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    Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake

    Published: Jan 24, 2022 · by Kim Lange · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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    Making a special occasion cake doesn’t have to be complicated or intimidating. With this beautiful Heart-Shaped Valentine’s Day cake, you can easily impress your special someone with a unique, delicious treat!

    Learn how to bake and decorate a heart-shaped cake for the perfect holiday celebration of love and Valentine's Day!  You'll love this roundup of 25 Drool-Worthy Red Velvet Dessert Recipes, these Valentine Milk Chocolate Brownie Bites and Valentine Chocolate Bark.

     

    How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake

    How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake is a romantic dessert that no one will be able to resist! This is great for after your family dinner, for your favorite friends, teacher or significant other or for Valentine's Day at work! 

    Randomly placed pastel and vivid rich colors of pinks, red and white compliment the cake so beautifully and it was super easy to put it all together. Once we got the cakes baked and assembled to make a heart-shape, we made frosting and placed the different colors of frostings in pastry bags! 

    Using large assorted star tips make the pretty tips look like a lovely piece of cake art!  Are you ready to make this simple cake?

    Equipment You'll Need

    • 1 8" round pan
    • 1 8" square pan
    • Star piping tips with pastry bags
    • 3-4 Gel food coloring choices

    Gather Your Ingredients

    Heart Shaped Cake

    • 1 box cake mix of choice, like strawberry, red velvet, chocolate, vanilla, etc.
    • Use ingredients called out by cake mix directions or use your own recipe Just be sure to use a recipe that yields enough for a two-layer cake.

    Buttercream Frosting or if using your own frosting have enough frosting to frost a 2 layer cake

    • unsalted or salted butter, softened or room temperature
    • salt, if using unsalted butter
    • powdered sugar
    • vanilla
    • milk of choice
    • 3-4 Food color gels of choice

    Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake

    Make & Bake the Cakes

    1. Use your favorite cake mix or recipe for this recipe and frost it using any tips you want to fill in the top and sides of the heart shaped cake.  I used a strawberry cake mix, but you could use this these home-made white, chocolate or red velvet cakes for this recipe, as well as cake mix variations.  Just be sure to use a recipe that yields enough for a two-layer cake. If you want a double layer cake, you'll have to double the ingredients for your cake recipe.  This cake yields a large 1 layer cake.
    2. Prepare the cake mix as directed on the back of the box or whatever cake recipe you are using.  Pour half of the batter into a 8-inch square pan and the other half in an 8" round pan. Eye ball the cake batter to make sure the thickness of it in each pan looks similar. (If you have a heart pan, and want to use that instead, go for it.)
    3. Bake for 26 to 31 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cakes come out clean. 
    4. Once the cakes have been baked, keep the cake in its pan and let it cool on a rack for the time the recipe specifies.  Usually 15-20 minutes - before attempting to remove it.  Once you've removed the cakes from the pans, let them continue cooling or refrigerate until ready to frost, sealed tightly in saran wrap.

    Making the Heart-Shape

    1. Once cooled, you can then easily assemble the cakes into the shape of a heart. 
    2. Cut the circle cake in half evenly.  
    3. Position the square cake so it looks like a diamond, then place each half of the circle cake.
    4. Place the assembled cake on a large plate or cake board. 

     

    How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake

    How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake

    How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake

    How to Make & Frost Valentine's Day Cake

    1. Frost it using any tips you want to fill in the top and sides of the cake. I used these awesome Star Tips from Suuker. 
    2. Using mixer, beat the butter until creamy.  Add salt, powdered sugar, vanilla and some milk and whip together on medium to high and beat until smooth and cream. 
    3. Take 4 bowls and divide frosting out into 4 bowls.  Add food color gels of choice and make them as vibrant, pastel or whatever you like. Mix the gel into the frosting and add more gel as needed to get colors desired. 
    4. Spoon frostings into 3-4 pastry bags with any large star tips or flower tips of choice.  These Russian Piping Tips are also beautiful for easy pipeable flowers.  
    5. Start frosting the border of the cake first, and then start filling in the top, piping with one frosting color randomly, continuing with the rest of the frostings until you have filled the top with frosting. Once it's filled in, add some sprinkles, candies, strawberries or raspberries if you like. 

    How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake

    How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake

    With a few simple ingredients and directions, anyone can make their own special Valentine’s Day cake. So start preheating the oven and let’s get baking!

    Show your loved one how much you care with semi-homemade heart-shaped Valentine’s Day cake. Once the cake is done and ready to cut into, hopefully there's a nice card, champagne, Valentine candies or maybe a bouquet of flowers to make it a perfect Valentine's Day!  

    Don't forget Mother's Day or anytime you want to show love, this cake will 'wow'!! Love decorating? You'll love these Easy Melted Snowman Cookies too!

    More Valentine's Day Desserts

    • Red Velvet Levain Cookies
    • Valentine's Day Roundup of Desserts
    • Chocolate Heart Peanut Butter Cookies
    • 10 Dreamy Valentine Desserts
    • Fudgy Brownie Cookies
    • 17 Valentine Treats to Swoon Over
    • Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cheesecake Bites
    • Valentine Chocolate Peanut Butter Hearts
    How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake

    How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake

    Kim Lange
    Nothing completes Valentine's Day desserts more than a beautiful heart-shaped cake for Valentine's Day. It's a romantic dessert that no one will be able to resist!
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    Servings 12 Servings
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    Equipment

    • 1 8" round pan
    • 1 8" square pan
    • Star piping tips with pastry bags
    • 3-4 Gel food coloring choices

    Ingredients
      

    Heart Shaped Cake

    • 1 box cake mix of choice like strawberry, red velvet, chocolate, vanilla, etc.
    • Use ingredients called out by cake mix directions or use your own recipe Just be sure to use a recipe that yields enough for a two-layer cake.

    Buttercream Frosting or if using your own frosting have enough frosting to frost a 2 layer cake

    • 1 ½ cups or 2 ½ sticks of butter softened or room temperature
    • ½ teaspoon salt if using unsalted butter
    • 5-7 cups of powdered sugar
    • 1 tablespoon vanilla
    • 3 tablespoons to ¼ cup milk of choice
    • 3-4 Food color gels of choice

    Instructions
     

    Heart Shaped Cake

    • Use your favorite cake mix or recipe for this recipe and frost it using any tips you want to fill in the top and sides of the cake. I used a strawberry cake mix, but you could use this these home-made white, chocolate or red velvet cakes for this recipe, as well as cake mix variations. Just be sure to use a recipe that yields enough for a two-layer cake. If you want a double layer cake, you'll have to double the ingredients for your cake recipe. This cake yields a large 1 layer cake.
    • Prepare the cake mix as directed on the back of the box or whatever cake recipe you are using. Pour half of the batter into a 8-inch square pan and the other half in an 8" round pan. Eye ball the cake batter to make sure the thickness of it in each pan looks similar.
    • Bake for 26 to 31 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cakes come out clean.
    • Once the cakes have been baked, keep the cake in its pan and let it cool on a rack for the time the recipe specifies. Usually 15-20 minutes - before attempting to remove it. Once you've removed the cakes from the pans, let them continue cooling or refrigerate until ready to frost, sealed tightly in saran wrap.
      How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake
    • Once cooled, you can then easily assemble the cakes into the shape of a heart.
    • Cut the circle cake in half evenly.
    • Position the square cake so it looks like a diamond, then place each half of the circle cake.
      How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake
    • Place the assembled cake on a large plate or cake board.

    Buttercream Frosting or if using your own frosting have enough frosting to frost a 2 layer cake

    • Frost it using any tips you want to fill in the top and sides of the cake. I used these awesome Star Tips from Suuker.
    • Using mixer, beat the butter until creamy. Add salt, powdered sugar, vanilla and some milk and whip together on medium to high and beat until smooth and cream.
    • Take 4 bowls and divide frosting out into 4 bowls. Add food color gels of choice and make them as vibrant, pastel or whatever you like. Mix the gel into the frosting and add more gel as needed to get colors desired.
    • Spoon frostings into 3-4 pastry bags with any large star tips or flower tips of choice. These Russian Piping Tips are beautiful for easy pipeable flowers.
    • Start frosting the border of the cake first, and then start filling in the top, piping stars with one frosting color randomly, continuing with the rest of the frostings until you have filled the top with frosting. Once it's filled in, add some sprinkles, candies, strawberries or raspberries if you like.

    Notes

    Food coloring in frosting may bleed after a day or 2 after it's frosted.  It's best to frost it the same day you are serving it, after letting the frosting firm up. 
    Keyword buttercream frosting, cake, heart-shaped, valentine's day
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    How to Make a Heart-Shaped Valentine's Day Cake
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