A beautiful heart-shaped cake is an excellent and appropriate gift for your loved ones on Valentine's Day. For beginners, it may seem difficult to bake a cake with an intricate shape, but it is not. There are several quick ways to make a heart-shaped cake.
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Option number 1 - special form
The most affordable way to make a heart-shaped cake is to bake a sponge cake in the appropriate frame. The baking dish can be silicone, ceramic, detachable or plug-in adjustable. For baking, it is desirable to use a form with high sides, then the cake will turn out high. If the form does not have a high rim, then you can bake 2-3 cakes. Even experienced confectioners advise, with a low shape, to make borders from several layers of foil.
You can bake a biscuit according to your favorite recipe. If there is none, then a lush and tasty cake will turn out if you use the following products:
- 4 squirrels;
- 4 yolks;
- vinegar - 1 incomplete tsp;
- salt - a pinch;
- granulated sugar - 120 g;
- vegetable oil - 30 g;
- milk - 40 g;
- vanillin or lemon juice to taste.
Chilled proteins are combined with salt and a bite, whisk until doubled in volume. Without turning off the mixer, sugar is poured in parts and whipped to a dense mass. After the whisk, they drive in flour, yolks, a mixture of milk and butter. The finished dough is poured into a mold, the approximate size of which is 18–20 cm. Bake for 35–38 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
If you add a little red food coloring to the biscuit dough, you can bake an unusual cake for Valentine's Day a la red velvet.
Option number 2 - Cut from two biscuits
If there is no ready-made form in the form of a loving heart and for some reason there is no desire to acquire it, then you can build a cake from 2 ready-made biscuits. In this case, bake one sponge cake in the shape of a square, the second in the shape of a circle. Moreover, the diameter of a round biscuit in its size should be equal to the side of the square. Cut the circle exactly in half, turn the square biscuit and become in the form of a rhombus. Put the halves of the round biscuit on the upper two sides of the square, the folded shape will begin to resemble a heart.
You can decorate the cake with a ready-made marshmallow mastic or “Ice cream” cream, which turns out to be delicate, tasty and keeps its shape perfectly. To prepare the cream "Ice cream", use the following ingredients:
- milk - 380 ml;
- sugar - 150-180 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- cream 33% - 1 cup;
- butter (fat content from 82.5%) - 100 g;
- starch - 2-3 tbsp. l
To begin with, starch is mixed with sugar and eggs, carefully rubbing into an emulsion. They warm the milk to a hot state, then pour it in parts into the egg-sugar mixture, preventing it from clotting. The mixture is put on a small fire and boiled until thick sour cream. It turns into a custard, which is well-cooled, and then softened butter and whipped cream are driven into it in parts.
Option number 3 - draw a heart cake
If your chosen one does not mind tasting meringues with cream, then in a short time you can bake a Pavlova cake in the shape of a heart. Use baking paper and a simple pencil. Draw on paper not as usual a circle, but a big heart. Turning the paper over, start filling the resulting form with whipped proteins, remembering to leave a hole in the middle to fill it with cream and fruit.
The classic Pavlova cake recipe includes the following products:
- 4 egg whites
- icing sugar –200 g;
- corn starch - 1 tbsp;
- white vinegar - 1 tablespoon
Chilled proteins are whipped with vinegar and starch, gradually pouring icing sugar. The result is a dense mass of boiling white. For cream, you can use whipped cream with sugar fat content of 33%. Decorate the most delicious Pavlova cake with any bright and sweet fruits and berries.