Home-style Bunny Butt Cheeseball

A Bunny Butt Cheeseball That is both whimsical and satisfying! This bunny butt cheese ball recipe is a playful centerpiece for your spring or Easter spread. Made with cream cheese, colorful sprinkles, and coated in a fluffy layer of shredded coconut.

Bunny Butt Cheeseball

This Easter dessert is as tasty as it is adorable! Serve with cookies, graham crackers, or fresh fruit for a fun appetizer that will delight guests of all ages!

Ingredients:

• Cream cheese – Make sure that the cream cheese is soft so it’s easier to mix into the cheese ball.
• White chocolate chips – These are optional but they add a great texture.
• Multicolored sprinkles (Jimmy’s): For this recipe, you’ll want to use Jimmy-type sprinkles rather than crisp nonpareils.
• Yellow cake mix – If you don’t want to use yellow cake mix, you could substitute it with vanilla cake mix, strawberry cake mix, Funfetti cake mix, or white cake mix. Make sure that it’s a 15.25-ounce box.
• Almond extract – Feel free to substitute with vanilla extract.
• Sweetened coconut flakes – This creates texture and makes it look like fuzzy bunny fur.
• Pink Skittles – You could also use pink or red M&M’s.
• Sweet dipping treats – You can use anything you think will be a good dipper. Some of our favorites are Graham crackers, shortbread cookies, and fresh fruit.

Directions:

Mix your cheeseballs. In a large mixing bowl, stir the cream cheese, white chocolate chips, sprinkles, cake mix, and almond extract and mix with a hand or stand mixer until all ingredients are well combined. The cheese ball mixture will be stiff and doughy.

Roll into balls. Separate into one large ball, two medium-sized balls, and one small ball.

Chill. Flatten the 2 medium-sized balls just slightly and shape them into teardrops. Wrap each part in its own plastic wrap and place them in your refrigerator for at least 1 hour (up to overnight) or until firm.

Roll in coconut. Unwrap and roll each ball in coconut, packing the coconut tightly around the cheese to ensure it is completely covered.

Assemble. Assemble your bunny butt by using the two medium size teardrops for bunny paws and the small ball for a tail. Scrape the coconut away from the cheese in the spots where you plan to put your bunny feet and tail, then press them into each other so that they stick.

Decorate. Use your pink Skittles to create toes by scraping away a small amount of coconut on the feet and pressing them into the cheese to make 3 toes and a heel. Don’t forget to press the “s” side into the feet so you don’t see the letter. Serve chilled.

Dipping Options

1. Graham crackers
2. Vanilla wafers
3. Teddy Grahams
4. Apple slices
5. Strawberries
6. Pretzels
7. Shortbread cookies
8. Waffle cookies
9. Golden Oreos
10. Biscoff cookies

Prep 10 minutesTotal 1 hour 10 minutesMakes 8

Ingredients

• 16 oz cream cheese softened
• 2/3 cup white chocolate chips
• 1/3 cup multicolor sprinkles
• 1 15.25 ounce package yellow cake mix
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 14 ounce bag sweetened coconut flakes
• 8 pink Skittles

Method

1. Mix your cheeseballs. To a large mixing bowl, add the cream cheese, white chocolate chips, sprinkles, cake mix, and almond extract and mix with a hand or stand mixer until all ingredients are well combined. It will be stiff and doughy.
2. Roll into balls. Separate into one large ball, two medium-size balls, and one small ball.
3. Chill. Flatten the 2 medium-sized balls just slightly and shape them into teardrops. Wrap each part in its own plastic wrap and place them in your refrigerator for at least 1 hour (or up to overnight) or until firm.
4. Roll in coconut. Unwrap and roll each ball in coconut, packing the coconut tightly to the cheese to make sure each ball is completely covered.
5. Assemble. Assemble your bunny butt by using the two medium size teardrops for feet and the small ball for a tail. Scrape the coconut away from the cheese in the spots where you plan to put your bunny feet and tail then press them into each other so that they stick.
6. Decorate. Use your pink Skittles to create toes by scraping away a small amount of coconut on the feet and pressing them into the cheese to make 3 toes and a heel. Don’t forget to press the “s” side into the feet so you don’t see the letter.
7. Serve chilled with sweet treats like graham crackers, nilla wafers, teddy grahams, fresh fruit, shortbread cookies, waffle cookies, or biscoff cookies.

Notes

• extra coconut: Add ¼ cup coconut to the mixture as well as on the outside.
• powdered sugar: Add ¼ cup powdered sugar to the mix for a sweeter flavor