Easter Memories...

Some of my fondest memories revolve around spending Easter Sunday at 407 West 7th Street, Smackover, Arkansas... yes, I said Smackover ( It's real and it's fantastic... and historical but I will get to that later). My grandparents were not perfect, but to me, they were total love. I never ever questioned Jewell and Nila Kinder's love for me or my sister. And Easter was pretty darn special to us... outside of the meal, there was always a bunny cake.

Now I have seen some bunny cakes on Pinterest, but none are the one that my Nana would always roll out on Easter. It's pretty simple, and somewhere I have a picture of one of them that I will post later, but for now I found a image that shows the basic design. This one is like my Nana's with using M&Ms.

Here's what you need:
1 white cake mix to make two 8 inch round cakes
2 cans of white/ vanilla frosting (or make your own)
 M&Ms- spring colors work well
 shredded coconut if you'd like

1. Bake cakes according to directions and allow to cool.
 2. Take one cake and cut the bow tie and ears from this by cutting an ear shape off the sides of the cake. Those two cut automatically make the bow tie piece of the cake. Check out the image below:

3. Arrange the pieces with the whole cake in the shape of a bunny head.

4. Now FROST it... I use the same color frosting as the cake simply because it's somewhat hard to cleaning frost the cut cake pieces! Used to drive me nuts as a kid.

 Use the M&Ms to decorate the bunny's ears, eyes, mouth, and bow tie. You could do the bow tie in a different colored frosting.

This cake makes me smile and tear up to be honest. It's will be 20 years since I lost her from my life... not a day goes by that I don't look at her picture and wish she were here. It's baking or cooking the way she did that keeps her alive in my heart everyday!