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Easy Mini Chocolate Cake

February 8, 2016 By Kerry Cooks 7 Comments

Just enough cake and frosting for you, and maybe one other person! Perfect for Valentine’s or a romantic dinner!

Just enough cake and frosting for you, and maybe one other person! Perfect for Valentine's or a romantic dinner! Easy Mini Chocolate Cake by Kerry Cooks

Just enough cake and frosting for you, and maybe one other person! Perfect for Valentine's or a romantic dinner! Easy Mini Chocolate Cake by Kerry Cooks 

This is for everyone who wants to bake just enough indulgent, decadent chocolate cake for one (or two!) servings….

It’s a baby version of my Easy One-Bowl Classic Chocolate Cake!

There are no exotic ingredients either, just things that you probably have in your cupboard RIGHT NOW! Let’s make a cake we won’t feel bad about polishing off in one sitting!

I was inspired to make this diddy Chocolate Cake recently when we were trying to eat a little healthier. Baking a full size cake unless you have people ready to eat it can be a recipe for disaster (hello baking puns!) – who needs delicious leftover cake calling your name from a tin, right?!

It would also be so fun to make for someone’s birthday – a cake just for them!

 Just enough cake and frosting for you, and maybe one other person! Perfect for Valentine's or a romantic dinner! Easy Mini Chocolate Cake by Kerry Cooks

I’ve never really gone in for those mug cakes, except in very desperate times. Have you tried them? I kinda think that if a cake’s worth doing, it’s worth doing properly, even if it’s barely plate sized!

This Easy Mini Chocolate Cake is SO good and you can have it ready in less than thirty minutes! If you need a solution to a bad day or a way to show someone you care, just whip them up their own personal cake!

All you need to make it is butter, sugar, eggs, flour, cocoa and vanilla! It’s simple to make in a small cereal sized bowl too – no mixer needed!

As I mentioned last week though, your chocolate cakes will be on A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL if you use really good cocoa powder. The insanely amazing thing is, the best cocoa powder is actually cheaper than the ones you can get in the supermarkets! It’s this one that I recommend.

 Just enough cake and frosting for you, and maybe one other person! Perfect for Valentine's or a romantic dinner! Easy Mini Chocolate Cake by Kerry Cooks

 

Sprinkle on some heart sprinkles, like these and it’s even cuter.

Let’s talk tins!

I baked this cake in two three inch mini tins that I have randomly had since I can remember (no clue where they came from!) but there are similar ones here.  You could also bake them in disposable pie cases too!

Or if you have a children’s bakeware set lying around, just use their tins! 🙂

5.0 from 5 reviews
Easy Mini Chocolate Cake
 
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Prep time
5 mins
Cook time
10 mins
Total time
15 mins
 
Author: Kerry @ Kerry Cooks
Ingredients
  • For the cake:

  • 80g unsalted butter
  • 90g dark brown sugar
  • 1 medium free range egg
  • 70g plain flour
  • 25g cocoa powder
  • pinch salt
  • splash vanilla extract or paste
  • large pinch (about a quarter of a tsp) coffee granules (as they come)

  • For the frosting:

  • 50g full fat cream cheese
  • 20g unsalted butter
  • 15g (1 tbsp) cocoa powder
  • 100g icing sugar
  • splash vanilla
Instructions
  1. Grease your mini cake tins with soft butter and preheat your oven to 160C/gas mark 4.
  2. In a medium bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until combined and fluffy. Beat in the egg, vanilla and salt.

  3. Next, measure the cocoa, flour and coffee into a separate bowl and give it a quick whisk before adding to the wet mixture. Mix until everything is completely incorporated (it's handy to use a rubber spatula at this point!)

  4. For the Frosting

  5. In a mixer or in a large bowl, beat together the butter (it needs to be very soft!) with the icing sugar and cocoa - sieve these both into the bowl together to make sure we don't get any lumps.

  6. Beat that mixture together until its fluffy and smooth (a couple of minutes) and then beat in the cream cheese, vanilla and pinch of salt.

  7. This keeps best at room temperature until you're ready to use it. Chocolate cream cheese frosting is a dream to frost a cake with, so go crazy with artistic swirls, and sprinkles!
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 Happy Valentine’s!

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  1. Elinor Hill aka beachhutcook says

    February 8, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    Oh too cute! Elinor x

    Reply
  2. Helen Costello says

    February 8, 2016 at 2:53 pm

    Super cute! So often mini cakes seem to fiddly in their decoration to be worthwhile but this looks great. I’ve also used small baked bean tins for individual cake tins in the past too.

    Reply
  3. Emma @ Supper in the Suburbs says

    February 8, 2016 at 2:08 pm

    What a great idea! I should’ve done this for my birthday! We ended up with a 3 tiered monster just for the two of us. We really should learn portion control…

    Reply
  4. Emily says

    February 8, 2016 at 1:16 pm

    Very cute! This would be perfect for me as a whole cake for my boyfriend and I is just dangerous… xx

    Reply
  5. jules says

    February 8, 2016 at 10:39 am

    Hi, this looks yummy. Do you have an alternate frosting that doesn’t use cream cheese as I’m allergic?

    Reply
    • Kerry Cooks says

      February 8, 2016 at 11:35 am

      Plenty! Regular buttercream, or any other frosting recipe!

      Reply
  6. EmmaMT from CakesBakesAndCookies.com says

    February 8, 2016 at 10:17 am

    I think my hubby would love that. Anything chocolate is a winner in our house! Great cake
    x

    Reply

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