Monday, April 29, 2024

How to Make a Heart Shaped Cake

cake heart design

This propensity for healthy eating has even made its way into the baking arena, as L.A. Is a great place to get gluten-free, vegan, and artisanal birthday cakes for those who try to avoid traditional baked goods. To get this vibrant pink frosting, I simply added 1 drop of Wilton Red food coloring gel to the buttercream! If you want to use a pale pink color, learn my toothpick trick in How to Make Light Pink Frosting.

How to prepare cake layers to make a heart shaped cake

This may very well be the dreamiest cake design of all time. And ever since I discovered this hack for making heart-shaped cakes out of round cake layers, I have been making more and more with beautiful vintage piping. You never need a novelty cake pan for this design (unless you really want one). Preheat the oven, then coat two round cake pans with cooking spray and line the bottoms and sides with parchment paper. Soak cake baking strips in water, then wrap the strips around the pans after the batter goes in. Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt into the bowl of a mixer.

Chocolate Cake Layers

This cake recipe uses quite a few ingredients and I know you might not have them all on hand. Or if you have food allergies or restrictions, I’ve got you covered. Remove the French piping tip, rinse it out, then secure it onto the lightest bag of chocolate buttercream. Pipe a similar border above the dark chocolate buttercream border.

Vintage Heart Cake

cake heart design

When you feel like a baking adventure, try making this heart-inside-a-cake recipe. It’s a great way to celebrate and everyone loves the surprise inside, since you literally can’t see it until you cut a slice. Add about 3 cups of vanilla buttercream to a medium sized bowl, then divide the remaining buttercream evenly amongst three smaller bowls. The largest bowl is what you’ll be using to frost the cake, so color it whatever hue you’d like as your backdrop. With your hands coated in a little bit of vegetable shortening, knead the fondant until it’s the consistency of Play-Doh.

Since her love for cooking never faded, in 2021 she finally decided to share her recipes with the world. Laura turned her hobby into a career and loves every moment of it. Now she writes about common mistakes in the kitchen and how to avoid them, about adding twists to traditional meals, etc. Her love for trying new foods often leads her to visit restaurants and attempt to recreate the meals at home. She has been featured on F and B Recipes and BOXROX, to name a few. You can also make the frosting ahead of time or save any leftover frosting!

Laura Bais is the owner of Julie's Cafe Bakery food blog. From a young age, she had a passion for cooking, and at the age of 13, she made her first meal. After finishing high school, she undergraduates in Cultural Studies at the University of Rijeka, and graduates in Journalism at the University of Zagreb. At that time she honed her cooking skills, but also worked in marketing.

Find them stacked in colorful rows behind the old-school bakery counter. This is my 6” perfect chocolate cake batter, which also makes a 9x13” sheet cake. I cut it into 6 squares to make 6 heart cakes of one layer each. You can cut two even sized wedges off of each side of a round cake. Attach those wedges to the remaining rounded part of the cake with frosting.

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To pipe a shell border, place the tip of the bag just above the cake. Squeeze the bag, allowing the frosting to fan out as it reaches the cake. Release the pressure as you lower the tip to the surface of the cake pulling it gently away from the frosting you just piped. Overall, this is a reliable place to order birthday cake for a crowd. The LA outposts of Erin McKenna’s Bakery also does excellent cookie cakes (which are also gluten-free and vegan,) as well as charming themed cakes. (Like this cute fox cake or understated pink ombre rosette cake).

They also make cool champaign and mimosa cupcakes, which are great for parties. Cake world icon Duff Goldman brought his Baltimore-born cake business, Charm City Cakes, to Los Angeles in 2011. Since that time, he has made birthday cakes for everyone from Ozzy Ozborne to Stormi Jenner. To decorate, I like to pipe a border using a large star tip and bright pink frosting (formula below), then finish it off with some Valentine-themed sprinkles. Start at either the tip of the heart or the indent between the two bulges and spin the cake to smooth the frosting. Make sure you push the comb into the indent between the bulges to really define that part of the heart.

If you’re frosting several cakes at once like I am, it’s quicker to do a plain white crumb coat and then tint the frosting for each cake after that. This cake design is ever so slightly revamped (don’t mind my terrible pre-DSLR food photography in this original photo), but in the best way. I ended up ditching the conversation hearts and adding in those extras instead.

Now clean up the loaf pan and make the outside cake batter. Fill the pan a half-inch and insert the frozen hearts standing upright while you pour in the rest of the batter. It should just cover completely, leaving an inch from the top of the pan to allow for expansion. Bake again for minutes until a toothpick or cake tester comes out clean. Valentine’s Day is like the Christmas of desserts for me. I love the vibe during those few days leading up to the big finale and I get absolutely crazy with cake decorating ideas.

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