Chocolate Mousse Bunny Cake
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder, or as needed
- 1 (15.25 ounce) package devil's food cake mix
- 1 cups water
- 3 large eggs
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened baking chocolate, chopped
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (3.9 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix
- ¼ cup cold water
- 1 cup heavy cream, chilled
- 1 (1.5 ounce) bar chocolate, grated
- 3 small jelly beans
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Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch round cake pan; dust with cocoa powder.
- Combine cake mix, 1 cup water, eggs, and oil in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until batter is smooth, about 2 minutes. Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cake springs back when lightly touched, and a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes.
- Meanwhile, chill a stainless steel bowl and beaters in the refrigerator, at least 20 minutes.
- Cool cake in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes; remove cake from pan to finish cooling completely.
- Place baking chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high power until chocolate is slightly warm, about 1 minute. Continue to microwave in 20-second intervals, stirring after each interval, until chocolate melted.
- Stir melted chocolate and condensed milk together in a large bowl until well combined; whisk in pudding mix and ¼ cup water until thick and smooth, about 1 minute. Cover the bowl; refrigerate, at least 30 minutes.
- Whip cream in the chilled bowl with an electric mixer using the chilled beaters until stiff peaks form, about 2 minutes.
- Stir chilled pudding mixture until smooth; gently fold in whipped cream for chocolate frosting.
- Cut cake into 2 equal halves; stack, cut-sides down, on a platter. Glue halves together with a thin coating of frosting if needed.
- Cut a small wedge from top of cake, about ⅓ of the way up, to form a head. Attach wedge to bottom of cake (opposite the head) using toothpicks to make a tail.
- Generously frost cake; sprinkle with grated chocolate for fur.
- Place jelly beans on front of head to make eyes and nose. Cut 2 large ears from construction paper; insert into top of head.
- Refrigerate cake until ready to serve.
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