Heart Cakes

Here is another Valentine idea for you. For this recipe I used a silicon heart shaped muffin tray with a basic vanilla sponge or you could just use normal cupcake cases. It is then up to you how you wish to decorate them. 

Recipe

Makes 12

Ingredients

125g soft margarine

125g golden caster sugar

125g self raising flour

2 medium eggs

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Decoration

100g red ready roll icing

100g white ready roll icing

Apricot glaze (or jam warmed slighty)

Sugar glue, water or buttercream (to stick decorations on)

• Preheat oven to 180C or gas mark 4. Grease your silicon cake tray with vegetable oil or line a bun tray with 12 paper cases.
• Put all ingredients in a bowl and beat together until smooth.
• Divide the mixture between the heart sections in your tray or cupcake cases, if using.
• Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes until springy to the touch. Once cooked leave in tray for 5 minutes before transfering to a wire rack. Leave to cool completely before decorating.
• Using a sharp knife, carefully slice the off the top of the cake to give a smooth flat surface.
• Lightly dust your working surface with some icing sugar and roll out your icing until about 4mm thick. Using a larger heart shaped cutter cut out 6 red and 6 white hearts.
• Brush the tops of your cakes with the warmed apricot glaze and then stick the heart icing on top. Finally, cut out some smaller hearts to decorate and stick on to the icing with sugar glue.