She came home from hospital with me on Valentine’s Day thirteen years ago and she was a Valentine’s present I will never be able to surpass!
Ingredients
190 g Plain Flour
2 tbsps Cocoa Powder
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp baking powder
150g Caster Sugar
2 tbsps Golden Syrup
2 Eggs, beaten
150ml Rapeseed Oil
150ml Milk
200g Silver Spoon Milk Chocolate Flavour Cake Covering (this is the bit which makes it super quick, if you want something more elegant and sophisticated make up some chocolate butter cream)
I used these three lovely silicon heart shaped ‘tins’ which I picked up in the Sainsbury’s sale last year but if you haven’t got any heart shaped tins this is enough to fill two 20cm sandwich tins or their equivalent.
Method
- Preheat the oven to 160°C
- If you are using tins, grease and base line them, the silicon doesn’t need this
- Sift the flour, cocoa, bicarb and baking powder into a large bowl
- Add the sugar and stir to incorporate
- Make a well in the middle and beat in the rest of the ingredients with a balloon whisk
- Pour into the prepared tins and bake for 30 -35 minutes until a metal skewer poked into the middle of the cake comes out clean and the cake is nice and springy on top.
- Turn onto a wire rack to cool.
- Break the chocolate into pieces in a bowl set over a pan of boiling water
- Spoon and spread the chocolate (or butter cream) over the cake using it to glue the layers together first if you are making a heart tower.
- Decorate as you wish. I used Dr Oetker’s Wafer Daisies
- If you are as messy as me you can transfer your creation from the splodgy chocolatey zone to a crisp clean plate for presentation, candles and song.
i think this is so clever – such a sweet idea for a 3D cake. i can imagine it working well for a girl’s birthday cake covered in pink icing and lots of pretty edible flowers and glittery things!
thank you for linking up too. xx
That cake makes me feel happy!
Such a simple idea but so original and effective. It looks brill.
Tasted pretty good too 😉 x
Oooooh, looks lovely! Definitely doesn’r scream ‘quick and easy’! I’ll pass the recipe on to my fella as it’s my birthday on valentines day 😉 xx
Perfect! Do let me know how he gets on! 🙂 xxx