Is baking and imaginatively decorating cakes your passion and are you constantly looking for new inspiration for your sweet treats? How about mini cakes, for example? The popular saying “Small but mighty” applies here in absolutely every respect. The charming mini-sized tarts are definitely in no way inferior to their larger counterparts. Their handy size makes them easier to bake and they are a real eye-catcher. In this article you will find recipes for tasty and attractive mini cakes that will pamper your taste buds and delight you with their great looks.
Prepare quick mini cakes – small cheesecakes with raspberries
With our first recipe for mini cakes you can make them without bakingdelicious cheese cakesPrepare with white chocolate and raspberries. For this simple andfruity dessertyou need the following ingredients:
- 150g raspberries
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 30 g butter biscuit
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 250 g cream cheese
- 25g powdered sugar
- 120g white chocolate chips
Bring the raspberries, lemon juice and sugar to a boil over medium heat. Stir occasionally and simmer for about 5 minutes. Remove the fruit puree from the heat and let it cool. For the base of the tarts, crumble the cookies and mix them with a quarter of the chocolate and the butter. Pour the mixture into the baking tray for the mini cakes and press firmly. Place the mold in the refrigerator. If you don't have a special baking pan for the mini cakes, you can use appetizer rings that you wrap tightly on the bottom with aluminum foil. Strain the raspberries through a sieve and add them to the cream cheese. Then pour the fruit and cream cheese mixture over the cake base. Chill the small cakes for another two hours. Then remove the tartlets from the rings and garnish with chocolate chips and whole raspberries.
Prepare mini cakes vegan - gluten-free cheesecake with berries
Vegans don't need to go to the small,sweet seductionwaive. The mini cake recipes are also available in vegan versions, which simply taste breathtakingly delicious and look unique, don't you think?
Ingredients for the cake base:
- 130g almonds
- 180 g dates, previously soaked in water
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- pinch of salt
For the cream filling:
- 200 g cashew nuts, soaked overnight
- 80 ml maple syrup
- 1 TL Vanilleextrakt
- Pulp of a vanilla bean
- 2 tbsp coconut oil, melted
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 80 ml almond or oat milk
- Berries of your choice to decorate
Line a 6-cup muffin tin with paper liners. Put all the ingredients for the bases of the mini cakes in the food processor and process everything into a homogeneous, sticky mass. If necessary, add some water. For the cream filling, add all the ingredients to the blender and mix until you get a thick, creamy consistency. Add 1-2 tablespoons of plant-based milk as needed. Finally, spread the cream on the tart base and put it in the freezer for at least 3 hours. Thaw 30 minutes before serving and garnish with berries of your choice.
Bundt cake recipes
If you would like to surprise your guests for a special occasion or simply for a coffee party with a tasty and newly interpreted cake classic, then you can bake these little bundt cakes. You can bake attractive and juicy yogurt bundt cakes in small format using these ingredients:
- 180 g Flour
- 100g sugar
- 170 g natural yogurt
- 2 Owner
- 60g butter, melted
- 2 tsp baking powder
- Packet of vanilla sugar
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon peel
For the glaze:
- 120g powdered sugar
- 2 tsp raspberry juice
- 3 tbsp water
Mix butter, eggs, sugar, lemon zest and yogurt with a hand mixer. Add the flour and baking powder mixture and mix into a smooth dough. Then fill the dough into small Bundt cake tins. These products make 12 pieces. Bake the Gugelhupf mini cakes in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for about 12-15 minutes. To make the glaze, simply mix all the ingredients together well. Drizzle it over the cooled mini bundt cakes.
Low carb mini chocolate cake with chocolate-coconut cream
If you are paying attention to a reduced calorie intake, you can bake this gluten-free, nut-free and dairy-free recipe for small chocolate cakes.
Ingredients for four tarts:
- 1 tbsp arrowroot starch
- 30 g Cocoa powder
- 35 g coconut flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 TL Backnatron
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 eggs, separated
- 1/4 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 1 TL for Van
- 100 ml maple syrup
- 50 ml Coconut beer
- 60 ml coconut milk
- 4 tablespoons chocolate chips, melted
For the cream:
- 300 g coconut cream
- 175g chocolate, melted
Grease the muffin baking cups and line them with paper cases. Separate eggs and beat egg whites until stiff. Mix the wet ingredients with a hand mixer, adding the melted chocolate at the end. Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to the remaining ingredients. Then fold in the whipped egg whites. Bake the mini cakes in a preheated oven at 175 degrees for 20 minutes. Let the small cakes cool down.
In the meantime, whip the coconut cream until fluffy, add the melted chocolate and stir again. Put the finished cream in a piping bag, pipe it onto the cakes and place another cake on each. Complete the enchanting look of this delicious dessert with some chocolate sauce and sugar sprinkles.
Mini chocolate cake
If you can't resist the sweet temptation of a chocolate cake and find that the chocolaty taste and the delicious cake bases always combine to create a real treat, then our next recipe idea is something for you. When decorating the mini chocolate cake, you can be creative and conjure up small, unique works of art. You can make these enchanting chocolate cakes according to your taste from light cake base or, if you are a real chocolate fan, you can also use chocolate or cocoa in the dough.
Bake the cake base in a baking tray and cut out the individual mini cake bases using a cookie cutter in the desired shape and size. You can transform a mini-sized chocolate cake into a lovingly decorated birthday cake in no time. A mini heart-shaped cake, on the other hand, will definitely make your lover happy on Valentine's Day. Whether you design the mini chocolate cake with two or three tiers is of course entirely up to you.
Here is a delicious recipe for chocolate frosting that you can use to build and decorate your mini chocolate cake:
- 120 g soft butter
- 95g powdered sugar
- 1 THE Ovomaltine
- pinch of salt
- 85g chocolate chips, melted and cooled
- 1 TL Vanilleextrakt
For the chocolatey frosting, mix all the ingredients in the kitchen mixer until you get a smooth and fluffy mixture.
Pink buttercream for mini cakes for children
You can design the cake decoration according to your own ideas. You are welcome to use the techniques you know from the other cake recipes here, but a little more sensitivity is required here. Colorful sugar sprinkles and confetti turn the tasty mini cake into a great and colorful birthday cake. Otherwise, you can create beautiful shapes with different piping nozzles.
If you want to bake a colorful mini buttercream cake, you can quickly prepare a delicious buttercream from these ingredients, which you can color with food coloring of your choice.
- 75 g Butter
- 225g powdered sugar
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 TL Vanilleextrakt
- food coloring
Stir the butter until soft. Add the milk, vanilla and half the powdered sugar and beat for 5 minutes. Then add the remaining sugar and beat the cream until fluffy. Finally add the food coloring drop by drop.
Mini Linzer cake
Another sweet classic that is really pretty to look at in small format is the small Linzertorte. The fruity cake, on which you place strips of dough in a grid pattern, doesn't actually need any further decoration. You can also bake the mini linzer cake in greased and floured cake tins and enjoy it after it has cooled down.
