How to cut a heart-shaped cake. Cake "Biscuit Heart"

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First, prepare the cakes. Combine all dry ingredients in a separate bowl.

Whisk in a separate bowl chicken eggs, and while whipping in a thin stream, add vegetable oil.

Add a mixture of dry ingredients to the egg mass and mix.

Add warm milk, and mix again. You should get a thick dough.

Pour in boiling water and mix quickly until smooth.

Pour the dough into a heart shape, the bottom and sides of which are lined with parchment.

We bake in an oven preheated to 180 * C for about 1 hour. We check the readiness with a wooden skewer.

Take the finished cake out of the mold and let it cool completely.

Cut the cooled cake horizontally into 3 equal parts.

Now let's prepare the cream. Beat egg yolks white with sugar.

Add flour while whisking.

Bring the milk to a boil, and, stirring vigorously, introduce the egg mass into it. Remove from heat and leave to cool at room temperature.

While the milk and egg mixture is cooling, beat the softened butter.

Without stopping whipping, add the cooled milk-egg mass into the whipped butter in a tablespoon.

We are preparing the impregnation. Instant coffee pour boiling water and stir until dissolved.

Add sugar and brandy and stir until sugar dissolves.

For the filler, cut the bananas into thin slices.

Let's start assembling the cake. We soak each cake with coffee and cognac impregnation.

On bottom cake apply the cream, lay a layer of banana slices on top.

Apply a thin layer of cream on top of the bananas.

Put the next cake on top, cover with cream, bananas, and again with a thin layer of cream.

We spread the top cake on top, cover with a thin layer of cream, and put the cake in the refrigerator for several hours so that the cream will set.

While the cake is infusing, prepare a cream for decoration. Chilled egg whites beat with a pinch of salt until firm foam.

In a saucepan, mix sugar and water, bring to a boil over medium heat, and cook for 4 minutes. Then add citric acid, mix, and cook for a few more minutes until a drop of syrup, poured into a plate with cold water will not keep its shape.

Pour the prepared syrup in a thin stream into the whites, whisking constantly.

Add food coloring to some of the cream.

Cover the sides and top of the cake with cream. Using a pastry syringe, lay out a neat side along the contour of the heart. Ready cake put in the refrigerator for a while. Decorate with pastry powder if desired. Bon Appetit!

Description

Valentine Heart Cake- wonderful pastries in the form of a huge heart made of biscuit-poppy cakes with custard and delicate creamy decor. Such a cake at home can be baked for any occasion, but it is ideal for Valentine's Day, the symbol of which is the heart. A culinary "Valentine" is a simple and at the same time romantic way to congratulate your soul mate on Valentine's Day.

At first glance, it may seem that making a Valentine Heart cake is quite difficult. But, believe me, this is not the case. It is baked easily and relatively quickly, which you will soon see by reading our step by step recipe with a photo, but it looks extremely impressive at the same time. By the way, you can decorate the cake the way you want (not necessarily as difficult as in the photo), because in any case it will turn out to be elegant and appetizing.

Let's start cooking!

Ingredients

(8.5 tablespoons)
(9 pcs.)
(360 g)
(300 g)
(5 tablespoons)
(600 ml)
(70 g)
(500 ml)
Thickener for cream
(1 package)
(4 tablespoons)
(1 tsp)
(400 g)
(4 tablespoons)

Cooking steps

Let's start by making the cakes. To do this, take 6 eggs and beat them until the volume doubles. Then add 180 g granulated sugar and beat for another 2-3 minutes. Sift flour and mix with baking powder, and then combine with egg-sugar mass. Pour in the poppy seeds and stir gently again. In the shape of a heart, bake 3 biscuit-poppy cakes, preheating the oven to 180 degrees. Each cake is baked for about 15 minutes.

In the meantime, prepare the custard. First, in a refractory container, mix milk with 120 g of granulated sugar, 3 egg yolks, 2 ½ tbsp. l. flour and 2 tbsp. l. starch (better than corn).

We put the container on the stove or in the microwave and heat the mixture over medium-high heat, stirring regularly.

Ready cream should thicken well. After that, it can be removed from the stove and cooled, and if there are lumps, it can also be rubbed through a sieve.

Interrupt the cooled homogeneous custard with a mixer to get the smoothest texture possible.

Beat the softened butter separately.

Then we add it to the custard and interrupt all together until splendor.

Defrost the cherries and combine with the remaining sugar and the remnants of starch diluted with water.

Boil the mixture until thick and cool.

Now we collect the cake. To do this, cover each cake with custard, and then sandwich with a cherry mass.

Heavy cream interrupt well with icing sugar and a thickener.

Cover the cake with the resulting mixture.

We do the same on the sides.

If desired, you can set aside some of the creamy mass, add dye to it (the same Cherry juice) and deposited through a pastry syringe to get a more effective decor.

Have a nice and romantic tea party!

No wedding, regardless of its scope, is complete without wedding cake... It is the same attribute as the wedding dress of the bride or the rings of the newlyweds. Many guests even specially wait for the end of the banquet to watch and taste a small bite culinary masterpiece... What could be more symbolic at a holiday than a heart wedding cake?

You need to take care of the choice of a sweet dessert for the wedding in advance. Find out which firms or bakeries in your city create custom-made cakes. Ask for customer reviews, prices for such services. To dwell on a particular cake, you must know the expected number of guests at the wedding, decide on the shape, size and weight of the dessert, composition and decor. How do you look if the main delicacy of your celebration is a heart-shaped wedding cake - a symbol of great and eternal love?

Stand and number of tiers

Dessert can be single or multi-tiered. The choice is up to the hosts of the holiday. Suitable for a small wedding party single tier cake in a few cakes. The approximate size can be calculated by the number of people invited to the celebration. On average, a cake portion is 5-7 cm wide. If more guests are expected, then the dessert should be increased in size, both in width and height. The biscuits, laid out on several floors, decorated with mastic and cream, look very beautiful.

The cake cannot be without a substrate at the bottom. There are several types of stands and different diameters:

multi-tiered vertical;
with 2, 3, even 5 tiers in the form of a tree;
dessert tray;
table on wheels for a large cake.

On a stand, this wedding delicacy always looks more solid and more presentable. Such devices are plastic (transparent or white), glass. Trays are made of metal or plastic. After baking, biscuits the desired shape laid out on substrates so that the contours between the frame and the future cake coincide. Only then does the confectioner who creates the masterpiece start decorating.

Color and filling

It is better to decide in advance what color the cake should be. The groom and the bride need to choose for themselves whether it will be something delicate white and pink, airy or bright juicy tones. Flowers, butterflies, beads or figurines made of mastic can serve as decoration. The most common option for wedding cake decor is the prototypes of the bride and groom standing on top of the pastry.

When choosing a filling, there is no limit to imagination. The following can be used:

fruits;
vegetable cream;
butter cream;
creamy curd;
based on condensed milk;
sour cream.

The cake should turn out not only outwardly attractive, but also necessarily delicious. For each type biscuit cake your cream will do. It all depends on what you want to get as a result - air cake or juicy and satisfying. Dessert combination of fresh or canned fruits and vegetable cream does not cause severity after its use. Sour cream is very popular. For decoration with mastic, creams based on vegetable cream, Mascarone cheese are best suited.

Decoration and decor

Only know how advanced the cake production technology has been experienced confectioners... Some 30-40 years ago, monotonous cream roses (oil) were adornments. Nowadays, baked goods can look like a work of art, which is even a pity to cut, and not something to eat. To work on such a cake and get the expected result, you need to know a lot of secrets.

In our time, cakes decorated with mastic figures or completely covered with mastic are widespread. A whole plot or picture is fashioned. Edibles come to the rescue sugar beads, gummy figurines. Separately, you can sculpt or purchase ready-made figurines from mastic, intended for a particular celebration, in this case, a wedding. The inscriptions are made using a special tube filled with food gel.

If the cake has several tiers, then each should be done in a different way. It will look interesting on the outside, and guests will be able to taste several types of biscuits and fillings. For example, one tier can be decorated with fruits, strawberries with cream, the other is soaked in cream for creamy base and is decorated with a scattering of flowers, and the topmost one is covered with a layer of mastic and is necessarily decorated with figurines of the newlyweds. Such a cake will be remembered not only by the perpetrators of the event, but also by everyone present.

Recipe for making cake "Two hearts" at home

At home, it is quite possible to cope with baking such original cake like "Two Hearts". The output will be a dessert weighing about 9 kg. If you have time, and most importantly the desire to do homemade cakes for a celebration - worth a try. Stock up essential products and start acting. Surely, you will surprise all guests by creating this masterpiece with your own hands. Using this recipe, you can bake a cake not only for a wedding, but also for its anniversary.

Required ingredients for the dough:

flour - about 2500 g;
granulated sugar - about 1 kg;
cocoa powder - 12-13 tablespoons;
baking powder - 4 teaspoons;
egg - 4 pieces;
creamy margarine -200 g;
honey - 8-9 tablespoons;
milk - 25 tablespoons.

Ingredients for the cream:

butter - 1300 g;
milk - 2.5 l;
sugar - 1300 g;
yolks - 16 pieces;
vanilla sugar - 40 g;
flour - 20 tablespoons.

To decorate the cake you will need:

cream - about 1 liter;
icing sugar - about 1.5 kg;
mastic;
gelatin - 20 g;
food coloring red.

Preparation of cakes:

Combine eggs with sugar in a bowl, stir well, add honey, margarine, milk there.
Prepare steam bath, put a well-mixed mass on it. Bring to a boil to completely melt the margarine, sugar, honey.
Mix cocoa, half the flour with baking powder... Stir well and remove from the steam bath.
From the remaining flour, make a mound with a hole inside, pour the hot chocolate mass into it.
Knead the dough until it becomes elastic and does not stick to your hands.
Divide it into 16 equal parts and make balls.
Roll the balls onto cakes, slightly larger in parameters, since the size decreases during baking.
Each cake is baked in the oven for 6-8 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 degrees. This is how all 16 layers of the future cake are prepared.
We give the shape of the heart to the cakes while they are hot, otherwise it will be difficult to do this later.

Cream preparation:

Mix about 1.5 liters of milk, 800 g of sugar, put on a small fire.
In a separate container, thoroughly mix the yolks, the remaining sugar, vanillin until smooth, gradually adding 1 liter of milk.
Pour the milk-yolk mixture into the hot milk on the stove in a thin stream, stirring constantly.
When the cream begins to thicken, bring it to a boil.
Add softened butter to the cooling composition, mix well.
Let the cream cool completely and beat well.

Assembling and decorating a wedding cake:

Soak each cake with cream, fold. You should get two hearts with 8 layers each.
Putting next to one heart, cut off an extra corner, connect them together. We give time to soak for 30-40 minutes.
We begin to decorate with whipped cream, powdered sugar.
We coat the cake well on all sides, level the cream on top with a knife.
Decorate with mastic figurines.

Video: how to decorate a cake with mastic?

In order not to order or buy mastic figures, you can show your creativity - make them yourself. If you involve the whole family in this process, you will get an interesting exposition. Sculpted figures from mastic can be stored for up to 6 months in a cool place, closed container. After watching the video below on decorating with mastic (how you can "wrap" a cake with it), you will want to immediately apply your knowledge in practice.

Photos of the most beautiful wedding cakes in the shape of a heart

The central decoration of the holiday will be a wedding heart cake, which already in its shape symbolizes the atmosphere of love, kindness and warm wishes to the newlyweds. Such a contour of cakes allows you to fit into the general theme any other types of decorations, inscriptions and color palette from a large number shades or just 2-3 colors.

At home confectionery art allows you to use simple options decoration with cream, chocolate or fruit - the main idea will be saved in the outline of the heart, which will remain in the memory and in photographs.

Artistic playing of the heart shape gives scope to a wide variety of cake composition options. Based on the number of guests at the holiday, the required one is determined. It can be done, but from several oppositely located figures. The mastic coating embodies the sophistication of design solutions and the impression of luxury with minimal use of dyes.

Traditionally used in design, which is abundantly present in natural ingredients for decoration (fruits, flowers, berries) and their derivatives (jams, juices, jellies, marmalade).

Can be filled with different types and tastes of details (fresh, candied or made with your own hands).

Single-tiered

It is convenient and customary to cut a classic cake for the hero of the occasion, so it is in different versions so in demand.

Only 2 wedding attributes (rose and heart), embodied in the cream, will make an indelible impression with some diligence of the master.

It is convenient to place on a flat surface of sufficient size, which will be visible to guests from afar.

Inedible or ceramic figurines, photo collages can be easily and quickly removed from a single-tier product.

Multi-tiered

Placing a massive dessert on a small one, and even so that it solemnly rises above the surrounding attributes, is an option for tiered cake... At the same time, each floor is separated by a contrasting color border from the adjacent level in order to maximize the effect. It can be beads flower buds, edible ribbons of sugar paste.

The iconic shape of the cake is perfect for minimalist events when there is no colorful play of colors, or themed weddings, where the rest of the decoration elements are chosen for reasons of originality.

With mastic

Mastic allows you to sculpt from it the most elaborate elements for decorating surfaces. Easily dyed in the desired color, the mass is supplemented openwork patterns from white or dark chocolate, bows, beaded necklaces or a cascade of the finest flower buds. The icing-style finish of the composition, reminiscent of an ice pattern, is popular.

Sugar mastic takes any color with the help of special food gels, which make it possible to convey the tenderness of the petals of real living flowers.

With cream

The cream ornament has a large number of different options... It all depends on the set of nozzles for pastry syringe, the imagination of the master and the skills of working with this material.

Cake - two hearts with cream are considered a safe bet for guests with different flavors... A wedding dessert is possible. The shine and depth of this finish is given by the jelly coating, marmalade and meringue inserts.

The whipped protein relief gives airiness and splendor to any cakes.

(naked cakes) are made from cream.

Ideas for decorating cakes in the form of a heart

The fashion for decorating cakes is developing rapidly in many directions, since themed weddings are widespread. Today, fragments from history are colorfully built on the basis in the shape of hearts. Ancient Greece, with the inhabitants of the underwater world, reproduce architectural masterpieces that impressed the newlyweds.

Vintage celebrations present the most unexpected solutions from the characters and accessories of youth culture.

Thematic execution of the cake decor can be as follows:

basket or box of flowers;
figurines of people, animals, children's toys, cars, household items or professional orientation of newlyweds;
symbols of happiness, fertility, luck, motherhood, abundance;
comic scenes, details with a hint of some memorable events;
texts, photographs, drawings, portraits,;
gastronomic abstraction;
status design, logos, precious and exclusive inclusions.

An effective solution assumes its availability for the perception of those present. There is no need to over complicate and burden the composition with complex conclusions, if this is not included in the program of the event. The delicate work of a culinary specialist can say a lot for itself.

Figures and flowers

Various versions of edible figurines made from sugar mastic, marzipan are very often used to decorate a cake. By installing such figurines on a wedding heart cake, the craftsman not only saves work time, but also gives it a solemn finished look of the thematic product.

This video shows you how you can create figures of the bride and groom yourself:

Elements on the surface of the dessert are arranged according to a well-thought-out scheme so that they harmoniously (without excess) embody the author's idea and make it possible to easily divide the product into portions for guests.

Flowers for framing the figures only emphasize the tender feelings and solemnity of the event. Bouquets or garlands look beautiful, which do not crush with their mass, but delight with the grace of each petal.

Variety of colors

Flower buds are distinguished by their perfection not only in shades of color, but also in the subtlety of work. Therefore, for this design, choose from 2 options:

riot of colors, iridescent, contrasting transitions;
one-color execution with careful drawing of details.

In the first case, on a completely finished basis, bright flowers are made from cream across the cake field, emphasizing the difference between a bouquet and a basket.

Home pastry chef can come in handy original way forming colored parts from fruit marshmallow which is easier to handle than pastry mastic.

Quickly and beautifully, not only flowers and leaves are made of it, but also letters for congratulations, parts of the ornament on a cake or heart-shaped cakes.

As an option for combining contrasting color and monochrome design, the decoration of the top of the dessert is used, which stands out against the general background by the central composition and the peripheral finish with small splashes of gold or silver.

On a stand

The main sweet dish of the holiday does not have to be one whole array. Modern rules have brought into fashion the presentation of a wedding cake, consisting of several completed products in one style composition. They are placed on one stand and are separated only before cutting.

This video presents ways to decorate a wedding cake:

The upper deck is occupied by a cake for the newlyweds, the lower floors are available to guests. There can be both cut sweets and designer cakes (ready-made portions).

The decision to choose a heart cake for a wedding will in the overwhelming majority of cases be a successful and win-win option. The emotional coloring of the form so appropriate for such an occasion, combined with a spectacular design in the style of the event, will not leave indifferent either guests or heroes of the occasion. The completeness of the experience will ensure the memorable taste of each piece of this confectionery piece.

Recipes for making cakes at home with a photo

cake heart

12-15

2 hours

340 kcal

5 /5 (1 )

Do you want to surprise your loved ones not only with delicious, but also beautifully decorated pastries? Then this dessert recipe is for you. I will tell you how to bake delicious chocolate cake in the shape of a heart at home. I learned the recipe for this cake from my mother-in-law.

Inventory and kitchen appliances: mixer, bowl, heart-shaped baking dish (optional).

Necessary products

For the test:

For the cream:

For glaze:

For decoration:

Features of the choice of products

The chocolate should be black and good quality. For filling can be used as fresh berries and frozen. If you have frozen strawberries, you do not need to defrost them before making the cake. Add sugar to the dough according to your taste.

Unmarried English women in the 17th century sincerely believed that if you put a piece of sweet cake under your pillow, then at night in a dream they would meet with their betrothed.

How to make a heart cake at home: a step-by-step recipe

In order to make a heart-shaped cake with your own hands, turn on the oven at 200 degrees and, while it heats up, we begin to prepare the dough.

The dough is baked for about 35 minutes.

You can check if the biscuit is ready with a toothpick. Pierce the cake, if the toothpick is dry - the cake is baked well, and it's time to get it out.

We take out the finished biscuit from the oven. After it has completely cooled down, cut it into 3 parts.

Heart cake cream recipe

Before making a heart-shaped cake, you need to take care of the preparation of the cream. This recipe is more than simple. Pour 600 ml of cream into a bowl, add sugar and beat it all well with a mixer until you get a stable, lush cream the desired consistency... At the end, add cocoa powder, mix gently with a spoon, and the cream is ready!

Let's start assembling the cake

Chop the kiwi and strawberries for the filling. We smear the first cake with cream and spread the kiwi slices on top. Smear a little more cream. Then comes the second cake, which we cover in the same way with cream, then lay out the strawberries and fix not big amount cream on top. Finally, put the third cake.

How to decorate and serve the "Heart" cake beautifully

It's up to you, of course, to choose how to decorate the "Heart" cake at home. I usually cover the cake with chocolate icing and berries. Strawberries look especially beautiful on a cake of this shape.

To prepare chocolate icing, take 230 g of quality dark chocolate, break it into pieces and put it in a bowl. Add a little milk there and put it in the microwave to melt.

In the absence of a microwave oven, chocolate can be melted in a water bath.

Then mix the chocolate, gradually adding milk there. It will take about 4-5 spoons, but it depends on the chocolate. Therefore, introduce milk gradually, stirring constantly. The finish should be smooth and shiny.

We finish the design of the Heart cake by decorating it with strawberries, making it look even more romantic.

You already know how to bake a Heart cake. But how to make a heart-shaped cake without special form? For me, this question was also very recently relevant, because, as it turned out, it is quite difficult to find a high-quality, beautiful and even heart shape. Therefore, I resorted to a trick, which I will tell you about now.

Every house probably has round form for baking and rectangular. We bake cake cakes in them.

When the cakes are ready and cool, cut the round cake along and measure the length of its cut (diameter). Then we cut off the rectangular cake so that its side is exactly the same length as the diameter of the round one. Slide the halves of the round cake layer to the two top sides of the square cake, and you have a pretty, even heart.

Video recipe for making a cake "Heart"

This video clearly demonstrates how you can assemble a heart-shaped cake without a special shape. True, the cakes in the video were prepared according to a different recipe for a completely different cake. But with the help of this video, you will definitely learn how to give the cakes for any cake a heart shape.