Name: Bunny Cupcakes with a Surprise Inside Recipe
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: 24 vanilla cupcakes ((homemade or semi-homemade)); 24 ounces fluffy white frosting; 24 candy eyeballs; 24 small pink candies; 1 10 ounce bag Chocolate candy eggs (or other Easter candy); 24 regular size marshmallows; pink sprinkles

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Bunny Cupcakes with a Surprise Inside is what you need to make this Easter! Adorable, easy, and fun, and the perfect Easter dessert idea for any spring party or gathering. Plus, there’s a yummy surprise waiting inside!

You’ll also want to make No-Bake Easter Birds Nest Cookies and Bunny Oreo Cookie Pops!

Bunny cupcake in a pink wrapper and Butterfinger candies next to it.

Hippity Hop! Easter is on its way! Our family absolutely loves cute Easter treats!

Not only do they love helping make them, but they also love eating them!! In years past, we’ve made Easter Bark and Bunny Chow.

This year, the treat-making includes these eggcellent Surprise Inside Bunny Cupcakes!

Cute Bunny cupcakes opened up so you can see the surprise inside.

Yep, you heard right.

There’s an extra special surprise inside made out of – you guessed it – BUTTERFINGER®. They’re sooo good and bite-sized!

You can use any delicious Easter candy to stuff your cupcakes, though. Think M&Ms or jelly beans.

Related: Easter Basket Ideas for Kids

A bunny cupcakes next to a Butterfinger NestEgg package.

Table of Contents

Bunny Cupcake Making Supplies

Cupcakes – we like vanilla for this recipe
White Frosting – extra fully work best
Chocolate candy eggs – or any Easter candy
Pink candy for noses – small in size
Candy eyeballs – sold at most grocery and big box stores in the baking section
Marshmallows – regular size
Pink Sprinkles – or any easter-themed sprinkles

How To Make Bunny Cupcakes

Top view of bunny cupcake making supplies - cupcakes, marshmallows, candy, candy eyeballs, and Butterfinger NestEggs.

No matter how you get there, you need a batch of cupcakes. Baked from scratch or a box, either one will do.

Once your cupcakes are cooled, it’s time to hollow out the center for the ‘surprise. We did this with a melon baller, but a spoon will also work..’

Vanilla Cupcake with the centered hollowed out.

Now, place a chocolate candy egg inside. We fin one to one, and a half Eggs fit nicely. We also like to add a few sprinkles, so it’s a delightful surprise because that’s how we roll, but that’s optional.

Vanilla cupcakes hollowed out with a Butterfinger NestEgg and sprinkles inside.

Now, it’s time to frost.

Again, store-bought or homemade frosting works well, but make sure it’s white and fluffy, so your bunnies look like bunnies! And to have room for the bunny face, make sure you pile it nice and high.

Ok, you’re ready for the super cute ears. Click here to see how to make the perfect marshmallow bunny ears. You’ll need two ears for each cupcake, so if you bake a batch of 24 cupcakes, that’s 48 ears!

By the way, kids are great at ear-making.

Vanilla Cupcakes with marshmallow ears on top to form Bunny Cupcakes.

Finally, once the ears are placed on top of the frosting, you need a rosy nose and some eyes.

Any smallish pink candy will do for the nose. And candy eyes are easy to find at most stores nowadays.

Bunnyrific!

Bunny Cupcakes with pink cupcakes liners and Butterfinger NestEgg candy next to them.

And when you serve these Easter cupcakes, everyone will marvel at their cuteness and be delighted with the surprise they find inside!

A bunny cupcake opened up to see the surprise inside.

Tips for Making Bunny Cupcakes

While your cupcakes bake, that’s a perfect time to make your bunny ears and unwrap your chocolate candy eggs. Go ahead and sample a few chocolates at this point!
Unless eating them right away, keep your cute bunny cupcakes refrigerated until ready to serve.