How to Make a Heart-Shaped Cake With 2 Round Cakes

A little effort helps make beautiful heart-shaped cakes.

You can make a double-layered heart-shaped cake out of two round ones with just a little effort. One of the most important factors in cutting cakes is the temperature since hot cakes tend to crumble. Use red frosting or filling, such as cherry pie filling or raspberry jam, to add to the romantic nature of a heart-shaped cake. This will make an ideal dessert for Valentine's Day. Does this Spark an idea?

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Plastic wrap
White paper
Scissors
Knife
Filling
Frosting
Knife

Instructions

- 1
  
  Cover the cakes with plastic wrap, and freeze them for a couple of hours. You don't want them to be too hard, but warm cakes can crumble on you. Also, frozen cakes are easier to cut into a heart shape.
- 2
  
  Trace a circle on white paper using the base of the cake pan as a guide. Cut the circle out with scissors, cutting slightly on the inside of the line to make the circle a bit smaller than the cake. Fold the paper in half, and cut it into a heart shape.
- 3
  
  Take the cakes out of the freezer, and remove the plastic wrap from them.
- 4
  
  Set the heart-shaped paper on top of one of the cake rounds.
- 5
  
  Cut the cake along the template using a knife. Repeat with the second cake round.
- 6
  
  Place the filling on top of one of the cake hearts. Set the second cake heart on top of the first. The filling will hold the cakes steady.
- 7
  
  Frost your heart-shaped cake as desired, and then serve.

Tips & Warnings

If the cake starts getting crumbly while you are frosting it, return it to the freezer for an hour.

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"Decorating Cakes: A Reference & Idea Book (The Wilton School)"; Jeff Shankman; 1999
"1,000 Ideas for Decorating Cupcakes, Cookies & Cakes (1000 Series)"; Sandra Salamony, et al.; 2010
"Betty Crocker Decorating Cakes and Cupcakes"; Betty Crocker Editors; 2006
"The Wilton Way of Cake Decorating: Volume 2"; Eugene Sullivan, et al.; 1990