- 1/2 cup [115 g] shortening
- 1 1/2 cups [300 g] sugar
- 1 teaspoon [5 mL] vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/4 cups [315 g] sifted cake and pastry flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons [12.5 mL] baking powder
- 1 teaspoon [5 mL] salt
- 1 cup + 2 tablespoons [280 mL] milk
Vanilla Frosting
- 1/4 cup [60 g] shortening
- 2 teaspoons [10 mL] vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon [2.5 mL] salt
- 1/3 cup [80 mL] milk
- Approximately 3 cups [750 mL] icing sugar
Decorations
- Tiny Easter colored flat round candy coated chocolates [approximately 2 small boxes]
- 1 cherry or any other chocolate
- Thin black licorice laces
- 1 thin red licorice lace
- Cake decorating silver balls
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- Preheat oven to 375°F [190°C].
- Grease and flour 2 round 9-inch [23-cm] cake pans; set aside.
- Beat together shortening and sugar until light, for 12 to 15 minutes, at medium-high speed of an electric mixer.
- Add vanilla then eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
- Mix dry ingredients into creamy mixture altenately with milk, beating well after each addition.
- Using a spoon, evenly spread dough into prepared pans.
- Bake cakes into preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
- Remove done cake from oven and transfer pans onto wire racks; leave cakes to cool for 10 minutes.
- Unmold cake onto wire racks to cool completely.
- Then, beat together all vanilla frosting ingredients mixing in just enough icing sugar to get an easy to spread frosting.
- Cut each side of one of the cakes shaping bunny's ears leaving a bow tie in the middle of the cake.
- Transfer 'bow tie' at the bottom of a large, [12 x 24-inch / 30 x 60-cm] tray, or a strong cardboard covered with al foil.
- Transfer round cake [bunny's head] just over bow tie, and sides of cake, the two ears, on top of the head.
- Frost top and sides of bunny's head, ears and bow tie, with vanilla frosting.
- Arrange 2 pink tiny Easter colored flat round candy coated chocolates for the eyes, the cherry or other chocolate for the nose the use thin black licorice laces for the eyebrows, thin red licorice lace for the mouth and more black licorice laces for the whiskers.
- Then decorate the ears leaving a free white space in the middle of each ear and all of the bow tie with tiny Easter colored flat round candy coated chocolates.
- Decorate middle of ears with cake decorating silver balls.
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