Golden Honey Bunny 1st Birthday Cake
This precious little cake is pure, sweet, all-natural, and innocent--just like your baby. It is also easy to make for a mom who is likely still exhausted.
Ingredients
Trader Joe's All Natural Vanilla Cake & Baking Mix
(Uses butter, milk, and eggs)
Cream cheese icing (see recipe here)
Equipment
(8-inch round)
1 pale green candle
The Bunny That Couldn't Hop-- adorable children's book for gift or party favors.
Fit one bake-even strip around the small 6 inch round cake pan. Soak the bake-even strip in a bowl of cold water. Prepare the cake mix according to the instructions. Spray 6-inch cake pan with Baker's Joy until completely covered on the inside. Put 2 cups of cake batter into the pan. Slip the soaking wet bake-even strip around the pan. Bake at 350 until a toothpick comes out clean. I can't remember exactly how long it will take but check it after 25 minutes. Use the rest of the batter to make cupcakes.
When cake is done, cool for about 20 minutes in the pan. Then, gently remove the cake from the pan and let cool completely on a Cooling Rack
(or clean towel if you don't have a cooling rack).
When the cake is cool, place it in the center of the bunny plate. Ice with cream cheese icing. Place the bunny cookies around the cake (being careful to only select good bunnies whose ears have not broken off). Set one bunny on top near the candle. Store the cake in a cake-covering box in the fridge until the party (I like the Wilton Cake Caddy
). Ice the cupcakes and put one bunny on top of each. A similar cake can also be made with Teddy Grahams or Animal Cookies.
I was inspired to make this cake when my son Michael turned one. I had always called him my "Golden Honey Bunny".
If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me. phd.annie at gmail.com
--Annie Pryor