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Hi, I'm Katie, and I'm going to show you today how to decorate a very cute little chocolate
heart shaped cake.
I'm starting with my cake that's already baked. I just have one layer. You could do multi-layered
if you like. And I have some chocolate frosting. Depending on what occasion you're making this
for you could definitely do vanilla. You could use fondant. Here I'm just going all the way
with chocolate, and I'm going to cover my cake.
You can see I put a large dollop of frosting right on the top. I'm working with my small
offset spatula. I really want to make sure that I'm following the shape especially when
you're working with a cake that's a very specific kind of size and shape. You want to make sure
that it's shown. I'm just working down the sides. You can see, now that I've spread the
frosting all over, I'm just pushing down my sides to cover them. This little offset spatula
is very handy.
When I get around to the back you can see I'm just making sure that I really go in and
out to keep the shape of my heart. Now we can get into smoothing it out. Normally I
would take a bench scraper just to clean up everything. Right now I'm just going to keep
going with my offset. I'm just going to move around and very gently pull towards myself
and take off a little bit of that frosting just to smooth things out a bit. Get to the
other side and pull towards me.
I like to leave the top of my cake a little more rustic looking. You can even do a little
bit of a swooshing design. It's kind of very cute, and, if you want to, go back around
and just clean it up once more. Very easy way to cover your heart shaped cake.
Now, design wise, you can see how cute it is already. I'm going to keep it nice and
simple. Here I have some little candy colored balls, and I'm just going to go around and
do a little heart shape. Then we'll make it into a little Valentine. Maybe I'll write
Be Mine right in the middle. Keep it really cute and simple, because on Valentine's Day
you want to be spending it with the ones you love not necessarily decorating a cake all
day.
Now that I have my little balls everywhere I'm just going to write a little Valentine
right in the middle, maybe a little Love or Be Mine. I'm just letting my frosting fall.
A really cute and easy heart shaped cake for Valentine's Day.