Gloverly Cupcakes

After I made a dinosaur cake for David’s son’s birthday, he asked me if I could make an Easter cake. As soon as he said he wanted a silly (rather than serious) cake, I came up with an idea… I loved the style of the drunk robin cake I made at Christmas and decided to make it Easter themed – so instead of drunk robins on a tree trunk, I wanted to make bunnies who’d eaten too many carrots on a raised vegetable bed. The problem is, now I’ve made it, I want to keep it!

I initially thought of making one large cake, covering the sides to make it look like a wooden planter, and then decorating it with a couple of bunnies. But after David asked if he could have more than one flavour of cake again, I decided that making 2 or 3 smaller “vegetable patches” would look better. I made each cake 2 layers, and they were all 6″ x 4″ cakes. There’s a victoria sponge cake, a chocolate cake (cut into 4 layers) filled with Nutella and Nutella buttercream, and finally caramel cake filled with caramel creamcheese buttercream.

I covered each cake with a thin layer of buttercream and then stuck strips of brown fondant icing to the sides to look like wooded slats. I stuck strips to the corners too to make “posts”. The planters were then topped with soil… crushed Oreos. I used the left over caramel buttercream to make a “patio” – I spread it over the board and then stuck upside down Nice biscuits.

The rest of the decorations were all made with coloured icing. I could have carried on making the bunnies all day but realised I had to make the actual cake at some point. Here’s a selection of close ups of the bunnies….