One Bowl Mini Layer Cake

[superbadgirl]

There's nothing particularly special about this cake, other than it's built for two. Well, technically, I suppose, four. All I know is, I ate half of this thing in one sitting and I'm not embarrassed about it at all.

Comments

[thremma]

So tonight's baking is earmarked for a chocolate foods contest I'm entering tomorrow. But Wednesday night this is on the list for things for supper. DH and I always end up having stale baked goods for a few days because baking for just two is tricky. This will do it :)

[superbadgirl]

It's really handy for a quick dessert, with no need to worry about staleness or what to do with 10-22 other cupcakes

[with_rainfall]

Oh em gee, this looks good. How would you ice the cake, though - would you need those piping bags, or just spread it on with a knife, or...? I've never made a cake before, so this looks like a good one to start with.

EDIT: Sorry, another question: what is white whole wheat flour? Do you mean plain flour (what Americans call all purpose flour, I think) or another sort?

Thanks! :)

[beesandbrews]

White whole wheat flour is just that. The wheat doesn't have colored bran.

http://wholegrainscouncil.org/whole-grains-101/whole-white-wheat-faq

You can swap regular flour with no problem.

[superbadgirl]

White whole wheat is just wheat from a different type of wheat - regular whole wheat is red. White whole wheat subs in a lot better for AP for people who prefer it, but the recipe works with either.

Icing it depends on the frosting. With the whipped cream frosting I used, piping wasn't much of an option. You just slap it on top of the first little cake for the filling layer (leave room at the edge for the gravity factor), then you'll plop a bunch of it on top of the stacked cake and kind of shimmy it around the top and over the sides. Add more to sides, swirl and voila. (I'm terrible at instructions - if you can youtube, just youtube how to frost a layer cake and you'll get people about 400x more helpful than me. Hee!)

[with_rainfall]

Ah, no wonder! I'm from Australia, so for us normal wheat is white! I'll have to google red wheat flour, because I've not heard of it.

Haha, I'm such a baking noob that it didn't even occur to me that youtube would have stuff. Thanks for the info. :)

[corab]

This cake looks good wtbs sorry but this cake will be for one csuse I am a cake fanatic and will devour this pretty lul thing in one day....ALONE

[superbadgirl]

LOL, you sound like my kind of people. I really had to resist not eating the other half of the cake right on the spot.

[corab]

Ikr...I am fascinated with cakes....I have an album in the gallery of my phone that's dedicated only to cakes smh lol

[with_rainfall]

That's the spirit! :P

[superbadgirl]

I think you should try it and report back to us. :) I might bump up the flour to compensate for the loss of cocoa, skip the espresso (natch!) and use a vanilla bean along with the vanilla extract (I ♥ vanilla, though).

[superbadgirl]

Yes, it's exactly right for a small (but fun) affair. Plus you can play around with it and not waste a ton of ingredients.

And, yes, 1/4 tsp. I'll edit to make that clearer. :)