The Ultimate Valentines Cake

  Hello everybody!

  This weeks blog is a Valentine's bake! Since it is nearly Valentine's Day I thought I'd do a lovely bake for this special day! I call it the "Ultimate Valentines Cake" because it really is spectacular! It is a red velvet sponge with ... love and kisses decorations! If you want to find out how to bake this, carry on reading...

    

Serves: 12-15
Prep time: 10 minutes to prep the cake, 20 minutes to decorate
Cook time: 30-35 minutes   

  Ingredients:
 Betty Crocker Red Velvet cake mix
 Betty Crocker Vanilla Buttercream Style Icing
 4 packs White chocolate fingers
 Heart shape Haribo sweets (I picked mine out of 2 large packets of Haribo Starmix)
 Gummy lip sweets
 105ml vegetable oil (7 tbsp)
 200ml water
 3 medium free range eggs
 1 tub of Betty Crocker Rich Cream Cheese Style or Vanilla Icing
 1 large heart shaped baking pan or 2 x 8" well-greased cake tins or 2 x regular muffin trays & cupcake cases    

Method:   
The cake:
 1. Mix the eggs, oil, water and cake mix gently together and whisk (by hand or electric mixer) for 2-3 minutes until smooth and creamy.
 2. Pour the cake mixture evenly into your greased heart shape cake tin.
 3. Bake in the centre of the oven for 30-35 minutes or until a rounded knife inserted into centre of the cake comes out clean. Then cool on a wire rack.  

The buttercream:
 1. Pop the top - it's ready to use! Make sure it's at room temperature for the perfect finish.
 2. Stir the Icing with a rounded knife.
 3. Spread or pipe onto your cooled Betty Crocker cake or cupcakes for an instant beautifying treatment.     

Decorating:
 1. Cut the white chocolate fingers to a length slightly higher than the height of the cake and stick them around the edge of the cake.
 2. Randomly place the heart shaped Haribo sweets and the gummy lip sweets on the top of the cake.

    

That's all for this week's blog! Even if you don't celebrate Valentine's Day I still think it is a lovely cake to make! I was so happy with the final product! If you do celebrate Valentines I hope you have a wonderful and loving day! Love you all! <3
   Byyeee!!!!