Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour three 9-inch round cake pans and line with parchment circles.
• Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Stir in vanilla extract.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a separate bowl.
• Add dry ingredients and buttermilk alternately to the butter mixture. Mix just until smooth.
• Divide batter evenly into three bowls. Tint one pink, one yellow, and one blue using gel food coloring.
• Pour each color into prepared pans.
• Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool in pans for 10 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
• Beat butter for frosting until creamy.
• Gradually add powdered sugar, mixing well.
• Add vanilla, salt, and heavy cream. Beat until smooth and fluffy.
• Place blue cake layer on serving plate. Spread frosting evenly on top.
• Add yellow layer and frost. Place pink layer on top.
• Apply a thin crumb coat around cake and chill briefly.
• Frost entire cake smoothly.
• Press Bunny Peeps around edges of cake.
• Fill center with green coconut flakes and decorate with Easter M&M’s candies.