring pink, green, and blue melted chocolate in glass bowls.
  • Add the mixture to ball-half molds and coat the inside. Let harden.
    Hand pouring melted white chocolate into a silicone half-sphere mold.
  • Pop the hardened chocolate out of the molds. Fill half of the chocolate spheres with candy of your choice.
    Hand holding a glass bowl filled with colorful jelly beans.
  • Roll out two cylinders for arms. Detail fingers using a cake tool. Attach to body and add further detail with a cake tool.
    Hand adjusting fondant bunny arms near chocolate candy spheres.

Notes

• Use caution when working with the blow torch.

Products Used

• Satin Ice: Fondant
• Ghirardelli: White chocolate melting wafers
• Artisan Accents: Edible colors
• Chocolate Chameleon: Edible chocolate colors
• The Sugar Art: Edible powder colors (navy blue, black, white, and pink)