How do you make a hearty slice of Cake? Find Me a Gift set some bloggers a challenge to come up with different ideas for our Heart Cake, and this is mine.
While the younger boys were sleeping, it gave Mr Z and I a good chance to spend some quality time cake making, which is always good fun.
We had been sent this silicone I heart Cake baking mould from Find me a gift to help us in our challenge
It looks like a flower shape but the cool thing is, that when you cut each slice they will each turn into a heart!
To make the recipe we have used a basic sponge. I used a plain sponge packet from the supermarket and then adapted it. It is easy to make your own sponge cake if you do have all the ingredients in stock in your cupboard though.
We added hot chocolate powder to give it a more chocolate flavour, and added some Hershey’s Kisses to the mixture as I thought kisses will match with the heart theme! The effect is like giant chocolate chips. These should be available in the international section of larger supermarkets, but mine were brought from America by one of my friends.
Soon it was all done and ready for the oven. Of course Mr Z wanted to lick the cake mix from the spoon – He has seen Peppa and George doing it on Peppa pig!
Once the cake had cooled I added some chocolate topping, and cut it into slices…
..and Ta – Da! Heart Shaped cake!!
As it was a heart, of course I gave the first slice to my husband 🙂
August 22, 2013 @ 4:42 pm
This looks fab, and such an effective shape!
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August 22, 2013 @ 4:43 pm
love the heart shaped!
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August 22, 2013 @ 4:47 pm
That cake looks so tasty – I want a piece!! lol And I want that cake mould – it’s fab!
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August 22, 2013 @ 7:27 pm
looks delicious, that cake tin is so cool I love that each slice is a heart
August 22, 2013 @ 8:30 pm
Awww, you softy 🙂
That’s a great cake mould – really clever 🙂
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August 22, 2013 @ 8:31 pm
What a nice idea – can see that going down well for Valentines and Anniversary’s – could do with that in a couple of weeks!
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August 28, 2013 @ 12:56 pm
Chocolate cake is my favourite,looks very yummy,and the heart shaped slices are cute
August 29, 2013 @ 9:43 am
ooo yum that looks delicious!!
September 1, 2013 @ 7:43 pm
Great idea – the cake looks nice.
September 1, 2013 @ 11:10 pm
This looks amazing and what a clever idea the form is x
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December 4, 2014 @ 9:11 am
How clever -perfect for my daughters birthday