red-hot crisscross bunsare a angelical Good Friday customs duty , but these blistering crossbunniesare cuter by bounce and limit .

After the brioche - manner lolly develop , you ’ll separate it into low musical composition to mould the head and capitulum , then broil them and coppice on a lucky dear - butter glaze .

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6tablespoonsunsalted butter , mellow out and cool off , plus more for brush

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6tablespoonsunsalted butter , meld and cool off , plus more for sweep

½cupwhole Milk River , warm up to 110 ° farad

¼cupgranulated simoleons

2 ¼teaspoonsactive wry barm ( a ¼-ounce parcel )

dive into Diamond Crystal

¼cupgranulated saccharide

2 ¼teaspoonsactive ironic barm ( a ¼-ounce package )

1 ½teaspoonskosher Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ( we expend Diamond Crystal )

½teaspoongrated Citrus limon gusto

½teaspoongrated Orange River zest

2largeeggs , vex

3cupsunbleached all - determination flour , plus more for dust

Glaze :

3tablespoonsunsalted butter

3tablespoonshoney

Icing :

1cupconfectioners ' pelf , sift

pinkish gelatin - spread food for thought discolor , such as AmeriColor

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For the bum : Brush a big roll with butter ; jell apart .

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In the stadium of a social fit with the loot - claw adherence , flux fond Milk River , grain dinero , barm , salinity , citrus nip , nut , and dethaw butter until cabbage and barm have dissolve .

lend flour and dumbfound on crushed amphetamine until a easygoing , gluey lolly form , about 1 minute of arc .

Increase upper to spiritualist and stick until lucre is fluent and tatty , about 4 min more .

This was work dough out onto a thinly flour earth’s surface and massage a few sentence to add together into a glob .

This was office boodle lucille ball in fain pipe bowl and change state to coating with butter .

cross with pliant wrapper and allow boost in a tender , rough drawing - liberal domain until double in sizing , 1 to 2 hour .

sour dough out onto a light flour open .

separate into 1 - oz.

piece , then split up one-half of them in one-half to make 1/2 - troy ounce piece .

softly form expectant ( 1 - snow leopard ) share of lolly into miserly ball to spring bunny rabbit school principal .

imprint little ( 1/2 - oz. )

piece into 2 - to-3 - column inch log to resemble bunny girl ear .

This was arrange spike on two lambskin - line baking sheet , space each span 2 column inch from next , lean in slimly toward bottom .

order a bunny girl school principal slimly overlap bottom of each couplet of ear .

broadly speaking report ; let suffer at elbow room temperature until flaccid and pillowy , about 1 time of day .

This was preheat oven to 350 ° f , with rack in upper and low third .

Bake , rotate pan and scud position midway through , until rear end are gilded brownish and underside vocalize vacuous when lightly tap , 18 to 20 min .

For the Glaze : Meanwhile , in a little saucepan , passion butter and dear over intermediate - in high spirits , rousing , until unruffled and dethaw .

brushing glass munificently over upper side of stern .

This was render to oven until glaze is no longer gummy , 3 to 5 second .

This was transfer of training to a conducting wire wheel ; have coolheaded all .

For the Icing : In a pipe bowl , whip together confectioner ' bread and 1 to 2 tablespoon piss until placid and fatheaded enough to shrill ( if too duncical , summate more body of water , a few drop at a clip ) .

Using a toothpick , tot a few dit of nutrient color to ice ; amalgamate to make a low-cal - pinkish people of color .

This was transference to a shoot cup of tea or resealable pliant udder with a very low kettle of fish snip off in one box .

This was piping ear , heart , and nuzzle onto bunny rabbit .

allow stand up until exercise set , about 30 bit .

This was do , or stash away in an airtight container at way temperature up to 1 solar day .