Recipe: Valentine’s Day Cake

Nordic Ware have been making their iconic cast aluminium bundt baking tins since the early 1950s, constantly expanding their range.  They have become collector’s items. I have a rather large collection and recently have been sent a Three Tiered Heart Shaped cake pan to review.

I was also sent a Mason Cash mixing bowl just like the old victorian ones but with heart shapes all around the sides (this mixing bowl also comes in pink and red!).  I do love heart shaped things!

I always make a pink heart shaped cake for Valentine’s Day for Mr R along with everything else heart shaped!! Here is my recipe for the pink cake:-

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Pink Valentine's Day Cake

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

45 mins

 

Servings: 8

Author: Heidi Roberts

Ingredients

• 226 grams Self raising flour
• 226 grams castor sugar
• 226 grams unsalted butter
• 4 large eggs
• 6-10 drops red food colouring add more or less to get desired colour
• 60 mil milk
• 5 mil vanilla essence
• 200 grams white chocolate broken into small pieces
• 100 mil double cream heated
• 4-6 drops red food colouring

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F

2. Grease and flour a 12 cup bundt cake pan

3. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy

4. Add eggs one at a time until fully mixed

5. Add pink colouring and vanilla essence

6. Add the self raising flour and mix well

7. Add the milk until the flour has a slightly more moving consistency

8. Check the colour and add more food colouring to get desired colour

9. Pour the cake mix into the prepared bundt cake pan

10. Bake in the cente of a pre-heated oven for 45-55 minutes

11. Remove from the oven and cool for 10 minutes before turning out onto a cake rack.

12. Let cool completely before icing.

13. To make the icing heat the cream but do not let it boil, pour over the white chocolate and let sit for 5 minutes before mixing. Add the red food colouring to the desired colour.

14. Drizzle the icing over the top of the cake and let it cascade down the layers.

I was sent a Three Tiered Heart Shaped cake pan and Mason Cash mixing bowl to review.  I was not required to write a positive review.  All opinions and photographs are my own. No photographs may be reproduced in any manner without my written permission.