The thin, miniature cakes of hotel soap had melted away by the time they finished.

As kids, their grandmother allowed them to use leftover cake batter to make miniature cakes, such as cupcakes.

By the time they reached the great room, Nynca had a tray of miniature cakes on the table, with steaming pots of both green tea and greyer tea on the old carved wooden trivets.

Kharl could detect no hint of chaos or anything untoward in the nearly clear wine, nor in the miniature cakes and pastries on the oval platters of blue-tinted porcelain.

Tompkins was wheeling in a tea cart piled high with miniature cakes.

Those miniature cakes also top a bustling salad of field greens, grilled apples, grilled pears and candied walnuts, and a larger version of the cake shows up with a forgettable rice pilaf as an entree.

Order cake at Monkey Bar, and you don't get a slice: you get an entire miniature cake.

Here you're encouraged to get dessert first, whether it's a few tartlets, a miniature cake or luminous meringue log.

These miniature cakes are more popular than ever, thanks to the designer cupcake bakeries that have cropped up in cities all over the country.