Miniature Cake Petits Fours

A petit four can be virtually any miniature sweet thing— never more than a bite or two—usually served after dinner with coffee. Professional pastry chefs divide petits fours into two types: dry petits fours, which are really just miniature cookies, and fresh petits fours, which are miniature cakes or tarts. The miniature cakes are presented here, and two other fresh petits fours can be found in chapter 2—one kind consists of miniature pastry shells cooked