Sunday 8 February 2015

Valentine's Cakes

Valentine's Cake

This is a really easy method which makes a beautiful looking and tasting cake that will impress your Valentine this February 14th.

This starts with a basic sponge cake. Now you can choose whatever flavour you want: chocolate fudge, lemon, even brownies will work with this.

All you do is make your cake. You can make it in a round tin, but you will only get about 4 hearts out of it so if you want more you might want to bake it in a rectangular tray instead.

Once the cake is cooked and cooled you need to simply use a heart shaped cookie cutter and slice through the cake. If your cake has risen a lot then just use a knife to help cut it down; most cutters should fit.

As I used a plain sponge I wanted to fill it with jam and cream like mini Victoria sponges.

The decorating is up to you, but I wanted to have a pink icing that trickled all down the edges. You need to make your icing into a thick consistency to help have a solid colour but you need it to also run down the edges. just try it out and if it is too runny; add more icing sugar.

I did one layer of icing then left it to set and did another so that the cake was covered well and that the colour was really clear.