Vanilla/Chocolate Mini Bundt Cakes

These mini Bundt cakes can be vanilla and chocolate marbled, just vanilla, or just chocolate! Also, the bottoms usually close up so its like a little frosting holder! Just perfect. In the picture I used a mint buttercream and topped each with an edible mint leaf from Italy! Original recipe page from: https://preppykitchen.com/mini-bundt-cakes/

Ingredients

For the Cake:

2 cups flour
1/4 cup cornstarch
2 1/2 tsps baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup sour cream at room temperature
1/4 cup whole milk at room temperature
1 cup salted butter at room temperature
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 large eggs at room temperature
1 large egg yolk at room temperature
2 tsp bourbon
vanilla bean

For the Chocolate Marbling:

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tbsp milk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325°F degrees and position rack in the center. Butter and flour a mini Bundt pan.
2. Pour bourbon into a small bowl. Scrape seeds from vanilla bean into bourbon; stir to blend well (reserve scraped vanilla bean for another use like infusing sugar).
3. Whisk flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda and salt in medium bowl to blend.
4. Using an electric mixer, beat butter, sour cream and sugar in large bowl until light and fluffy.
5. Add eggs and egg yolk to the butter mixture one at a time, beating until well blended after each addition. Beat in bourbon-vanilla mixture (or the vanilla extract).
6. Add dry mixture in 2 additions alternating with milk in 1 addition, beating just until blended after each addition.
7. Split batter in half.
8. Add cocoa powder and milk to second batter and mix until incorporated.
9. Add the batter to the mini bundt pan, and marble (or not) however you wish.
10. Bake mini bundts for 20-25 minutes until tester inserted near center comes out clean.
11. Cool in pan on rack 10 minutes. Invert bundts onto rack and cool completely.

RECIPE NOTES;

If you don’t want to use bourbon or a vanilla bean, just omit those two and use 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, and skip Step 2. If you would like ALL chocolate bundt cakes; double chocolate marbling mix and don’t split batter in half, just add it to the whole thing. If you just want vanilla omit the chocolate marbling mix COMPLETELY.