Here you will find a delicious mini cake recipe from French cuisine. Be sure to try these mini cakes. They are an absolute hit, taste unbelievably fluffy and extremely good.
The mini cake is a traditional French pastry. There is the mini cake as the fresh (petits fours frais) and once the dry petits fours ( petits fours secs ).


Ingredients for our mini cakes
- 2 packets of vanilla sugar
- 500ml milk
- 50g butter
- 3 eggs
- 150g sugar (icing sugar)
- 150g almond flour
- 20ml rum flavor
- Butter (for brushing molds)
This is how you like to eat the mini cake…
This traditional mini cake from France is particularly delicious and simply fits on every coffee table. Whether at Christmas, Easter, birthdays or similar, you are always a welcome guest. If you’ve got a taste for it now, I have more French recipes for you that you might like. For example, you will find and love the traditional potato gratin , the delicious leek cream soup and the typical French ratatouille vegetables ! For dessert, I can recommend the quick cake with few ingredients . Both are very fluffy and taste incredibly good!    Â
Have fun trying it out and bon appetit!
Step by step guide
Step 1
Bring the butter and milk to the boil and then leave to cool.
Step 2
Beat the sugar with the egg until fluffy. Then gradually add the flour. Slowly stir in the milk.
In the end, a viscous dough should form.
Step 3
Then add the rum and let the dough rest in the fridge overnight.
Step 4
The next day fill the dough into molds.
Step 5
Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for about 30 minutes until golden brown.
Bon appetit!