hazelchaz | Baking little cakes: Half a cake, half a cake, half a cake onward

Okay, the househould now has chocolate cake again. And I've successfully used the square mini bakeware. Here's what I bought, where I managed to completely miss the word "MINI" in the name of the item. Mini Square Silicone Reusable Baking Cups (If I don't get any more bakeware for my birthday, I'm thinking in September I'll send away for another dozen.)

I baked 12 square and 24 round mini cupcakes. Interesting note: the mini cupcakes take about 1 TB of batter each, while the squares are closer to almost 2 TB capacity. So it all worked out. Half a cake recipe.

Mind you, the frosting was a mitigated disaster. I haven't had any training in piping frosting onto cakes. Something I learned the hard way tonight: use as large a zip bag as you can find with a small snip off the corner. Quart-size just doesn't cut it. I piped frosting onto as many as I could before discarding the bag and going back to using a couple of butter knives to dump lumps of frosting on them. So some of them are prettier than others!