How to Make a Heart-Shaped Cake From Circle Pans

Serve heart-shaped cakes for Valentine's Day or any special occasion.

Make a cake with heart, without using a specialty pan. Specialty cake pans take up too much room in your kitchen cabinets to justify their limited uses. Instead of stocking your cabinets with heart-shaped pans, keep a round and square cake pan shapes on hand and use them to cut a heart shape for a cake. Such a technique works well with two layer cakes served as a single, frosted cake. Does this Spark an idea?

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8-inch square pan
8-inch round pan
Butter
Flour
Cake batter for two layer cake, prepared
Cooling rack
Cake plate or board
Knife

Instructions

- 1
  
  Spread a thin layer of butter on the inside bottom and sides of the two pans.
- 2
  
  Sprinkle flour inside the cake pans and knock out the excess.
- 3
  
  Divide the cake batter between the pans evenly and bake as directed.
- 4
  
  Cool the cakes in the pans for 10 minutes.
- 5
  
  Turn the cakes onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
- 6
  
  Place the square cake in the middle of a cake board at an angle so it looks like a diamond.
- 7
  
  Cut the round cake in half to make two semi-circles. Arrange each along one of the two upper sides of the diamond for the top curves of the heart shape.
- 8
  
  Cover the cake with frosting to hide the seams where the cakes were pieced together.

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"Sweet Celebrations: The Art of Decorating Beautiful Cakes"; Sylvia Weinstock, et al.; 1999