Chocolate Heart Shape Cake
When I saw Hearty Bakes posted her Chocolate Buttons recipe, I immediately fell in love with it and told myself I’m going to make them for my friend’s birthday. Since my dear friend loves anything in heart shape, I decided to use Sarah’s silicone mould (SiliconeMoulds.Com & here) to make this cute Heart Shape Chocolate Cake for her birthday that is today. You may wonder how come my cake looked so patchy and black. Hmmm … well, I’d actually used valrhona cocoa powder and already reduced the cocoa powder to 35g instead of 55g and I didn’t make swirl, just pipe the plain and dark batter alternately in the moulds and this was how it turned out …. hahaa … don’t judge by the outward appearance, the cake was soft and the dark chocolate gave a strong fragrant flavour. Anyway make sure you check on this beautiful post at Hearty Bakes, you’ll definitely agree with me that her pictures of the Chocolate Buttons are very pretty.
Chocolate Heart Shape Cake
Ingredients (yields 10 heart shapes)
150g Butter (softened)
135g Sugar
3 Eggs
200g Self-raising flour
8 tbsp Milk
1 tsp Vanilla extract
35g Cocoa powder (Valrhona)
some melted chocolate (I used leftover chocolate ganache cream)
Method:
- Preheat oven at 180deg c, grease mould and dust with flour.
- Whisk butter, sugar, eggs, milk, vanilla extract and flour until smooth and well-mixed.
- Divide batter into two portions and mix one with cocoa powder, mix well.
- Then transfer into piping bags. Pipe plain and chocolate batter alternately onto moulds till 3/4 full and bake for about 18-20 minutes or until well risen and springy to touch.
- Transfer to a wire rack and let cool.
- Double-boil some chocolate. Pipe into the hole in each heart-shaped cakes.
Enjoy!
if you’re interested on more silicone moulds product, please check on SiliconeMoulds.Com for more detail
Hi Ann
Does it mean use hand to whisk all the ingredients at same time? Or whisk butter first then add in other ingredients one at a time?
I'm hoping to use hand to make the batter. Will it affect the texture?
Lynn
Hi Lynn, you can use an electric hand whisk to mix all the ingredients at the same time.
This heart shape mold is really cute. You can also use it for Valentines too! I love how you decorated in the last photo. Such a beautiful gift!
These heart-shaped mini cakes look adorable! I love them, especially because they're with chocolate too :)!
These heart cakes look so cute! The cake looks soft and I am sure that the chocolate in the middle must give a unique taste to it! Perfect for Valentines day, don't you think?
Such cute and adorable cakes! Such a joy to look at (and eat :D)
Looks so cute!!
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How creative and decorative!
Such a lovely cake. Great presentation too!
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Very cute cake & looks yummy too. I like it.
Ann, these look fantastic! You have such patience for details. I like the different textures here! YUM!
@cherry potato
Cherry Potato, 呵呵。。。不包不行。。。有点像牛牛的身体:DD 还好我朋友很喜欢。
@Nezzy
Hello Nezzy, So glad you're here. Happy Halloween!!
@Gina
Gina, I love your mould too. .
@Blackswan
Shirley, I'm sure you can do this because you're a very creative person 🙂
These are so lovely! Thanks for sharing.
look cute and must be very good too!
又是让人难以抗拒的甜点，包装得还美美的。
These look absolutely beauty!!! gloria
They looks damn pretty and cute..
It looks so very difficult but you make it look almost easy!!!
These are just marvelous lookin' little jewels and I do want to try 'em and wow my girlie friends!!!
God bless ya and have a fantastic weekend sweetie!!!
I didn't think it looked bad, I thought it kind of looked like pudding in the middle, yum. I love my moulds I got from her. I like your hearts, so cute.
-Gina-
These are so pretty, Ann! Wonder when I can bake like u….. Love how u wrap them up individually like bouquets 🙂
Sherleen, yes sure. Will you be in S'pore? :DD
Yes, according to Sarah's instruction, the mould needs to be dusted with some flour.
小鲸，是哦！我也没想到。。。 hihi..
Thanks Ellena. 🙂
Thank you dudut!
Li Shuan, 呵呵。。我靠诉你。。 我朋友真的超感动的。
Thank you Melanie for stopping by 🙂
@小鱼
小鱼，呵呵。。。那你下次记得做一个给你的爱人，他一定很喜欢 ^-^
@love melody, love baking
Love medody, please take a look at the pic of the mould at the bottom of this page or check on Sarah's blog.
@Michelle
Michelle, 哈哈。。。好像有点肉麻。。。不过我喜欢 😀
@eileenlee
Eileen, 没问题，我还有两颗心 😀
@ReeseKitchen
Reese, when are you here? *wink*wink… :))
What a cute cake! The heart shape is perfect! They look so tender and delicious!
i'm sure these buttons will melt the eaters' hearts away!!
look great!
收到这蛋糕的人会很感动。很美的心性蛋糕啊！
they look lovely, you're such a great baker, i always love your creations 🙂
加入了融化的巧克力，看起来很高级 ^_^
How lovely!!! Would love to have one 🙂 Yumm!!!
these heart shaped cake are sooo cute!!! I love the colour and especially those extra chocolate on top. Drool!!!!
好漂亮的造型^^
情人节可以上场喔这个:)
ann, am i your friend too? my birthday is coming soon also after end of this year…can i have 1 heart shape cake also? haha…
the cakes are so cute and moist. wanna ask you, you dust the silicone mould with flour to avoid the cake stick to the mould, is it?
SOoo delicious, can feel the chocolate taste in my mouth, yum yum.
hmm….cuty and scrumptious at same time.. Yummy! ^,^
Desire to get ur "love" heart, too gorgeous, well done,I like ya!
They look so tasty! and doesn't worry about the lack of swirls, I personally like dotted appearance – they remind me of polka-dots 🙂
Gorgeous! Great for making valentine chocolates too:D
Ann, it look so lovely and cute. Nice presentation too.
心形蛋糕和彩纸包装配搭得好美，
你生日的朋友好有口福&眼福啊！
p/s: 送给爱人也不错, 嘻嘻！
Your cake made me smile 😀 It looks so cute and delicious 😉
very pretty! and I could eat many buttons at one go.
Ooh, i love the heart shaped cakes and how you can fill it with choc ganache after that!! But dun have heart shaped moulds 🙁
太有创意了！看到那个巧克力我就很喜欢了。