Easter Rabbit Bread - not.

This really didn't go as expected. The bottom right guy should have been a bunny.

This year my sister sent me a picture of little rabbits made of bread that she found on the internet. "You should make these," she said.

There were "before" and "after" pictures and they looked so cute. I've made a lot of bread in my time so I couldn't quite figure out how bread could be shaped so perfectly, but thought it was worth a try. However, I was skeptical so I thought some googling was in order to see how it was done, exactly.
Here's the picture my sister sent me.

This same picture was all over the internet. Everyone that posted it said how great the little bunnies were and even provided the (supposed) recipe they used to make them with. Amazing that so many people posted identical, successful results. This is the point alarm bells should have been going off in my head. But they looked so cool and I'll try anything once (with the exception of beef tendons, but I digress) so I thought I'd give it a whirl. Of course they didn't turn out. Why not, you might ask?
Here's what I made.

See. This dough does not even look like the dough in the picture above.

Pretty sad bunny, if you compare it to the picture above.

Yup. I was sucked into a scam. The thing about the Internet is that once something is posted - even if it's stupid or just plain wrong - it's the virtual equivalent of poking around in a house of mirrors. The myth is perpetuated by everyone re-posting stuff and taking credit for it. Turns out there are a lot of liars pretending to be bakers. Just because it's on the internet doesn't make it true - remember that kids.

After this abject (but still tasty) failure, I did a bit more searching & found out that they are actually cookies from some French bakery. Or possibly Japanese cookies. Of course they are. (When I tried to find the whistle-blowing blog again, I couldn't find my way back there. Dang you, house of Internet mirrors!) With 20/20 hindsight, I realized that the dough in the picture Gjoa sent me doesn't even look like bread dough. Look at it. I guess we see what we want to see.

Oh well, it was fun trying to make bread bunnies and I did get a laugh experimenting with some alternate bunny shapes. In the end, hot out of the oven with a dollop of butter melting down the sides, it doesn't really matter what shape the bread is. 

Morals of the story: 
1. There are some very lazy liars in cyber-space.
2. Homemade bread is delicious even when it is kinda creepy looking.

p.s. My cousin Natalie suggested I take a crack at making this basket of bread. Pass, cuz. Lesson learned. <shakes head> Lesson learned.