Bunnies, Bunnies -- They're Everywhere

Earlier this year, I was at Michaels for the millionth trip to the chain. I did go to the one near my new gig, so I think I was actually checking it out and comparing it to the rest. It was after the New Year, so there were quite a few marked down items. There was a calendar that caught my eye. It was a Betty Crocker cake calendar. Each month had a different cake, created from a Better Crocker mixed and matched to that respective month. The best part, the calendar only cost me a dollar. I grabbed one and thought this would be a fun thing to see on my cube wall every day.

Seeing as it's April, this month has a bunny cake made out of carrot cake mix with cream cheese frosting. It was topped off by coconut shavings and placed on a bed of that plastic green grass and jelly beans. I've been staring at it for less than a week. It's very cute. A couple of meeting noted how cute the cake was and asked if I was going to make it. Uhm, let's just say to get the bunny shape, it requires three cakes split in half and cut as a dented circle. If you thought my written directions are confusing, the diagram didn't make it all that easy either. Cut to the chase, I decided to be festive and make carrot cupcakes as bunny heads instead. I made my mental doodle, drafted a supply list, went shopping and journeyed home to make it reality.

It did turn out that Thursday was mostly re-run shows. I had plenty of time to work on the cupcakes. Well, once we were done having dinner and I was done with Shelby, the bunnies beckoned. J had a test one without the face; he said it tasted good. It is a Betty Crocker carrot cake mix plus Betty Crocker cream cheese frosting. Though the batter may be sticking to the cups, which confuses me a bit. Then again, I gave J the cupcake/muffin that stuck a bit too much to the paper. Hopefully that's the flaw and now the mix.

Happy Easter everyone if I don't see you or hear from you!