Sweet Heart's Cake
Submitted by wm1993
A show-stopping heart-shaped cake for Valentine’s Day made from one square and one round cake, frosted in pink vanilla buttercream and covered in tinted coconut. Decorated with gumdrop hearts and fruit roll bows.
YIELD
1 cakePREP
30 minCOOK
20 minREADY
30 minNo fancy heart-shaped pan required. This clever trick uses one square cake and one round cake cut in half to build a gorgeous heart shape that looks way harder than it actually is.
The whole thing gets coated in homemade vanilla buttercream tinted pink with red food coloring, then showered in pink-tinted flaked coconut for that fluffy, romantic look.
Flattened gumdrops cut into tiny hearts and fruit roll strips shaped into bows top it all off. It’s the kind of cake that makes everyone at the table gasp before they grab a fork.
Kitchen Tips
- Chill your cakes before assembling. Cold cake is firmer and much easier to frost without crumbling
- Use a dab of frosting as glue between the square and round halves so nothing slides apart
- Tint the coconut in a zip-top bag with a few drops of food coloring and shake until evenly pink
- Roll the gumdrops flat between sheets of wax paper dusted with powdered sugar to prevent sticking
Ingredients
Directions
For frosting: Beat powdered sugar, butter, milk, and vanilla with a mixer on low until well blended and smooth.
Sweet heart cake: Tint buttercream frosting pink using red food coloring.
Tint coconut pink using red food coloring.
Leave square cake whole.
Cut round cake in half.
Using a small amount of frosting to hold pieces together, arrange cake on serving tray with one half round cake on one flat side of square cake, repeating process, at right angles of square cake thus making a heart.
Frost cake over all with remaining frosting.
Sprinkle with coconut.
Flatten red and white gumdrops with rolling pin.
Cut into 2-inch heart shapes with a small cookie cutter or knife.
Decorate center of cake with heart cut-outs.
Cut fruit snack roll, flattened out, into strips.
Make a bow and place with hearts in center of cake.
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