BUNNY BUTT CUPCAKES (LOW-SUGAR )

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In the event you’re on the lookout for a enjoyable and eccentric deal with to make this Easter or in celebration of spring, then these Low Sugar Bunny Butt Cupcakes are excellent! On this submit, we’re displaying you ways we constructed these lovely bunny butt cupcakes so you may recreate them in your individual kitchen. Plus, you don’t should really feel responsible consuming these cupcakes as a result of they’re made with out all the additional sugar present in typical cupcake recipes!

To maintain these cupcakes low in sugar (and decrease in energy) we used the granulated model of SPLENDA® No Calorie Sweetener, which is a splendidly candy but sugar-free substitute made particularly for baking. Granulated SPLENDA not solely tastes identical to sugar however measures cup for cup like actual sugar. It may be used nearly wherever sugar is used and stays candy at excessive temperatures, so it’s nice for decreasing the calorie and carbohydrate rely in all of your favourite candy recipes.

 💡 Wholesome Tip: Utilizing SPLENDA granulated as an alternative of actual sugar can prevent 678 energy per cup in your recipes. That’s a number of energy!

These are the 4 completely different parts you’ll have to make these Low-Sugar Bunny Butt Cupcakes:

1. The Cupcakes 
2. The No-Sugar Sugar Cookie Bunny Toes 
3. The Bunny Tails (mini-marshmallows, white sprinkles)
4. Buttercream Icing For The Grass & Bunny Physique (white & inexperienced)

Time Wanted To Make These Cupcakes:

Plan for about 4 hours of whole working time together with baking, cooling and adorning. The cookie bunny, bunny tails, and adorning icing might be made the night time earlier than. 

STEP 1: MAKING THE BUNNY FEET COOKIE PIECES

1. To make the bunny ft for these cupcakes we began by baking up this No-Sugar Sugar Cookies Recipe. Roll out the dough to about ⅛ inch thick then use a small oval-shaped cookie cutter (1-1/4 inch) to chop out the ft. 

2. Bake for about 10 – 12 minutes ensuring they keep blonde. We don’t need any browning that will present via after dipping them within the white chocolate. Permit them to chill utterly.

3. Then dip the bunny ft in melted white chocolate thinned with a bit coconut oil. Soften the white chocolate within the microwave at 30-second intervals stirring properly in-between. It might simply burn and melts shortly. When dipping it’s extra essential to offer the highest sides of the bunny ft that’s going to be displaying a easy end. Don’t fear in regards to the backs as they received’t be seen. You need to use a chocolate dipping device or perhaps a fork after which switch the white chocolate dipped ft to a baking tray lined with wax or parchment paper. Permit the chocolate to harden earlier than including the pink bunny ft particulars. For 18 cupcakes you’ll want 36 bunny ft whole.

4. For the bunny ft particulars, soften a bit extra white chocolate after which add a number of drops of pink meals coloring. Stir till you don’t see any streaks of white chocolate left. Place in a small squeeze bottle or a piping bag with a small spherical tip. Pipe 3 or 4 dots for bunny toes (they’ve 4 in actual life however are sometimes depicted with three) and a coronary heart for the primary pad. Put aside and permit to completely dry earlier than assembling the cupcakes.

 💡 Chocolate Tip: An alternative choice to utilizing white chocolate is sweet melts. You may get them organized on-line from locations like Amazon or Michael’s. They arrive in many various colours so be at liberty to get inventive along with your bunny ft design. For brown bunnies use milk or darkish chocolate as an alternative.

STEP 2: MAKE THE BUNNY TAILS

To make the bunny tails we lower mini marshmallows in half. Then utilizing a toothpick dipped them in heat water and right into a small bowl of white nonpareil sprinkles. Lay them on wax or parchment paper to dry. 

Tip: Alternatively, you can too dip the marshmallow “tails” into melted white chocolate and coat them in shredded coconut for a furry look. 

STEP 3: NOW BAKE UP THE LOW-SUGAR CUPCAKES

To maintain our cupcakes low in sugar we used this  Golden Yellow Cupcake recipe made with SPLENDA. They’re tremendous yummy and also you positively received’t miss all of the sugar. Allow them to cool utterly earlier than adorning with icing.

STEP 4: ADDING THE GRASS AND THE BUNNY BUTT

In the event you want a sugar-free icing recipe you may search SPLENDA recipes linked right here. We used a white buttercream icing, however you can too make a brown bunny model with chocolate icing and milk paired with darkish or milk chocolate-dipped bunny ft.

PIPING THE GREEN ICING: Spoon half your favourite buttercream icing recipe tinted half with a number of drops of inexperienced meals coloring right into a piping bag fitted with a grass cake adorning tip (use Wilton #233, #234 or #29).  Proceed piping the grass across the fringe of the cupcake leaving the center third space empty. That is the place the bunny’s physique will sit.

In the event you haven’t tried the grass tip earlier than, it’s plenty of enjoyable however might require you to follow a number of strokes. As you’re making use of stress to launch the icing on the cupcake, pipe about ¼ inch after which launch the stress simply earlier than you’re about to tug away.  Holding the piping bag straight up offers you neat grass whereas tilting the bag can provide the look of longer shaggier grass. Each appears are lovely!

 💡 Sprinkle Tip: If you need the look of tiny little flowers within the icing grass such as you usually see initially of spring, sprinkle a number of colourful sprinkles simply after piping the grass.

PIPING THE BUNNY BUTT: Utilizing white icing pipe positioned in a piping bag, pipe in a spherical space for the physique. You don’t want a tip for this and might merely snip off the underside of a piping bag about ½ inch huge. In the event you really feel extra comfy utilizing a adorning tip, then a large spherical tip is what you want.

COMPLETING THE BUNNY BUTT CUPCAKES

To complete the “bunny butts” on the cupcakes add two cookie ft (bear in mind they need to be the wrong way up) gently urgent into the icing to safe them. To finish the cupcakes high them with a marshmallow bunny tail for the last word in cupcake cuteness!

GET THE RECIPES WE USED!

Decrease Sugar Yellow Cupcakes

Splenda

Attempt these cupcakes subsequent time you need a decrease sugar model. Excellent for adorning we used these to make our Bunny Butt Cupcakes.