I have a thing for small sweet treats and petit fours are definitely one of them. These petit fours are made with a delicious vanilla butter cake and a home made raspberry jam filling. They are covered with a simple pink sugar icing and decorated with pink fondant roses and small piped royal icing leaves on top. A sweet little treat for Valentine’s Day.
If you find petit fours too sweet, then try to use some fruit or curd filling as this can help making the petit fours less sweet. Next time, I will try and cut three or four thin layers of cake, so that I can make them with even more fruit filling.
You can read more about how you make them in my tutorial how to make petit fours
I have also found some great video’s on YouTube:
Petit Four video part 1
Petit Four video part 2
Petit Four video part 3
Happy Caking!
Louise
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19 comments
Chelle says:
Jun 15, 2012
Can I use thinned out royal icing to coat these?
Louise says:
Jun 15, 2012
You can. Heat up the RI up a little for easier floating.
Tala Panton says:
Feb 15, 2012
Another project bites the dust! Stunning work once again…you inspire me….GIRLS ROCK!
LQ says:
Feb 11, 2012
Another beautiful creation, thanks for the inspiration!
The only question I have is do you (or anyone) know where to get the square petit four cases? I dont think that the standard round ones look as professional, and would ideally I would like foil ones, but after hours of searching the web I can only find square ones made from silicone.
Louise says:
Feb 14, 2012
I have not seen square cases. I know that some use the foil cases that are round but shape them around the petit fours. Maybe some of these shops can help you find the cases that you are looking for?
http://sweetbakingsupply.com/ http://layercakeshop.com/ https://shopsweetlulu.com/index.php http://www.bakeitpretty.com/
Jenn (Cookies Cupcakes Cardio) says:
Feb 9, 2012
Love these! I just made my first batch of petit fours a couple of weekends ago, and now I’m going to watch your videos on how I can perfect my technique!
Louise says:
Feb 10, 2012
I can really recommend one of the videos where they place the petit fours on a fork and hold it over the bowl of icing and then pour it over. That way the excess runs straight back ready for re use. It will give a few crumbs in the icing but I did not have any problems with it. As long as you have trimmed the cake for any brown crust.
Heather says:
Feb 8, 2012
So pretty! I have always been so intimidated by petit fours. Thanks for the tutorial and video links.
wendi says:
Feb 8, 2012
exquisite
Somerset wedding gal says:
Feb 7, 2012
Absolutely beautiful. If I’d made those I almost WOULDN’T want to eat them, I’d want to just sit there and admire their delicate prettiness forever! (though mine wouldn’t turn out like yours of course!)
sandra says:
Feb 6, 2012
Thank you Louise ,as ever beautiful.