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How to Bake Hearts inside a cake

karmarieJackie
By: karmarie and Jackie
Posted 10/26/12 • Last updated 10/30/12 • 41752 views • 22 comments

Posted by Jackie




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How to put an image inside a cake so each piece cut is the same.

List of Materials

  • baked cake the color you want inside, shaped cutter, baking nail, raw mix.


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Cut small wedges, one at a time as needed, out of your baked colored cake. I am using a heart cutter. You want your pieces to be in a wedge shape so they will fit TIGHTLY together.
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Here are all my pieces cut out ready to go. This pink cade was baked in a 7" x 3" pan so that it would fit in an 8" x 3" pan for the second baking.
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Now I have placed a little bit of cake batter in the bottom of my pan. I also place a flower nail to get even baking. My first attempt took the center so long to get done the edges were a bit dry. The pieces will stand up by themselves. Make sure to push down close to the last piece so you don't get any chocolate mix inbetween the hearts.
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More stacking.
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All stacked in tight. Now you will cover with the batter you have left over... I didn't use ALL my batter... just make sure you cover the pieces.
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Bake. I baked this 8" x 3" cake for about an hour at 350 degrees. Just keep checking every 5 minutes or so until done.   WAH LAH!
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Comments (22)

ak165 10/28/12 at 11:13am
What a neat technique, clever! What recipes did you use? Maybe a moister pink cake since you have to bake it again ? or a butter cake that is dense?
karmarie 11/7/12 at 10:34am
Hi ak165. I don't know why this is not posted by me anymore, but this is my tutorial. I just baked a regular pink cake. It was amazing that it didn't seem like it was twice baked. It was still moist.
2txmedics 11/8/12 at 9:52pm
oh wow!!! Karen...this is your tutorial....
xoxoxCelebrationCakes 11/12/12 at 1:20am
Thanks for this!
I'd love to give it a go one day
xoxox
sccandwbfan 11/19/12 at 12:09pm
How does the pink cake not get dry?
etch_zee 11/26/12 at 3:12am
ohh wow!! can this be done in red velvet cake as well ? if i cut out reds from red velvet and make the other batter without any red color...just wondering
heartsongcakes 11/28/12 at 1:47am
Amazing tutorial karmarie. Thank you for sharing :).
Cake Central, you should give credit to the original people who create and post these tutorials! Unfair to repost and not even mention the person who worked hard to put this together.
ZuckerEngel 12/9/12 at 5:59am
WOW! Thanks for your tutorial. Once i bought a cake pan from w**** with a heart inside, but it dont worked. But I´m sure yout tutorial will!! :)
dolcettidimamma 12/11/12 at 9:35pm
wow! i will give it a try one day :)
MChelleCakes 1/13/13 at 4:52pm
This is great! Thanks!
d58daniels 2/4/13 at 5:55am
made a cake yesterday with your tutorial. worked great. thanks
sunshinelala 2/7/13 at 2:40pm
I don't understand how the heart comes out looking right side up when the cake is cut into but they are put on their sides when they are placed in the second pan? please explain I would love to make this.
Wildrose6633 2/9/13 at 2:33pm
Cool Beans need to try this
LisaKinVA 2/10/13 at 2:42pm
@sunshinelala -- she puts the hearts into the 2nd pan upside down, so the pointy edge is up. After the cake is baked, cooled, etc. She flips the cake, so that the bottom of the pan becomes the top of the cake...and the hearts are right-side up :D
sunshinelala 2/11/13 at 5:41pm
@ lisakinva thx a bunch I couldn't tell they were upside down it seemed like it was on the side :)
heysugar504 2/13/13 at 11:44am
@karmarie - Great job! I'm going to try this. CC should give you credit for your hard work on this!
aimeejane 2/21/13 at 1:40am
this is so clever i must try it thank you .
aimeejane 2/21/13 at 2:53am
mine has just done in the oven not sure i got the hearts as wedged as yours but it tastes very nice cant wait to take it out and cut in to it see if i was sucsessful first time round thanks again :)
tootin 2/27/13 at 5:48pm
How clever! I'm going to try this soon
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