DIY: Gifts for Boyfriend : Heart-Shaped Cake
They say that the shortest way to man's heart is through his stomach. Cooking and backing are arts that woman excel at (I assume!), so why do not you bake him DIY Heart-Shaped Cake? like heart cakes, kiss cakes or a cake with his name on it, the possibilities are endless here. First start by deciding what shape you want your cake to be, but for that you will need special heart-shaped pan, in case you do not have it, then you can simply make a round and a square cake, then cut the round one in half and put it around the squared one (as you will see in pictures below) to get your final shape. The thing about baking cakes is that there is no end to how creative you can be and how unique you can make your cakes, specially if you have some special pans, but if you do not, then do not worry, there are many ideas on how to do it, but they all come down to the ingredients first, so let us start by telling you the ingredients that you will need and then showing you how you can actually bake a cake and finally how to to get the hear-shaped one.
Ingredients:
for the cake:
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup buttermilk or sour cream
for the frosting:
- 1 3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 unsweetened cocoa powder
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoons vanilla extract
working steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
- Put some butter in the pan and spread it.
- Put the butter, eggs, vanilla extract, sugar, and buttermilk in a bowl and mix together.
- Put the flour, salt, cocoa powder, and baking powder in a small bowl and mix them.
- add both mixtures together.
- Pour the batter into the cake pan
- Now put it in the oven and leave it there for 30 minutes, but keep checking it to make sure it does not burn.
- Take out of the oven after it is done.
- Let it sit there for a while and cool off, before frosting, otherwise the frosting will melt.
Now just mix the frosting ingredients and spread it however you like on the cake. Check DIY Gifts For Boyfriend for more DIY Tutorials!
Now the heart-shaped cake:
