Feel your loved ones special with this Fabulous cake. I am crazy about heart shapes and on valentines day I am even more crazy about my passion.
This time, I used buttermilk(milk+vinegar) in this cake and the cake came out perfect!
INGREDIENTS:
Maida/Plain Flour – 1 and 1/2Cup
Baking Soda – ½ Tsp
Baking Powder – ¾ Tsp
Sugar – 1¼ Cup
Butter – ½ Cup
Milk – 1¼ Cup
Vinegar – 1 Tsp
Vanilla assence – 1 Tsp
For Icing: Whipped Cream:
For Completing Cake: Canned Cherries: ¾ Cup
Syrup from cherry tin: ½ Cup
Strawberry flavoured glaze 2 tbsp
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Start by preheating oven to 180 C. Now add in the vinegar to the milk.
- Sift together – Maida, Baking Soda, Baking Powder twice.
- In a mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar until creamed well. Now add in the vanilla. Beat well.
- Add in half of the buttermilk{milk+vinegar}, and half of the flour mix. Mix well, now add rest of the buttermilk and rest flour and mix well.
- Grease a heart shape cake tin, and line it with butter-paper. Add the cake batter to it and bake it for 45 mins in the preheated oven.
- After the cake is baked, let the cake cool to room temp.
- For Icing: I used readymade whipped cream .you can make at home.
- For completing cake: Take ½ cup cherries and remove the seed of it.
- Take the sponge and level the top. Now cut the cake into 3 layers using a big knife/serrated knife. Transfer the layers to a plate.
- Place some bowls below a plate or simple use a turn table. Touch the table with a bit of cream.
- Now place the bottom most layer, spread syrup, now make a thick layer of whipped cream, now some cherries(without seeds). Place the second layer and repeat the steps of syrup, cream, cherries, another layer, and again syrup!
- Now take a big dollop of cream and place on top..Now spread the cream in sides using a big knife/palette knife and cover the cake.
- Add the remaining cream in a piping bag, make double borders in top and fill with glaze .. And also make a border in the edge and sides .drizzle some pink spray color .
- Put the remaining cherries in the top.Decorate with heart shape sprinkles and silver balls.
Your cake is ready .served with love .
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