How to Make Bunny Tail Cake Balls

Learn How to Make Bunny Tail Cake Balls in this step-by-step picture tutorial. These Easter treats are super cute and fun and truly not hard to make! Not a cake decorator? You can still do this! I give tips throughout on how to do it without any special equipment or cake-decorating tools!!

Originally posted March 2013, updated February 2025

bunny tail cake balls

Bunny Tail Cake Balls

Easter is just around the corner, and now is the time to start thinking about your Easter dessert and I highly recommend Easter Cake Pops. 

For me, making these super cute Bunny Tail Cake Balls is a tradition. I also love making these Carrot Cake Pops! They are both lots of fun for Easter celebrations and kids go crazy for them!

I actually wanted to call them Bunny Bottom Cake balls, but by popular demand, it seemed “tails” was more popular! You could also call them adorable bunny tail cake truffles. I know my kids would love a project like this, and I figure other kids will, too! 

bunny tail cake balls

Why You’ll Love Bunny Tail Cake Balls

Bunny Tail Cake Balls are adorable, bite-sized treats that are perfect for any occasion, especially around Easter or springtime celebrations. Here are some reasons to love them:

Adorable. 🐰These cake balls are shaped and decorated to resemble fluffy bunny tails, making them irresistibly cute and a festive treat for Easter.

Deliciously Sweet & Moist 🍰. Made with crumbled cake and frosting, then coated in white chocolate and coconut, they are delicious!

Perfect for Easter & Spring Events 🌸. Whether it’s an Easter brunch, a baby shower, or a tea party, these adorable treats add a whimsical and delightful touch to any Spring or Easter gathering.

Easy to Make & Customize 🎨. They can be made with different flavors (chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, red velvet, or funfetti) and coated with coconut flakes, white chocolate, or even sprinkles.

Great for Gifting & Sharing 🎁. These are the cutest gourmet sweets, and they can be packed up in cute little boxes or cellophane bags, and they make wonderful homemade gifts for friends and family. They’d also be a perfect addition to your child’s Easter Basket!

Kid-Friendly & Fun to Make 👩‍🍳 Children love rolling the cake balls and decorating them, making it a fun baking activity for families.

Bite-Sized Treats 🍡. Unlike cupcakes or cake slices, these perfect bite-sized treats are easy to eat without utensils or mess.

Equipment and Supplies

Here’s an exhaustive list of everything you’ll need to make Easter Bunny Truffles!

Ingredients for the bunny tail cake balls

How to Make Easter Bunny Tail Cake Balls

To simplify things, I’ve broken this tutorial for making Bunny Tail Cake Pops into sections for each step of making the Easter Bunny Tail truffles.

Dip the Cake Balls

  1. Start by chilling your cake balls and melting your white chocolate. You don’t want the cake balls cold all the way through (that leads to cracking), but put them in the freezer for at least 5 mins or the frig for 10 mins or so.
  2. Not sure how to make cake balls? Check out my how to make cake pops tutorial here. Just don’t put them on sticks for the bunny bottoms! Need help melting the white chocolate? Check out this post. 
  3. Dip the cake balls in melted white chocolate, tap off any excess chocolate, and set them on a parchment-lined cookie sheet to harden. I like to do these with a fork… the bottoms don’t have to be pretty because they’ll be hidden later!
cake balls dipped in white chocolate

Bunny Tails

  1. To make the tiny tail, take a miniature marshmallow and dip it in halfway white chocolate.
  2. Dip the chocolate-coated side of the marshmallow in the white sprinkles.
  3. Place a dot of white chocolate near the top center of the cake ball (I used a boo-boo stick for that) and attach the bunny’s tail to the coated cake pop. You could also do this with a toothpick or a butter knife.
  4. Let the cute little “fluffy” cotton tail dry/harden for a few minutes.
marshmallow dipped in white chocolate
marshmallow covered in whit nonpariels
marshmallow covered in whit nonpariels
bunny tails on cake balls

Bunny Feet

  1. While the tails are setting on the cake balls, roll out small amounts of fondant (I used homemade marshmallow fondant) or modeling chocolate to about 1mm thickness and cut out tiny ovals – two for each cake ball!
  2. Attach the feet to the cake ball with a dot of white chocolate on either side of the Easter bunny cake pop tail.
  3. Pipe on the pads of the feet and tiny toes. You can buy tubes of pink icing already made at craft stores or at Walmart (like this Wilton decorating icing). Or mix some pink into canned frosting, put it in a Ziploc plastic bag, cut off a tiny corner and use it for piping if you don’t have a piping bag.
  4. If you’re using royal icing like me, let them dry for at least 30 minutes. If you’re using buttercream – you don’t have to be so careful!
cutting tiny ovals out of fondant
putting oval fondant feet on cake balls with melted chocolate
pink details piped on the bottom of the bunny feet on the cake balls
bunny tail cake balls with pink feet drying

Easter Grass

Now that the bunny feet and tails are attached – let’s make them some grass!

  1. Mix some coconut and a couple of drops of green food coloring in a small bowl to make “grass”. If you hate coconut – around Easter you can buy edible candy grass at Walmart, in grocery stores, or online at Amazon here.
  2. Paint some more melted chocolate on the bottom of each cake ball and dip the cake balls in the colored coconut flakes.
  3. Or you could skip that step and just place a bed of coconut in the bottom of your cupcake liner if you’d like to serve the little cuties individually in cups.
adding green gel coloring to shredded coconut in small bowl
adding green gel coloring to shredded coconut in small bowl
melted white chocolate on the bottom of cake ball
bunny tail cake ball in green coconut
green coconut in cupcake liner
bunny tail cake ball in cupcake liner with green coconut
bunny tail cake ball

Pro Tips

  • Sometimes, you can dip cake balls at room temperature (without chilling them), but that ultimately depends on your cake ball recipe and the density of your cake balls. If they’re too soft, chilling them will help them hold together while you dip them.
  • Don’t want to make cake pops? You can also use OREO cookies to make OREO Truffles or OREO Balls! They are just as easy to dip!
  • You can make Easter Bunny Cake Pops and put these on sticks with the cake pop on the bottom.
  • Is your white chocolate or melted candy melts clumpy? Check out this post for How to Thin Candy Melts (it works for white chocolate too!)
  • I mentioned this above, but I’ll say it again… You could make do without the small oval cutters – using small circle cutters or rolling out small balls and flattening them to a round or oval shape!
  • If you don’t have fondant or modeling chocolate, you could flatten some marshmallows and use those for feet. Just roll them out with a rolling pin until they’re flat and “glue” them on with melted chocolate.

Serving Suggestions

These Bunny Tail Cake Balls can be served with your Easter Spread, on a dessert tower for a eye-catching centerpiece on your Easter table, or as treats or favors for an Easter Party.

Drop tiny candy carrots in the “grass” if you serve them in cupcake liners for an added pop of color.

bunny tail cake balls in cupcake liners with green coconut

Storage Directions

The best way to store any leftover Bunny Butt Cake Pops is to place them in an airtight container and Keep them at room temperature in a cool, dry place (away from direct sunlight and heat) for 1-2 days.

If your Easter Cake Truffles have a perishable filling (e.g., cream cheese) or you want to keep them for more than a couple of days, you can refrigerate them for up to one week.

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92 Comments

    1. If using chocolate donut holes, no need to coat, Use softened tootsie roll to form feet and tail (dip in cocoa powder). fasten with drop of choc. iceing

  1. These are so cute! I think I’m going to try to make them full-sized. Thank you so much!! You are so creative!

  2. Could you use already made donut holes from Dunkin Donuts or boxed Entenmanns? Or would you suggest the boxed cake mix? These are so cute. Im gonna give them a try.

  3. I really want to make these but hate coconut, is there anything else you could think of that I might try? Thank you!! 🙂

  4. Hi Rose. Just been reading your blog. Also I saw these yesterday & took a photo so as I mite try these little cuties. Shame on the person who stole them to post as if they were their invention. Some people are just plain greedy & very out of order. It must of taken ages to remove your watermark they may aswell if used their time more wisely & created something of their own instead. So anyway. Thank you for the share. If I use them at all at Easter please can I have your permission to post on my (very) little cake page? And of course credit them to you the rightful owner of all my designs I’ve only borrowed one other design from someone not sure where the rest come from,somewhere in the back of my mind lol. I shall now be following your blog. Regards Jenny x

  5. I’m completely stealing these to make this Easter. I’m hoping there’s a snack contest again because I’m pretty sure these things would win for cutest! 😉 And, I’m sure they’d win for taste as well- but it helps that they’re ridiculously adorable. I’ll send them all your way if they want the recipe though. 🙂

  6. This is so cute! I love that you post pictures with the steps and your ingredients list helps out a lot! (The way you put a lot of substitutes) thank you!

  7. Thank you for being so creative so that I can try your ideas! LOL These are adorable! I can’t WAIT to try them! Thank you for sharing!!!

  8. Love it! So cute! I am going to make them in Easter party for kids in church.Can I used chocolate cake? Thanks!

  9. These have to be the cutes cakeballs I have seen so far!!! If you would like to share all this cuteness at another link party… I would love to have you come share at Share It One More Time at One More Time Evnetshttp://www.onemoretimeevents.com/2014/03/share-it-one-more-time-features-and_29.html Tammy

  10. Thank you so much for the inspiration, and as I never do anything small made a double batch and it was a work out. But in a good way. Sent a dozen with husband and am taking another 3 dozen plus for a church ladies meeting tonight. Took pictures and was very pleased. Not as nice as yours but a good runner up 🙂 have gotten so many re-pins on Pinterest. Thanks again. Sally

  11. These are just too cute to eat, you’re really creative! Thanks for sharing this at my Facebook Milestone Link Party :)! Btw this was the most popular Easter treat from all that were submitted at the party + most liked / shared on Facebook! So it will definitely be at the top of my list of featured recipes… I’ll post that soon on my blog 🙂

  12. How long can these be kept? I want to make them for Easter, but would like to make them earlier in the week.

      1. Thank you Rose. They will last until Easter at my house, no children live here and I will be hiding them from my husband until Sunday.

  13. I made these cute little snacks and took them to school for the kinder/1st graders. They were a hit!!! I had so much fun making them and they turned out so darn cute. Thanks for posting this with pics! Oh, yeah, I also posted pics on my Facebook page and gave credit for the idea and recipe to you. I love your stuff. Keep creating!!

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  15. These are absolutely adorable! I wanted to make them for this upcoming Easter for some friends, and was curious as to how I could package them? I’m used to making cake pops on sticks and not cake balls, so my go-to is usually the small plastic bags and twist ties for cake pops. Please let me know if you have any suggestions 🙂

  16. Rose, these are WONDERFUL! I made them today and included them in an Easter basket that also included cake ball eggs and cake pop tulips. Will post a picture of the basket on my website after the customer picks up tomorrow. Thanks for the awesome tutorial!

    A few slight modifications I made… since I don’t have an oval cutter the right size for the feet, I used a small rose leaf cutter, then used my smallest oval cutter to cut the tip off. I like the way the serrated edge looked like fur! Also, I used melted chocolate for the pawprints. LOVE LOVE LOVE these!!

  17. Thank you for the great tutorial! I made these for easter and they were so cute. I would be happy to share a photo with you if you would like to see them!

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  20. These are way beyond cute…was looking for something to do and these are on my list…thanks for sharing! <3

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  24. Hello, My name is Tracey. I’d like to know if after making these, do I need to keep them in the fridge. Because I’ll be taking them to a Easter party the next morning. Or will they be ok sitting on the dining room table until the next morning?

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