{"id":59761,"date":"2026-02-22T22:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/bunny-bread"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:35:19","slug":"bunny-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/easter\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/bunny-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunny Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>2 pk Yeast, quick rise<br \/>\n1\/2 c Sugar<br \/>\n1 1\/2 ts Salt<br \/>\n4 1\/2 c Flour, divided<br \/>\n6 tb Margarine<br \/>\n1 c water<br \/>\n2 Eggs, lg, reserve 1 egg white<br \/>\n8 Hershey Kisses, milk chocolate<br \/>\n1 tb Sugar, confectioners<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In bowl, combine yeast, sugar, salt, and 1 cup flour.<br \/>\nIn saucepan over medium heat, heat margarine and water until very warm<br \/>\n(125 degrees).<br \/>\nWith mixer at low speed, beat liquid into dry ingredients. At medium speed,<br \/>\nbeat 2 minutes. Reserve 1 egg white; beat in egg and egg yolk with 1 cup<br \/>\nflour; beat 2 minutes. Stir in 2 1\/4 cups flour.<br \/>\nTurn dough onto floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 5<br \/>\nminutes, working in about 1\/4 cup flour while kneading. Shape dough into<br \/>\nball; cover and let rest 15 minutes.<br \/>\nPreheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease 2 cookie sheets.<br \/>\nCut dough into eighths.<br \/>\nFor 1 bunny; cut 1 piece dough in half; shape half into ball, with a kiss in<br \/>\ncenter, for body. Place on cookie sheet.<br \/>\nCut other half in half; shape half into ball; brush with egg white; place next<br \/>\nto large ball, tucking slightly under it for head.<br \/>\nFrom remaining half, pinch off 3\/4-inch piece for tail and shape 2 ears. Brush<br \/>\ntail and ears with egg white; tuck slightly under bunny. Brush body with egg<br \/>\nwhite. Make 3 more bunnies.<br \/>\nBake 15 minutes or until browned. Cool on rack. Repeat to make 4 more.<br \/>\nMix confectioners&#8217; sugar with about 1\/4 teaspoon water and a hint of red<br \/>\nfood coloring (for pink); use to draw face on bunnies<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;&quot;Now suppose one of you fathers is asked by his son for a fish; he will not give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?&quot; (Luk 11:11)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easter<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/easter\/blog\/2026\/02\/22\/bunny-bread\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/easter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/easter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/easter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/easter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/easter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/easter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/easter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/easter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/easter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}