Romance is like an icing in the cake of love😉😍
Lets bake Hidden Heart Cake for this Valentine\\\’s Day to surprise your loved one🥰❤️
Ingredients…
For the cake
– 2 x 175g unsalted butter,
– 2 x 175g golden caster sugar,
– 6 large eggs,
– 2 x 140g self-raising flour,
– 2 x ½ tsp Bakers Street baking powder,
– 3 tbsp Bakers Street cocoa powder,
– 2 x 85g ground almond,
– 2 x 100ml milk,
– 3 tsp vanilla extract,
– 28ml bottle red food colouring or ½ tsp red food colouring gel,
For the icing
– 100ml double cream,
– 200g dark chocolate,
– 50g unsalted butter,
– pink sprinkles,
Method…
1. Heat oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Grease a 900g loaf tin and line with a long strip of baking parchment. Cream 175g butter and 175g sugar until light and fluffy. Beat 3 of the eggs and pour in, a little at a time, mixing after each addition. Sift together 140g flour, 1⁄2 tsp baking powder and the cocoa, then fold into the butter mixture along with the almonds. Combine 100ml milk, 11⁄2 tsp vanilla and all the food colouring and add to the batter, then mix until evenly coloured.
2. Pour into the prepared loaf tin and bake for 1 hr 10 mins until a skewer comes out clean. Cool for 10 mins in the tin, then transfer to a wire rack. When cool, cut the cake into 4cm slices. Using a 5cm cutter, stamp out the hearts (save any remaining cake for another treat).
3. Repeat step 1 to make a second cake mixture – you won’t have cocoa or food colour in this batch. Pour 3⁄4 of the mixture into the prepared loaf tin. Push the bottoms of the hearts into the batter in a tightly packed row. Spoon over the remaining cake mixture, covering as much of the hearts as possible. bake for 1 hr or until a skewer comes out clean. Cool for 10 mins in the tin, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
4. For the icing, gently heat all the ingredients over a low heat until combined. Leave to cool, then chill until needed. Spread over the cooled cake and decorate with the sprinkles, if using. Will keep for 3 days stored in a cake tin.
