# The Mini Chocolate Cake

This recipe is for a mini chocolate cake with four layers, incredibly rich and velvety, made entirely by hand and covered with a super simple and fluffy chocolate whipped cream.

- Servings: 1 servings
- Total time: 25 min
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 50 g hot water
- 1.5 tsp instant espresso powder
- 15 g dutch processed cocoa powder
- 50 g milk
- 30 g flavourless oil
- 55 g all purpose flour
- 10 g cornstarch
- 0.25 tsp baking soda
- 0.25 tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 large egg
- 50 g white granulated sugar
- 100 g whipping cream
- 1.5 tbsp dutch processed cocoa powder
- 30 g white granulated sugar
- 6 fresh figs
- 10 almond slices

## Instructions

1. In a bowl, mix hot water, instant espresso powder, and cocoa powder. This step is blooming the cocoa powder, to release and intensify flavors.
2. Add milk and flavourless oil to the chocolate mixture and whisk until combined.
3. In another bowl, mix all purpose flour, cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
4. In a third bowl, whisk an egg and white granulated sugar together until slightly fluffy.
5. Add the wet ingredients to the egg mixture, and whisk.
6. Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and whisk until smooth.
7. Pour the batter into 4" cake pans lined with parchment paper, or greased, and bake in a preheated oven at 340°F/170°C for 25 minutes.
8. Once baked, let them cool for a bit and run a butter knife along the sides. This is to release the cakes from the pans.
9. Cut each cake in half horizontally to have four layers.
10. Prepare the frosting by mixing dutch processed cocoa powder and white granulated sugar together.
11. Add the cocoa-sugar mixture to the whipping cream and beat until fluffy.
12. Frost the layers and assemble the cakes.
13. Decorate the mini cakes with fig slices and almond slices.

## Equipment

- whisk
- oven
- 4" cake pans
- cake strips
- scale
- knife
- spatula
- hand mixer

## Source

- Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeYvnuFeeEQ&list=PLsmVFPxI-0Vc4etCuymGme7YAhTVMNaR2&index=2
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/0c69a2a3-8ba6-4af1-a1f7-49420f941320
- Extracted: 2025-03-02

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