Easy Valentine’s Day Food Recipe: Heart-Shaped Cake

Once again we’re entering the month of love and romance and what better way to show your loved ones how much you care than with a handmade surprise?

At the top of the list is a heart-shaped cake – it’s perfect for Valentine’s Day, and when made with your own two hands, it’s truly a gift that comes from the heart!

You can go for a much-beloved chocolate chiffon cake or a simple sponge cake with sprinkles. You can even go all out and create a layered cake decorated with frosting, filled with whipped cream and covered with layers of ganache!

It all depends on your preference but the most important thing is that you have fun while you bake!

Everything you need is available at Puri Pangan Utama, Bali’s best bakery ingredient and supplier online.

Here’s your Valentine food recipe for an easy and irresistible vanilla cake with pink frosting.

Cake:

• 400 grams white sugar
• 200 grams unsalted butter, softened
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons almond extract
• 4 large eggs
• 360 grams  all-purpose flour
• 76 grams cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• ¾ teaspoon salt
• 354 ml of milk

Frosting:

• 400 grams unsalted butter, softened
• 4 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1890 grams powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons whole milk, or more as needed
• 2 drops red food coloring, or as desired
• 2 drops yellow food coloring, or as desired
• Sprinkles as needed

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C. Grease pan and line with parchment or wax paper. Grease paper and dust lightly with flour.
2. Beat white sugar, butter, vanilla, and almond extract in a large bowl with an electric mixer on high speed until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, until well combined.
3. Stir flour, cornstarch, baking powder, and salt together in another bowl.
4. Beat the dry ingredients into wet ingredients until just combined. Add the milk; beat until combined.
5. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 to 50 minutes. Cool in pan on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove from the pan and cool completely on racks.
6. Make the frosting: Beat butter and vanilla together in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until combined, about 30 seconds.
7. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating after each addition and adding milk as needed, until frosting is fluffy, smooth, and spreadable.
8. Remove 45 grams of frosting and divide between 2 small bowls. Tint 1 dark pink with red food coloring. Tint the other orange-pink with red and yellow food coloring. Tint remaining frosting light pink with red food coloring.
9. Cover the cake with pink frosting. Drop spoonfuls of dark pink and pink-orange frosting onto the cake and drag a spatula through frosting to create a marbled look.
10. Pat sprinkles onto the sides of the cake. Chill, covered, for up to 3 days. Let stand at room temperature 30 minutes before slicing.

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