Recipe and photo credits- Baking Mad
Mini Heart-Shaped Chocolate Cake.
How sweet are these Mini Heart-Shaped Chocolate Cakes? Perfect for baking your loved one something special this Valentine’s Day!?
How To Make Mini Heart-Shaped Chocolate Cake:
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Baking Time: 30 minutes
Portions 4
Ingredients:
- 125 grams Chocolate, good quality dark
- 3 tbsp Milk
- 150 grams Butter softened
- 150 grams Billington’s Golden Caster Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- 200 grams Allinson Nature Friendly Plain White Flour
- 1 tbsp Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 0.25 tsp Bicarbonate Of Soda
- 100 grams Silver Spoon Create White Chocolate Flavour Cake Covering
- 140 grams Butter
- 140 grams Billington’s Golden Icing Sugar
- Food clourings and sweets to fininsh
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C, Fan oven 160°C /gas 4.
- Butter and flour the sides of four 10 cm heart shaped tins and line the bases with greaseproof paper.
For The Cake:
- Snap the chocolate into chunks and place in a bowl.
- Add the milk and sit the bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering water and heat until the chocolate has melted.
- (Make sure the bottom of the bowl doesn’t touch the surface of the water.)
- Set aside to cool slightly.
- Beat the butter until very soft then add the caster sugar and continue to beat until the mixture is pale and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time, and then fold in the melted chocolate.
- Sift in the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and the bicarbonate of soda, and fold in gently to mix.
- Divide the mixture between the tins and bake in the oven for 25 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the middle of each cake comes out clean.
- Remove the cakes from the oven and allow to sit for five minutes before turning them out of their tins and placing them on a wire rack to cool.
- When cool slice the cake in half.
- For the chocolate butter icing Melt the chocolate in the microwave on High for 1½ minute, stirring halfway.
- Leave to cool.
- Beat the butter and icing sugar in a large bowl until creamy.
- Beat in the chocolate until smooth.
- Spread the butter icing on the bottom half of the cake and sandwich with the other half.
- Make some coloured icing Sugar and decorate with sweets.
Recipe and photo credits- Baking Mad
What do you think about these Mini Heart-Shaped Chocolate
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OMG! These are just adorable. I am pinning!I would love to be able to get you more exposure to more wonderful posts like this.
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@Carli thank you 🙂 going to check out your blog 🙂
Pinned this one! So cute!
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@Michelle thanks for pinning,I have pinterest just got to work how to use it 🙂
These are so adorable!!!! Absolutely love them!
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Thanks for the comment Maria 🙂
Amazing!! I hope you will link this up to I Heart Projects Linky Party.
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Thanks for the invite of now to join in 🙂
These look great!
They are just gorgeous! Great job!
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@Jill thanks for the comment 🙂
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@Lyuba thanks for stopping by and the comment 🙂
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@Jill thanks for the comment 🙂
These are so cute! I love them! I just pinned them. Thanks so much for stopping by Check ME Out Saturday link party!
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Hi Bobbie thank yo so much for the pinning 🙂
Oh yum. So delicious and they are beautifully decorated!
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Hi Meg thanks for stopping by :0)
Featuring on Thursday at Bacon Time 🙂
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Hi Mindie,thank you 🙂
These cute cakes look fab! Love it! ^^
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Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment 🙂
Extremely beautiful and very romanticI like it!
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Hi Winnie thanks for stopping by 🙂