Baking Small Cakes Recipes

This easy mini cake recipe is so much fun to make! And guess what? Each mini cake has two beautifully baked cake layers and decorated just like a regular cake- only these mini cakes are just 4″ and the perfect tiny treat!With red velvet, pistachio, Funfetti, lemon, or vanilla, these small cakes are the perfect petit treat!

Mini cakes have been a thing for a while now, butChelsweetsmade them widely popular last year with her cute mini cake videos.

While some of her mini cakes use cupcakes as the base, I thought it’d be fun to actually make mini cakes that are layered with three layers, like a regular cake. It’s a bit of a visual deception looking at these cakes, because they look just like a regular if they’re not against something to give you the proper size reference!

Tin Can Mini Christmas Cakes

There are a few different ways to make mini cakes: either with 4″ cake pans or baked as a large sheet cake and molded with a large (3-4″) cookie cutter. Either way works well! I personally prefer to the 4″ cake pans, and I then make only two layers, but you can use a 3″ cookie cutter, and make three layers.

If you’re a cake lover like me, then you’re just going to become obsessed with how adorable and fun this mini cake recipe is.

Petit treat. And guess what? We have four different flavors for making these secretly vegan cakes:pistachio, red velvet, lemon, andFunfetti!There’s also an option for a classic vegan vanilla cake as well.

Baking Mini Fruit Cakes

And trust me, you won’t be able to to tell that these mini cakes are entirely eggless, dairy free, and vegan. You’d never know! These delicious bakes are actually one of my favorite vegan cake recipes of all time.

You can also easily make this vegan dessert naturally gluten free as well by swapping in gluten free 1:1 baking flour or oat flour!

These mini cakes are the perfect treat for birthdays, graduations, tea parties (sort of reminds me of the Mad Hatter for some reason ha!), bridal showers, baby showers, and more. They’re so fun to make and even more fun to eat!

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Each mini cake recipe is designed to yieldone mini cake. Theses small cakes will still be quite large in serving, so you can easily split a cake between two people.

For this mini cake recipe, this cake recipe is super simple. Like I mentioned above, you can use two 4″ cake pans or a large round cookie cutter.

For the cookie cutter option you’ll need: round 3-4″ cookie cutter(can vary on the size), medium baking sheet with walls, andparchment paper.That’s really it to make the cake portion of these undetectably vegan mini cakes.

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For frosting the mini cakes, I do recommend using standard cake tools. This includes acake turntable, small offset spatula, bench scraper, andpiping tips + bagsif you’d like to decorate your mini cakes.

These mini cakes are shockingly simple and easy. If you’ve ever baked a cake, then you’ll be good to go!The full recipe, as always, is found down below in the recipe card, along with ingredient measurements.However, we’ll go over some main tips and visuals here.

You’ll first start by making the mini cakes into a small square sheet cake. I recommend an 8×8″ pan, such as one you would use for brownies.

Mini Strawberry Sheet Cake (uses Fresh Strawberries)

Once you’ve made the cake batter, you’ll bake the cake as you would a sheet cake. The only difference here is that once cooled, we’ll cut the cake layers out of the sheet cake! You will have leftover cake scraps, so see the next section for how to re-purpose those 🙂

Once baked, you’ll follow the instructions just like for the 4″ cake version! I’ve created a cute little video tutorial to demonstrate, so be sure to check that out here!

With this small cake recipe, you will have some leftover cake scraps. Not to worry! There are plenty of ways you can repurpose those cake scraps for something else.

Fresh Raspberry Mini Cakes

I actually have a really fun vegan and gluten free birthday cake truffles recipe coming next week (which I’ll link here once it’s live!), so stay tuned! It’s the perfect way to re-use these scraps into something equally delicious.

You can decorate these small cakes however you’d please! Each flavor can have its own spin: red velvet cake have piping on top, pistachio sprinkled with crushed nuts, lemon topped with zest, vanilla with flowers, and of course, Funfetti with sprinkles!

If you’re using this cake recipe for a kid’s birthday, it’s so fun to allow the kids to decorate the cakes themselves. You can use vegan sprinkles, different piping tips with different colored buttercream, chocolate chips, vegan ganache, and more for decoration.

Mini Cakes For When You Need A Little Something Sweet

If you’re making these mini cakes for a baby shower, it would be so cute to fill the insides of the cakes with either pink or blue frosting, and leave the outside of all the cakes the same color! Then when you slice into the cake, you see the reveal!

There are so many different cute and fun ways to decorate these mini cakes. I cannot wait to see your beautiful creations!

You are just going to LOVE making these super fun mini cakes! They’re just perfect for kids and adults, and bring a smile to everyone’s faces!

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If you make this mini cake recipe, pleaseleave a comment down below, as well as a rating⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. This helps others find the recipe!

If you make this recipe, please be sure to leave a comment and a rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ below. This helps others to find the recipes! As always, I absolutely love to see your beautiful creations on Instagram and Pinterest, so be sure to tag me there as well!

This easy mini cake recipe is so much fun to make! And guess what? Each mini cake has two beautifully baked cake layers and decorated just like a regular cake- only these mini cakes are just 4″ and the perfect tiny treat! With red velvet, pistachio, Funfetti, lemon, or vanilla, these small cakes are the perfect petit treat!

Butter Cake Recipe (moist Basic Cake)

To make the sheet cake version, prep an 8×8 baking pan greased with cooking oil and lined with parchment paper. Continue on after you’ve made the batter:Mini Cakes baked in ramekins and decorated with vanilla frosting and fresh berries or sprinkles. Serve as single layer cakes or double layer cakes. Perfect for Valentine’s Day, anniversaries, or as a smash cake.

Hello there! I’m stopping in with one last Valentine’s Day recipe. Although I am not the hugest fan of Valentine’s Day, I am a HUGE fan of chocolate (duh). Soooooo, I will not turn down the opportunity to bake, eat, and share some chocolaty goodness this Valentine’s Day. That brings me to these adorable Mini Cakes!

No special cake pans are needed for these cuties; the cakes are baked in ramekins. I’m sure you have some ramekins lying around. Grab them from the back of your cabinet, whip up this easy one-bowl chocolate cake batter, and before you know it you’ll be diving into chocolate cake.

Chocolate Mini Cakes

I used 7-oz (4 inch) ramekins, which made 4 miniature cakes. You can either serve the cakes in single layers or you can double them up and make two double layer cakes. I’ve included a recipe for a small batch of vanilla frosting, which I simply spread on the cakes with a butter knife. Top the cakes with fresh berries or sprinkles, and serve them to someone you love.

These mini chocolate cakes are great for Valentine’s day, anniversaries, or as a smash cake. And since this recipe feeds just a few, you really don’t

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Mini Cakes That Prove Good Things Come In Small Packages

Miniature chocolate cakes baked in ramekins and decorated with vanilla frosting and fresh berries or sprinkles. Serve as four single layer cakes or as two double layer cakes. Perfect for Valentine's Day, anniversaries or as a smash cake.

The flavor of the coffee will not come through in the cupcakes. The coffee flavor will help intensify the chocolate flavor. If you'd rather not use coffee, you can substitute hot water.

Calories: 398 kcal | Carbohydrates: 59 g | Protein: 3 g | Fat: 16 g | Saturated Fat: 11 g | Cholesterol: 63 mg | Sodium: 102 mg | Potassium: 82 mg | Sugar: 47 g | Vitamin A: 320 IU | Calcium: 47 mg | Iron: 0.9 mgSmall cakes are certainly convenient for small celebrations. This 1-layer 6-inch chocolate cake serves 4, so it’s perfect for date night, a Valentine’s Day dessert, a small family birthday celebration, or for whenever you need a scaled-down cake. We all love it with chocolate ganache on top. You can also use this chocolate cake batter to make a small batch of cupcakes. 

Mini Chocolate Cakes

Over the past year, I’ve received many requests for smaller variations of normally large desserts. My team and I have directed a lot of bakers to our 6-inch cake recipes blog post, where I teach you how to turn cupcake batter into a 6-inch layer cake. But what if you don’t need 3 layers?

Here’s my 1-layer 6 inch chocolate cake recipe. I worked on