Easy Valentine’s Day Mini Cakes
Valentine’s Day is almost here, and I have the sweetest little cakes to help you celebrate! These single-serving Valentine’s Day mini cakes are gorgeous, festive, and most importantly, easy! They’re made using chocolate wafers and whipped cream, which means that you can whip up a batch of them in just a few minutes.
I love miniature cakes, but I’m always put off by the process of baking a larger cake and then painstakingly cutting out smaller circles. That takes a long time, and then there’s all those perfectly good cake scraps going to waste… no thank you! I think all of my mini cakes will be made with chocolate wafer cookies from now on. They have a deep, dark chocolate flavor, and after a few hours in the refrigerator, the whipped cream softens the cookies, so they develop a wonderful cake-like texture. (If you’ve ever dunked an Oreo in a glass of milk to get it to soften, then you know what I’m talking about!)
The cakes would be good on their own, but it’s the outer coating of red, white, and pink Valentine’s Day candies that really makes them special. The decorations make the cakes so cheerful and fun! I used an assortment of chocolate and gummy candies on the cakes (listed below) but feel free to mix it up and use your favorites! However you decorate them, I know that these beautiful cakes will be a hit with your valentine this year.
Ingredients
Directions
for full recipes please see : www.ohnuts.com
I love miniature cakes, but I’m always put off by the process of baking a larger cake and then painstakingly cutting out smaller circles. That takes a long time, and then there’s all those perfectly good cake scraps going to waste… no thank you! I think all of my mini cakes will be made with chocolate wafer cookies from now on. They have a deep, dark chocolate flavor, and after a few hours in the refrigerator, the whipped cream softens the cookies, so they develop a wonderful cake-like texture. (If you’ve ever dunked an Oreo in a glass of milk to get it to soften, then you know what I’m talking about!)
The cakes would be good on their own, but it’s the outer coating of red, white, and pink Valentine’s Day candies that really makes them special. The decorations make the cakes so cheerful and fun! I used an assortment of chocolate and gummy candies on the cakes (listed below) but feel free to mix it up and use your favorites! However you decorate them, I know that these beautiful cakes will be a hit with your valentine this year.
Ingredients
- 3 cups cold heavy cream
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 9 oz package (about 48 cookies) chocolate wafers
- Valentine’s candy, like Sixlets, mellocreme candy hearts, red mini hearts, sour lips, Valentine’s gumballs, and red and white M&Ms
Directions
- Combine the cream and powdered sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment. Whip the cream on medium-high speed until it forms firm peaks.
- You can use a knife to spread the whipped cream between each layer of cookie, but I prefer to put the cream in a piping bag fitted with a round tip–it’s faster and neater. Either way, spread a thin layer of cream on the bottom of a cookie, and place the cookie onto a plate, cardboard round, or other serving surface.
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for full recipes please see : www.ohnuts.com