Mini Patisserie with mini food recipes
There is something about miniatures that fascinates me. I never had a dolls house as a kid. But that didn’t stop me. I turned a bookshelf into a mini room and made a little bed, stitched a mini cross stitch pillow, and was delighted to find some of my grandmothers doll house furniture stashed away in storage.
The fun doesn’t have to stop when you get older. Make a miniature world and watch the delight on young ones faces as they indulge, imagine and play. This project would be so much fun for a little one if, for whatever reason, you were not having a birthday party. Invite over one special friend to eat at the patisserie.
Mini Food Recipes
Mini Cupcakes Recipe
Mini Brownies Recipe
Use the leftover cupcake mixture and spread into a small brownie tin. Bake at 180C (356 degrees Fahrenheit) until firm.
Mini Macarons
Use my macaron recipe
If you’ve never made macarons watch the macaron trouble shooting guide video first.
Mini Cakes
3 eggs
25g (0.88 ounces) or 2 Tbsp butter
20g (0.71 ounces) or 1 Tbsp plus 1 tsp milk (4% fat)
10g (0.35 ounces) or 1 Tbsp plus 1 tsp cocoa powder
80g (2.82 ounces) or 1/3 cup plus 2 tsp sugar
10g (0.35 ounces) or 1½ tsp glucose syrup
1/2 tsp vanilla
50g (1.76 ounces) or 1/3 cup plain or all purpose flour
1/8 tsp baking powder
Add the butter and the milk to the cocoa powder and melt it.
Whip together the eggs, sugar, glucose syrup and vanilla until they are thick then add some of that egg mixture to the cocoa mixture to make it thinner & easier to combine.
Fold all of the cocoa mixture through the eggs until it is fairly well combined. Then sift the flour and baking powder on top. And fold that through too making sure you can’t see any more flour.
Using a plastic bag with the corner cut off pipe some mixture into each of the cupcake cases (see the video from instructions on how to make the tiny cases). Bake at 180C (356 degrees Fahrenheit) for approximately 5 minutes.
Mini Fruit Tarts
Pastry
30g (1.06 ounces) or 2 Tbsp plus 1 tsp butter
75g (2.65 ounces) or 1/2 cup plain or all purpose flour
12g (0.42 ounces) or 1 Tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp water
Filling – fruit jams (jellys) or preserves of your choice.
Rub the butter into the flour until it resembles breadcrumbs. Mix through the sugar then add the water and knead to form a ball.
Roll out, cut circles and place into a greased mini muffin tin. Bake at 180C (356 degrees Fahrenheit) for approximately 5 minutes or until golden. Heat the fruit preserves until just bubbling then spoon into the pastry cases.
How to Make Bakery Furniture
You will need
My template design for the miniature dollshouse bakery furniture
2 x Medium balsa wood 91.5cm (36.02 inches) x 10cm (3.94 inches) x 0.25cm (0.1 inches)
1 x Thin balsa wood 91.5cm (36.02 inches) x 10cm (3.94 inches) x 0.15cm (0.06 inches)
2 x balsa wood strips 0.25cm (0.1 inches) x 0.25cm (0.1 inches) x 91.5cm (36.02 inches)
White Paint
Teal paint
Hot glue gun and clear glue sticks
A cardboard box 12.7×21.7cm (8.54 inches)
12 empty matchboxes
12 pretty beads for the handles
Follow the instructions in the video to make the furniture.
DOLLS HOUSE PRINTABLES
Books
These cute little cookbooks were created by gingerslittlehouse
Just print out the covers and then hot glue in some blank pages to the spine.
Bags
I printed the bakery bags from american girl ideas. And then covered it with wide clear tape to make it look glossy.
Miniature Cake Sign
After much searching to find the original source for this one I finally found it. It is not a miniature at all but a beautiful larger hand painted artwork by the very talented every day is a holiday. The artwork I used is on their flikr here
My Cookbook
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All recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.
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how long do you cook the mini macarons for?
what kind of sugar did you use in making the mini tarts?if it is granulated can i use icing sugar?
Hi Cristina, Ann used caster sugar or in some places it is called superfine sugar.
Hello Ann rear don sorry if I spelled your name wrong can you make the furniture with cardboard.
Hi Neil, Well I guess you could but it may not be particularly stable. The fiber board available at craft stores may be another option if you can’t get hold of balsa wood.
i love your idia it is fantastic from Dilys
Hi Ann can you use a vanilla mix instead of coconut powder?
Hi! You are ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! I would like to know how much butter, icing sugar, and cocoa goes into the icing! Thanks
~HoppyPopppy
Hi Ann,
Can I omit the glucose syrup?
Thanks!
It looks great and fun. Can you make a mini pet store.
This is great! This will totally blow people’s minds! It is so small and cute!
Thank you!
Wow and wow! You are a blessed and talented lady. I’m trying to make same desserts for my wedding and I’d like to know how to make the dust/ icing in this dessert? Thanks. Sonia
Hi Sonia, this looks like it is coated with sprayed cocoa butter that has been coloured. This is not easy to do at home. You need a proper catering spray gun for this (not one that has been used for painting. Ann has tried using a spray bottle and some other alternatives that would be easily available to home cooks and they just don’t give an even and attractive result. It is usually only restaurants or caters that can afford to have a spray gun set up totally for and dedicated to cooking purposes.
Thank you. I am going to try to create this for the little ones in my family. Is the frosting recipe butter and powdered sugar?
Yes Ashley, Ann just used butter and icing sugar (powdered sugar). You can colour or flavour this to suit your preferences.
U need to do many more different one of these I apsolutly love!
Hi Ann, my daughter Lilly (10) was so inspired by this video that she created her own little bakery. She has asked me to share a photo with you 🙂
Gorgeous, Lily has done such a marvelous job it looks amazing.
Hello Ann can you make a mini pizza chef room from world chef
are the mini tart things considered a desert?
like are they really sweet or are they jut kinda well, not sweet?
Hi Sparkle yes they are sweet, like jam tarts.
Can you make the miniature shelfs out of something else then wood
Carboard
Paper
Also can you make something to do with cadburys world(in Birmingham,UK)
Many thanks Aamina
Hi Aamina, Yes, you can use thick cardboard instead of wood, But you may not be able to paint it – some cardboard will bend with he dampness of the paint. So perhaps get card that is in the colour you want.
My daughter freaked out when she saw this, she loves miniatures too. Also the doll furniture is genius!
can you do an edible cookie dough recipe? Thanks!! 🙂
Hi CadburyLover101, yes, it is here not he cookie dough ice-cream recipe https://www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/best-homemade-icecream-recipes/
You are incredible – well done 🙂
Please continue to send recipes and ideas!
Soooooooooooooo cute
You are amazing…simply adorable…everything you is wonderful. Such talent!
I love these recipes and this idea! I was just wondering what the mini pastry tart recipe was! Thanks!
Hi Gretchen, Ann calls them mini-fruit tarts on the blog. You will find the recipe between the Mini-cake recipe and the instructions on how to make the furniture.