Unique St Valentines Heart Chocolate Cake

You have to admit that this is a very different St. Valentines cake:







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 Chocolate Dot Valentine Cake decorating Techniques

Chocolate dot Valentine cake for my husband.

We all know that Valentine is a special day in almost everyone's life and that we all like to give something to persons we care about.

I made this cake for Valentine in order to surprise my husband. And I surely did.

It looked very nice and tasted even better. He likes chocolate cakes so I made such cake and he was delighted with its look as well as its taste.

For this cake I baked two chocolate layers and made chocolate butter cream for frosting. In order to make chocolate layer I used eggs, sugar, vanilla extract, butter, ground walnuts, cocoa powder, and chocolate.

 First, I mixed butter with sugar and vanilla extract with a mixer. Then, I added egg yolks one at a time, and beat all well until combined. Then, I added cocoa powder and melted chocolate and at the end I added ground walnuts. In other bowl, I beat egg whites and slowly added to the previous mixture.

I poured it into the prepared heart shaped pan and baked two layers in the preheated oven for 10 min. at high heat and 15-20 min. more at lower heat. Took it out of the oven and let it to cool completely. While the layers were cooling I made chocolate frosting. First, I beat butter with powdered sugar and vanilla, added egg yolks, cocoa powder and melted chocolate. I beat egg whites separately and added to the mixture.

I put mixed cream into the fridge to cool and then frosted it between the layers. At the end I used white fondant to cover the cake and on top of the cake I put brown dots bigger and smaller which I made out of modeling chocolate. It really looked cute and it was the perfect present for my husband for Valentine.