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I have baked a lot, but usually it’s pretty hard to make something really cute, let alone anything fancy. This year was different, I’ve been learning a lot about baking techniques so I wanted to make a 3D cake. Everything I found was for making big cakes (2-4 cake mix boxes) and I don’t know anyone who really wants/needs to eat that much cake. So I was armed with just the basic understanding of piecing together these kind of cakes and half an idea of how to do it on a much smaller scale with cupcakes.

The baking was easy enough, following the directions on the cake box I made 24 cupcakes and had enough batter leftover to make a small loaf of cake about 1 in x 3 in. Cupcakes was a wonderful idea because they’re small so if I mess up I have a lot to work with, and those suckers were room temperature in like 10 mins. I usually don’t have the patience to let my cakes cool enough before trying to get creative.

My first attempt is the flat bunny to the left, which is really just a cupcake made with cupcake parts put together, not really anything cake about it. The next attempt is the bunny in the middle (not a mouse, a bunny ^_^) That one is 2 cupcakes for the legs, 1 for the body and little pieces for the ears. Everything is held together with frosting and toothpicks, and can stand up on its own. The last thing in the picture is just a cupcake easter basket.

This guy is my pride and joy, it’s a loop eared rabbit, the kind with massive floppy ears. Each ear is half a cupcake, the body is the small bread loaf, and both back legs are about 2/3 of a cupcake each. The tail is a marshmallow, in both pictures the candies are jelly beans and the garnish is green dyed coconut. This one I could see on the shelf of a bakery.

One of the great things about getting into how to make special food is being able to put together this kind of stuff. And my masterful training came from watching Food Network!