Valentines Day Cake

To make a Valentines Day cake, use your favourite cake recipe, buy an unfilled sponge or make our family favourite chocolate cake and decorate it with red icing and chocolates.

Ingredients

One cake of your choice
2 cups icing sugar
Red food colouring
Hot water
Heart shaped chocolates

Method

1. Bake your cake in a square or round tin that is large enough for you to be able to cut a heart shape out of it.
2. While the cake is cooking, cut a heart shaped template out of baking paper or clean cardboard
3. Let the cake cool then cut it to a heart shape using your template
4. Make the icing with icing sugar and water, and when it is of a consistency that will let you spread it over the top of the cake and down the sides, add enough food colouring, drop by drop, until it is red (or dark pink)
5. Add more water or icing sugar if necessary for a spreadable mixture.
6. Spread the icing all over the cake
7. Decorate with heart shaped cholcolates.

If you are using a bought unfilled sponge cake:

1. Separate the two pieces of cake and fill with whipped cream.  You can colour this pink or red with food colouring if you choose
2. Sandwich the two pieces of cake together and cover with red icing as above

Serve with love