The heart-shaped cake, the photo of which you now see, is ideal for any romantic event - be it Valentine's Day (February 14), St. Peter and Fevronia of Murom (it is now the All-Russian Day of Family, Love and Fidelity - July 8), the birthday of a loved one, or any pleasant date associated with your relationship ... 😉

Do not be alarmed that there are 12 cakes! They are baked quickly. True, you have to jump with them and around them, so I always say that cooking this Honey cake is akin to fitness! 😀 Of course, you can do everything in a more measured way. But I don't like it when the preheated oven is idle. And stretching the process for half a day is also a dubious joy. Therefore - at the pace, at the pace! 😉

I was making a cake for my beloved man for his birthday, so I decorated it with a cute golden thirty! Unfortunately, it is inedible ...) But the hearts around the perimeter are made of real chocolate, so you can and even need to eat them. Depending on the event, you can decorate the Medovik with the appropriate inscription or come up with something else.

I took it as a basis! But ... as usual with me, I made some adjustments. I added cinnamon to the dough, so when cooking there was a wonderful aroma not only in the apartment, but also in the staircase! 😀

With the cream, I also did not do without experiments. And here there were much more of them. At the heart of -. This time I managed exclusively with flour, without starch. She also added honey, cognac and seasoning for desserts and coffee. Can you imagine how fragrant it turned out ?! My beloved, like me, is not indifferent to spices, so we really liked it. If you are in doubt about their account, you can either reduce the number or exclude them altogether.

Well, and one more difference from the classic Honey cake is the appearance ... We have a special occasion, romantic! Therefore, below I will talk in detail about how to make a heart-shaped cake with your own hands without a shape! 😉 It's actually very, very simple. Now you will see everything for yourself!

Ingredients for the 12-cake dough:

• butter - 90 g
• eggs - 4 pieces
• salt - 0.5 tsp
• vodka - 1 tbsp.
• honey - 4 tablespoons
• cinnamon - 0.5 tsp
• soda - 1.5 tsp.
• premium wheat flour - 4.5 cups *

* 1 cup = 200 ml liquid = 125 g flour

Cream products:

• sugar - 150 g (can be increased to 250 g)
• eggs - 3 pieces
• milk - 750 ml
• seasoning for desserts and coffee - 0.5 tsp.
• wheat flour, premium grade - 8 tbsp.
• butter - 450 g
• honey - 2 tablespoons
• cognac - 1 tablespoon
• salt - a pinch

Heart-shaped cake - photo and step-by-step recipe:

For both the dough and the cream, we need a water bath. Therefore, you first need to find two saucepans that match each other. The most optimal option, when one enters the other, does not touch the bottom, but not too far from it, while resting with handles on the walls of a larger pan. In fact, you can adapt in different ways, based on the available possibilities.
However, one should take into account the fact that both the dough and cream will increase in volume during the cooking process, so a smaller saucepan should not be completely tiny. I used a 1.5 liter one.

Kneading the dough:

So, I took hot water into a large saucepan (or you can heat cold water), brought it to a boil. I determine the volume of water empirically - I lower the smaller pan and see what level of water is obtained. The smaller saucepan should be partially submerged in water, but not overflowing when boiling.
She put out a second (shallower) saucepan of butter and sugar.
I, as always, did not take a very large amount of sugar, less than in standard recipes. Therefore, if you are not used to reducing the sweetness of baked goods in this way, then put 250 grams.

While the butter was being heated with sugar, I broke the eggs into a separate bowl and beat them with salt simply with a fork.

She let the oil cool down a little (not until it cooled completely, but to a warm temperature) and poured in the eggs. Then she added vodka (it acts as a baking powder along with soda), honey and cinnamon.

I put it on a water bath, stirred well until more or less homogeneous. Poured soda.

Stir well and cook, stirring, until the mass approximately doubled and a lighter shade was obtained (compare with the previous photo both volume and color).

She poured the fragrant mass into a bowl for kneading dough. I waited a few minutes for her temperature to drop. This is necessary solely in order not to burn yourself. As soon as it is possible to work with the mass, you need to start without waiting for further cooling.
First, I poured 2 cups (250 g) of sifted flour. Whipped with an electric whisk.

Then she sifted 2 more glasses of flour here and began to knead with her hands. In the process, I added another 0.5 cups of flour. But your quantity may differ, because different flours and gluten are different.
I put it in a food bag. I left it to rest while preparing the cream.

DIY heart-shaped cake cream:

For the cream, as I already wrote, you also need a water bath. So I washed the smaller saucepan and started cooking in it again.
I combined sifted flour together (it is better not to be lazy and sift so that the cream is homogeneous), sugar (again, I have a minimum amount, but you can increase it) and seasoning for desserts and coffee (it includes cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and vanilla) ... Mixed thoroughly.

Separately, beat the eggs a little with a fork with a pinch of salt and poured them into the flour mixture.

She also poured milk into it. I took the usual store - ultra-pasteurized, 2.5% fat.

I put it in a water bath (the water in a large saucepan should boil) and cook until it thickens. The cream should not be very thick for the spoon to stand)) See the consistency in the photo. After cooling, it will still thicken.
I poured it into a container for further preparation of the cream and allowed it to cool completely.

Separately combined butter and honey in a saucepan (it can be either liquid or candied).

When the butter has completely melted, mixed it until smooth with honey and cooled the resulting mass.

She joined together two cooled (this is important!) Masses - egg-milk and honey-buttered. Poured in brandy. Beat thoroughly. The cream is ready! Delicious cream;)

How to make a heart-shaped cake with your own hands without a shape?

This requires a template! I took out a large cardboard. You can also use paper, but it is better to take a thicker one, it will be more convenient.
I have a heart shaped baking dish. Remember, I baked in it and? .. But, I confess, I don't really like the heart that is obtained when baking ... I would like a more pronounced shape! So I did this - I traced the baking dish with a pencil. And then I adjusted it to fit my wishes - I made a deeper cut between the "shoulders" and reduced the width at the bottom.

If you do not have a similar shape, then just draw a heart of the desired size, or print any picture with a heart from the Internet. If you have a large card or, on the contrary, a small pillow in the shape of a heart, you can circle one of them. It doesn't matter at all what you take as a basis. The main thing is to get a beautiful heart of the right size. My parameters are as follows: the widest place of the heart is 22.5 cm; the total length is 23 cm.

I cut out a heart template from cardboard with scissors. All is ready! You can bake the cakes.

DIY heart-shaped cake - baking cakes:

So, the dough is rested, you can divide it into 12 approximately equal parts. I did it this way - I cut the ball of dough crosswise into 4 parts, and then I have already divided each of them into three identical segments.

She rolled out the dough thinly, sprinkling flour on the board (if this is not done, then the thin dough will stick and break). The layer should be translucent, like a strudel! Yes, yes, if not thinner.
Rolling out the dough, I applied a template - the layer should be larger than the cardboard dough by about a centimeter on each side. Because the dough will shrink a little during baking, and if you roll it back to back, then the cake will turn out to be smaller than the template.

I stuck the dough with a fork so that it would not swell too much during baking. Gently transferred it to a baking sheet (you do not need to lubricate it; however, if it is uneven, rough, then it is better to cover it with foil or parchment paper). I sent it to an oven preheated to two hundred degrees. She baked each cake for 3-4 minutes. The first traditionally requires a little more (4-5 minutes) time until the oven enters the desired mode.
As soon as the cake was browned (it is not necessary to deeply fry until brown), I immediately removed it from the baking sheet onto the board and immediately, while it was still warm (!), Cut out the heart according to the template using a small knife.

This must be done quickly and immediately, because the cake cools very quickly, and when it cools, it begins to crumble - instead of cutting off the excess, you can inadvertently break off the desired part.

I did this procedure 12 times ... While one cake was in the oven, I rolled it out, trying on the template, the next one and stuck it with a fork.

The cuttings were broken into small pieces and put into a shredder.

In several passes, I grind the remnants of the cakes into crumbs, which will be needed for sprinkling.

The cream is ready and cooled, the cakes are baked, the trimmings are ground - everything is ready, you can start collecting the Heart cake for Valentine's Day or another holiday.

I put a spoonful of cream in the center of the cake stand, and the first cake on it. So it will not drive, and then the cake will lag behind the dishes better when cutting. Each cake was well coated with cream and laid on top of the next one. So all 12.

I smeared the sides of the cake with the remains of the cream, and then sprinkled them thickly with crumbs, as well as the top. I laid out small chocolate hearts along the contour of a large honey heart. You can leave it like this - it's already festive!

At the same time, I decided to dilute the strict and at the same time romantic style with decor.
I just left the cake on the table in the kitchen for the night. During this time, it is quite well soaked, after which it can be put into the refrigerator until it is served.

For a long time we could not start tasting, because the hand did not rise to cut it))

But reluctantly, we nevertheless decided on this procedure!)) In the context, he struck a loved one with an abundance of cakes;)

Well, this is how he is - a cake in the shape of a heart with his own hands without a shape! It turned out to be incredibly tender, tasty and very aromatic thanks to the spices! Want to taste a bite? ;)

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Today I will show you how to make a cake for February 14 for your beloved, which turns out not only beautiful, but delicious and delicate in taste. Such cakes appeared not so long ago, but they have already managed to fall in love with many sweet tooths. I make this cake in the shape of a heart, but you can also make it in the form of numbers 14, and in the middle you can cut out a heart, like mine, or not cut out the middle. I take honey cakes as a basis, which can be replaced with sand or almond cakes.

A cake cream is made with boiled condensed milk, curd cheese and cream. For cheese, you can take Philadelphia or any other curd cheese that you like. But regular cottage cheese or curd mass will not work. The cream of curd cheese and cream is quite stable, it keeps its shape well and even condensed milk does not make it liquid. But you can take another cream, for example, butter, then the cake itself will not be so airy.

Heart cake for Valentine's Day is a romantic surprise for your significant other, which will definitely be appreciated. I also advise you to look at the excellent one, which will conquer you with its delicate taste.

Cakes:

• Flour - 350 g
• Sugar - 150 g
• Honey - 70 g
• Butter - 70 g
• Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
• Soda - 1 tsp

Cream:

• Curd cheese - 150 g
• Cream 33% - 250 ml.
• Boiled condensed milk - 150 g

How to make a heart-shaped cake with your own hands

The recipe for honey cake layers is very simple and they are made quite quickly. I put soft butter in a saucepan, add sugar and honey. Then I mix them and put them on a pre-prepared steam bath.

When the mass has heated up, become homogeneous, and the sugar has completely dissolved, I remove the saucepan from the heat.

Beat the eggs separately until they are lightly fluffy, literally for a minute, if you do it with a mixer.

Immediately add soda to the hot honey mixture and mix.

Add beaten eggs to the melted mixture and stir. I add flour last and knead the dough. It is important not to pour too much of it, so as not to clog the dough with flour, it should remain a little sticky.

Then I put it in the refrigerator for half an hour so that it becomes harder, after which it will be much easier to work with it.

Since I have a heart-shaped cake, while the dough is resting, I prepare the template. On a regular A4 sheet I draw a large heart, and inside a smaller one, then cut it out along the contours.

Now I roll out the dough very thinly, about 2 mm thick. I do this right away on parchment, so as not to transfer and deform it later. Sprinkle it on top with just a little flour, put a paper stencil on it and carefully cut it along the contour with a knife. Also, don't forget to cut out the center heart.

I remove the scraps of dough, leave them for the next cakes. I shift the cake with parchment onto a baking sheet and make holes with a fork so that the cake does not deform during baking.

I heat the oven to 160 degrees and bake for about 10 minutes, until slightly ruddy. Do not bake for a long time so that it does not become very dry. By the way, if you do dry out the cake, you can slightly soak it before assembling. From the rest of the dough, I make two more hearts of exactly the same kind and also small cookies for decoration. I still have a little dough, you can make a fourth layer from it, if you want.

Now I am making a cream from boiled condensed milk and cream. To begin with, I shift curd cheese and thick boiled condensed milk into the mixer bowl.

Beat them with a mixer for a couple of minutes until fluffy and smooth.

At the same time, I take cold cream and pour it into a not very wide container, I do this in a measuring cup. In my opinion, this way they whip faster. Beat the cream with a mixer on medium speed until it becomes fluffy. And here, in a narrow container, the moment comes when it is clear that the foam stops moving around the rims, which means it's ready. In time it is only a couple of minutes.

Now in the mass with condensed milk, add a couple of tablespoons of cream and mix with a spatula or spoon.

At first it may seem that the mass has become more liquid, this is so and will not work for decorating a cake, so I take a mixer and beat everything together for a couple of minutes. The cream will begin to thicken instantly and will hold its shape well. I hope I described in great detail how to make cream cheese for a cream cake and you can easily make it.

I put the cream in a pastry bag with any attachment, I took an asterisk. It didn't fit me all at once, so I put it in three approaches. I put the bottom cake on the tray and squeeze out the cream evenly on top with small roses or asterisks, who as they call them, so that each of them is about the same size.

You can also alternate cream with cream for the cake with berries, which will also be delicious. Thus, I form the whole cake. I got three layers.

I also cover the last top layer with cream through the same nozzle.

Now I decorate it on top with small colored bezeshki, cookies and pastry sprinkles in the form of hearts. Here is such a fashionable heart cake, I really like it in appearance. It is also customary to decorate it with pasta cakes and flowers.

The cake for February 14 is ready for the beloved, now the main thing is that it is soaked well, and this takes at least 12 hours, and preferably a day. Therefore, I put it in the refrigerator and do not touch it ahead of time. Although it didn't work out that way and decided to try it just 3 hours after cooking, it was tasty but not soft enough yet. But the next day, the cream soaked it perfectly, the cakes became soft and went well with such an airy cream. Delight your loved ones with such delicious surprises.

Recipes for making cakes at home with a photo

cake heart

12-15

2 hours

340 kcal

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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 show you how to bake a delicious heart-shaped chocolate cake 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 of good quality. For the filling, you can use both fresh berries and frozen ones. 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 all this well with a mixer until you get a stable, fluffy cream of 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 with a small amount of 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 make the 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 a special shape? 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 home probably has a round baking dish and a rectangular one. 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.

No wedding, regardless of its size, is complete without a 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 piece of the 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. For a small wedding party, a single-tier cake with several layers is suitable. 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 of the desired shape are 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. Each type of biscuit cake will have its own cream. It all depends on what you want to get as a result - an airy cake or a juicy and satisfying one. The combination of fresh or canned fruit and vegetable cream in the dessert does not add to the severity of the dessert. Sour cream is very popular. For decoration with mastic, creams based on vegetable cream, Mascarone cheese are best suited.

Decoration and decor

Only experienced pastry chefs know how advanced the cake production technology has been. 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. Edible sugar beads, marmalade figurines come to the rescue. 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 on a cream basis and decorated with a scattering of flowers, and the topmost one is covered with a layer of mastic and must be 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 an original cake as "Two Hearts". The output will be a dessert weighing about 9 kg. If you have time, and most importantly, a desire to do homemade cakes for a celebration, you should try it. Stock up on the food you need and take action. 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:

1. Combine eggs with sugar in a bowl, stir well, add honey, margarine, milk there.
2. Prepare a steam bath, put a well-mixed mass on it. Bring to a boil to completely melt the margarine, sugar, honey.
3. Mix cocoa, half the flour with baking powder. Stir well and remove from the steam bath.
4. From the remaining flour, make a mound with a hole inside, pour the hot chocolate mass into it.
5. Knead the dough until it becomes elastic and does not stick to your hands.
6. Divide it into 16 equal parts and make balls.
7. Roll the balls onto cakes, slightly larger in parameters, since the size decreases during baking.
8. 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.
9. 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:

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

Assembling and decorating a wedding cake:

1. Soak each cake with cream, fold. You should get two hearts with 8 layers each.
2. Putting next to one heart, cut off an extra corner, connect them together. We give time to soak for 30-40 minutes.
3. We begin to decorate with whipped cream, powdered sugar.
4. We coat the cake well on all sides, level the cream on top with a knife.
5. 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