A bite-size cake which is topped with sweet things called a small cake. In another word, it is known as petit fours. Basically, this is a typical french word and also includes savory bite-sized appetizers and other small pastries like macarons and meringues. Petit four is translated as “small oven.” Small cakes are generally, between 5cm and 10cm.
A small cake is a personalized cake that you can give to someone and surprise them without sharing with anyone. There is four types of petit fours sable beurre, palmiers, duchesses, and macarons. They might also have a jam, ganache, or dried fruit filling. This variety has many customizations, like flavors, frostings, fillings, size, and many more. On any occasion, you can use these small cakes as, Cake Pops. Cake French toast, Ice Cream Mix-Ins, Cake Shakes, Trifle, Grilled Cake, Not-Bread Puddings, Crumbled-Cake Pie Crusts. It probably goes without saying, but cake pops are the cutest possible use for leftover cake.
Below all cakes are types of small cakes:
Butter Cake
Pound Cake
Sponge Cake
Genoise Cake
Biscuit Cake
Angel Food Cake
Chiffon Cake
Baked Flourless Cake.