Bunny Butt Cookies: Adorable cake mix cookies, decorated to look like bunny butts with mini marshmallows as the bunny tail and large marshmallows to look like bunny paws. These adorable Easter cookies are easy to make with ingredients you can get from the grocery store.
These Easter bunny butt cookies are just one of the cutest treats that we have here for Easter ideas. So if you’re looking for more treats like this Bunny Bait, these Easter Oreo cookies, and these Easter Egg Truffles to add to your charcuterie board for Easter, you’re in the right place!
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Why This Recipe Works
- Cake Mix Cookies: If you love a good cookie recipe that uses a cake mix to make things easier, these cute bunny butt cookies are made with a white cake mix or a vanilla cake mix! (Like these funfetti cookies and these strawberry shortcake cookies!)
- Gift Giving: These are so fun for gift-giving for Easter! Package them up in cute cookie boxes, wrap the boxes with pastel ribbon, and you’re set!
- An Easy Easter Cookie: Sometimes it’s fun to make something cute for the holidays, especially when they’re easy recipes! These easy bunny cookies start off easy with the cake mix and finish easily with simple decorations, that are perfect to make on a crafty morning!
Ingredients Needed
I’ve highlighted a couple of ingredients with some relevant notes. Aside from this, the ingredients needed are pretty basic.
- Butter – we used unsalted butter for this cookie recipe.
- Milk – we prefer using whole milk when baking our recipes but if you have 2% or skim, that should be just fine too.
- Cake Mix – it’s best to use a white cake mix or vanilla cake mix, so you get the whiter color with the cookies.
Substitutions
Sometimes it’s necessary to substitute ingredients that you can’t find or that you can’t use in a recipe. Here are some suggestions that may help:
- Cookies – If you don’t want to use a cake mix to make the cookie base, you can use this sugar cookie recipe and use a large circle cookie cutter, or store-bought sugar cookie dough to make bunny butt sugar cookies. However, you want the cookies to be around 3 inches in diameter, and make sure they’re circle-shaped sugar cookies.
- Coconut – If you don’t want to use coconut, simply leave it off or use white sprinkles or sanding sugar instead.
- Candy Melts – Although we haven’t tried using jelly beans for this particular recipe, you can try using jelly beans for the pads on the feet, like we used in our bunny-in-the-hole donuts! Or, you may try using pink icing or adding pink food color to royal icing or the frosting, to pipe on the pads of the feet.
How to Make Bunny Butt Cookies
These adorable bunny butt cookies are easy to make with just a few steps!
These cookies are broken into 3 components:
- making the cake mix cookies
- making the frosting
- decorating the cookies
*Be sure to see the recipe card below for the full ingredients list & instructions!*
STEP 1. Preheat. Heat the oven to 350 degrees F., line two cookie sheets with parchment paper, and set them aside.
STEP 2. Make cookie dough. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, add the eggs, cake mix, and oil (Image 1). Then, mix it all together until combined (Image 2). You can use a hand mixer, standing mixer or even mix by hand.
STEP 3. Scoop cookie dough. Drop the cookie dough onto the parchment-lined cookie sheets using a medium scoop, making sure to leave at least 2 inches between the cookie dough scoops (Image 3).
STEP 4. Bake. Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes or until the edges start to turn a golden brown.
STEP 5. Cool Cookies. Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheets for 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to finish cooling (Image 4).
How to Make the Frosting
STEP 6. Beat butter. In a medium bowl, beat the butter with a hand mixer or stand mixer until it’s light and fluffy (Image 5).
STEP 7. Make the fluffy frosting. Add the powdered sugar, vanilla, salt, and 1 tablespoon of milk to the whipped butter, and beat until well combined. Then, add more milk, about ½ tablespoon at a time, until the frosting reaches a consistency where it can easily be spread, but the white frosting still holds its shape (Image 6).
Assembly of Bunny Butt Cookies
Now it’s time for the fun part! It’s time to decorate the top of the cookies.
STEP 8. Reserve some frosting. Set aside 2-3 tablespoons of the frosting. This will be used to stick the feet and tail to the cookies after they have been dipped in the coconut.
STEP 9. Prep the marshmallow feet. Cut the large marshmallows in half, crosswise, to create the bunny feet, and then set them aside.
Tip: This is a great time to pour coconut in to a shallow dish, that will be big enough for dipping each cookie in, in step 11 below.
STEP 10. Frost cookies. When the cookies have completely cooled, frost them with a layer of frosting (Image 7).
STEP 11. Dip in coconut. Dip the frosted side of the cookies in the coconut to create the bunny fur (Image 8).
STEP 12. Secure the tail. Spread a small of frosting on the bottom of the mini marshmallow, and stick it into the center of each cookie to create the tail. Repeat with the rest of the cookies (Image 9).
STEP 13. Place bunny feet. Place a small amount of frosting on the cut side of the larger marshmallows and stick them side by side on the bottom of the cookie to create the feet (Image 10).
STEP 14. Finish the feet with candy melts. Melt the candy melts according to the package directions and pour in to a small piping bag. Pipe an oval shape in the middle of the marshmallow feet to create the pad of the feet. Pipe three small dots below each oval to create the toes (Image above).
Allow the frosting to set before serving the cookies.
Recipe Pro Tips
- Frosting the cookies. The easiest way to frost the cookies is with a small offset spatula or butter knife (a knife with no serrations).
- No piping bag? No problem. If you do not have a piping bag available, you can use a sandwich-size Ziploc bag with a small cut in the corner.
Recipe FAQs
If you have leftover bunny butt cookies, store them in a single layer in an airtight container at room temperature for up to three days.
You can make these a couple of days in advance if you have to but they’ll be fresher if you make them the day of or just the day before.
More Easter Recipes You’ll Love
If you love making Easter treats and easy desserts, here are some other Easter ideas for you:
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Recipe
Bunny Butt Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 15.25 ounce box vanilla or white cake mix
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup vegetable oil
Frosting
- ¾ cup unsalted butter room temperature – 1 ½ sticks
- 2 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 pinch salt
- 2-4 Tablespoons milk
Decorations
- ⅔ cups shredded sweetened coconut
- 16 regular marshmallows for feet
- 16 mini marshmallows for tails
- ¼ cup light pink candy melts
Instructions
Bake the Cookies
- Preheat. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F., line two cookie sheets with parchment paper, and set them aside.
- Make cookie dough. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, add the eggs, cake mix, and oil. Then, mix it all together until combined.
- Scoop cookie dough. Drop the cookie dough onto the parchment-lined cookie sheets using a medium scoop, making sure to leave at least 2 inches between the cookie dough scoops.
- Bake. Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes or until the edges start to turn a golden brown.
- Cool Cookies. Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie sheets for 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to finish cooling.
How to Make the Frosting
- Beat butter. In a medium bowl, beat the butter with a hand mixer or stand mixer until it's light and fluffy.
- Make the fluffy frosting. Add the powdered sugar, vanilla, salt, and 1 tablespoon of milk to the whipped butter, and beat until well combined. Then, add more milk, about ½ tablespoon at a time, until the frosting reaches a consistency where it can easily be spread, but still holds its shape.
Assembly of the Bunny Butt Cookies
- Reserve some frosting. Set aside 2-3 tablespoons of the frosting. This will be used to stick the feet and tail to the cookies after they have been dipped in the coconut.
- Prep the marshmallow feet. Cut the large marshmallows in half, crosswise, to create the bunny feet, and then set them aside.
- Frost cookies. When the cookies have completely cooled, frost them with a layer of frosting.
- Dip in coconut. Dip the frosted side of the cookies in the coconut to create the bunny fur.
- Secure the tail. Spread a small of frosting on the bottom of the mini marshmallow, and stick it into the center of a coconut-covered cookie to create the tail. Repeat with the rest of the cookies.
- Secure the feet. Place a small amount of frosting on the cut side of the larger marshmallows and stick them side by side on the bottom of the cookie to create the feet.
- Finish the feet with candy melts. Melt the candy melts according to the package directions and pour in to a small piping bag. Pipe an oval shape in the middle of the marshmallow feet to create the pad of the feet. Pipe three small dots below each oval to create the toes.Allow the frosting to set before serving the cookies.
Notes
- When frosting the cookies, the easiest way to frost the cookies is with a small offset spatula or butter knife (a knife with no serrations).
- No piping bag is required! If you do not have a piping bag available, you can use a sandwich-size Ziploc bag with a small cut in the corner.
Nutrition
Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary with brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes and more.
Jamie says
These turned out so cute! The kids loved them!!
Kristyn says
Cutest cookies ever!! And, so good!! The frosting is delicious, the cookies are soft, & they are just so fun & festive!
Andie says
These cookies are so cute and so delicious! Made them with my kids and they had a blast!