Celebrate spring and Easter with Chocolate Bunny Cocktails. These candy cocktails are filled with a white chocolate martini, but you can easily fill them with chocolate milk for the kiddos! Learn how to carve a hole in the hip for a straw and fill these with delicious goodness!
DISCLAIMER
This post may contain affiliate links, meaning Feast + West may receive commissions for purchases made through those links — at no cost to you. All opinions are our own. Please read our full disclosure for more information.
About these Chocolate Bunny Cocktails
The few times I’ve gone into stores this spring, I’ve seen so much kiddo stuff around Easter. Crafts like Easter egg dyeing kits, brightly colored candies and so many stuffed animal bunnies. Not a thing for the adults (besides candy) in those aisles.
Now don’t get me wrong, Easter morning as a kid was always a good time in my family. There were baskets of goodies, egg hunts and birds’ nest cookies.
These are incredibly cute! What a wonderful idea! I can’t wait to make these for Easter Brunch. Is brunch too early to serve these?
— Millie
Why you’ll love this recipe
These Easter bunny cocktails are always a hit! Take it from all the readers who’ve told me they’ve tried them!
- Serving a
drink inside a chocolate bunny is super fun and unexpected for your Easter guests. - It’s easy to prepare the bunny for a straw! I’ll show you how, below.
- You can fill them with milk for the kids or a cocktail like a white chocolate martini for the grown-ups.
Best chocolate bunnies
If you’re looking to make chocolate bunny cocktails, you’ll need to pick up a few chocolate bunnies — duh! But the important thing to remember is they need to be hollow.
I bought these 3.5-ounce Lindt chocolate bunnies for my cocktails. They are the perfect size for a white chocolate martini!
You should be able to find these or something similar anywhere you buy Easter candy. (But hurry, they’re harder to find the night before!)
Note: If you buy the big 7-ounce chocolate bunnies, you’ll need to double the cocktail recipe.
How to drink out of a chocolate bunny
You can add the drink to the bunny a couple ways:
- Chop or bite off the ears at the hollow part and pour it in.
- If you prefer to keep the ears, you can put a hole for the straw in its hip. (This is my preference — bunnies don’t look like bunnies without their ears!)
Biting is safer for kiddos. Let the grown-ups do the knife trick!
- First, mark where you’d like to insert the straw. I recommend going at a slight angle rather than straight down.
- You’ll need to warm up the tip of a knife. If you have a gas stove, just hold the tip in the flames for 5-10 seconds. If not, use a mug of hot water, then quickly wipe the knife clean before inserting it into the bunny.
- The hot knife will immediately start to melt the chocolate once you touch it to the Easter bunny, but work quickly.
- Give it a few gentle twirls to “drill” a hole into the chocolate until it’s wide enough for a straw. (I used these metallic paper straws.) You may wish to cut 2-3 inches off the straw with a pair of scissors, but this step isn’t necessary.
- Then use a funnel to pour in your drink of choice! I have this set of varying-size funnels — the smallest one is perfect for these Easter cocktails!
Chocolate bunny cocktail ideas
I hope this goes without saying, but do stay away from anything warm like coffee, hot chocolate or even a fresh espresso martini — or you’ll melt your bunny from the inside out!
Non-alcoholic option: I will 100% support filling a chocolate Easter bunny with milk or chocolate milk. You don’t have to be a kid to enjoy that!
Liqueurs: You could also fill your chocolate bunny with 3 ounces of Irish cream liqueur or even your favorite whiskey. A white Russian would also be delicious.
Dessert martinis: Something very Easter-y to try would be carrot cake shots! You could also fill it with another dessert martini, such as:
White chocolate martini recipe
If you’re craving a cocktail, you’ll love the white chocolate martini that’s at the end of this post.
The white chocolate martini features vanilla vodka, white chocolate liqueur and half-and-half. The sweetness of the white chocolate is the perfect complement to the milk chocolate shell of the bunny container.
You’ll mix it up in a cocktail shaker *, and then decant into your chocolate bunny with a funnel.
And when your chocolate bunny cocktails are all gone, feel free to bite right into the ears — because being a kid at Easter is still okay!
Easter menu ideas
To me, Easter is a chance to gather with family (safely, of course) in springtime and cook up a storm. My ideal day goes like this:
We’ll start the day with carrot cake scones, enjoy a midday feast of leg of lamb and then finish it off with more carrot cake, bunny cake pops and Easter candy bark.
And after dinner, we’ll enjoy the fruits of our Easter basket hauls with chocolate bunny cocktails and a slice of Kit Kat Easter basket cake. And of course, the kids can have one too! We’ll fill theirs with chocolate milk, of course.
Here’s to a fun thing to do on Easter this year. Hope you enjoy this Easter treat!
More Easter cocktails
Chocolate Bunny Cocktail
ingredients
- 1 hollow chocolate bunny* 3.5 ounces
- 1 ounce vanilla vodka
- 1 ounce white chocolate liqueur
- 1 ounce half-and-half
instructions
- Partially unwrap the bunny. Use a knife to mark the spot where you’ll insert the straw.
- Heat a paring knife over a gas stove or in a mug of hot water. Wipe it dry on paper towel, then insert it into the bunny and twist the knife until the opening is big enough for a small funnel and a straw.
- In a cocktail shaker * filled with ice, combine vanilla vodka, white chocolate liqueur and half-and-half. Shake vigorously.
- Place a funnel in the opening of the chocolate bunny, then decant the cocktail into the bunny.
notes
video
recommended products
As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Millie says
These are incredibly cute! What a wonderful idea! I can’t wait to make these for Easter Brunch. Is brunch too early to serve these?
Susannah says
Thank you Millie! I really don’t think brunch is too early, but that’s just me! They make a great dessert cocktail for sure!