I have a special surprise for you today!
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Hello!! It’s Amanda from i am baker and wow, I just can’t believe Marian is letting me crash here today! Marian is one of the most talented, creative and innovative cookie designers I know. Her works often leaves me gasping out loud… and that is no easy feat in this day and age!
Thank you Marian, for all you do. And thanks for letting me hang out here for a bit! It’s a dream come true!!!
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How to Make a Heart Cake – Summarized Version
Start out by making four eight inch pans of white cake. (If you want the actual recipe, just click here)
Make one 9×13 (you can do whatever shape and size you want) pan of red velvet cake. (recipe here)
Break the red velvet cake apart with a fork, combine with one cup of frosting and mix well. Level each white cake and frost the halves together.
Freeze the white cakes for a few hours, then make a circle on each surface using toothpicks tied together with twine.
Following the circle guideline, carve out a V-shape in one of the cakes (Bottom cake, pictured above).
Using a knife, carve out the top half of your cake with a little island in the center (Top cake, pictured above).
Fill each center with red-velvet cake crumbs, let cakes set in the freezer and place the half hollowed out with an ‘island’ in the middle on top of half hollowed out as a V-shape.
Cover your cake with icing, decorate and serve!
You can find the recipes and the full-how to at Amanda’s blog. She shows you more pics, provides detalied explanations and will make you smile while you’re reading them.
Thank you Amanda, for guest posting here!
Happy (early) Valentine’s Day to all of you!
xo,
Marian
You make this look so simple Amanda! The mark of a true artist! Wonderful job guest posting!!!
WOW! That’s just beautiful and so creative!
Amanda this is my favorite cake that you’ve made. Just BEAUTIFUL.
waw,this is so nice and creative!!thks for sharing this,i m gonna try as soon as possible,my daughters are gonna love that!!
The two of you together??!? *sigh* I wish we could all ACTUALLY get together! Wouldn’t that be FUN?!?
This cake is still one of my favorite sweet treats EVER!
This is adorable. I am going to make this on Monday for a young lady at school whose birthday is on Valentines Day! Thank you Marian!
This looks marvelous!! Thanks Marian for sharing
GORGEOUS!
Love this! Amanda and her creativity strikes again!!
Love, love, love it! The cake, the post and YOU!
I am so doing this if I can find a few minutes to myself! So cute.
Yay! I see you took my advice!
Haha!
BTW, totally awesome tutorial, Amanda!
This is really really cool! I have a “cake crush” on, A, I really cannot bake cakes like this, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE to look at hers! Just mindboggled as usual!!!
Wow – so simple, but I never would have thought of this. This has me thinking up other shapes I could put inside cakes….
This is AMAZING!!!!=) I heart the heart cake!!
Thanks for sharing Marian ! I probably will try the heart in the cake, it is so beautiful. The subtittle of Amand’s Blog : “and a lots, lots of calories” is delicious.
Oh so brilliant!!!!! just love it – it inspires me in so many ways. Just shared it with my facebook friends – Big thank you for sharing!!!
Marian, your blog is so nice! I love this idea..we can also try it with other shapes..great! Thanks.
made mine! the carving takes getting used to, i made mine a little wonky, and packed it too full with red velvet cake so the top split a little bit, but it still turned out yummy and im quite proud of it! i used white box mix, and added the cocoa, apple cider vinegar, ad flavouring from the red velvet recipe. used a bit too much red food coloring (1-2T is more than enough) so its not as bright as yours
BF and I had a slice each tonight, and he’s taking the rest (what you see in the pic) to work tomorrow. My first time making a layer cake and icing, so not perfect, but was a great learning experience. Thanks for the tut! http://flic.kr/p/9i3JWu
Flavia, Amanda of i am baker would be proud! (and I’m impressed!)
It looks delish – I’ll bet your BF thinks you’re the best! (and so will his co-workers tomorrow). =)
this is so creative!! thanks marian and amanda! i love guest posts:)
Cute Cake! Thanks Marian for all the great posts!
Happy Valentines Day!
She is really amazing this is beautiful and so creative, love her blog and following her on twitter.
This is number one on my 2011 must make list! Can’t wait to give it a try!
This is such a wonderful and creative idea! I really love it – how effective
Nice cut and great pictures! Thanks!
Oh, my! She is brilliant! I love it. I would love to learn more of her secrets! …and yours, too, of course. I am so glad I found you last week!
Beautiful cake and awesome idea. I also made heart cake, but my cake was so soft. Cutting was very difficult
My little daughter said: Look mother, teddy bear (er… it is heart, my darling 
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http://ebetys.com/blog/2832613/pieni-vadelmasydan/
thank you
this is my attempt:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=165925963460538&set=a.104806389572496.14533.100001294050683&theater
My husband just made me this cake for mother’s day. It came out awesome!