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    Home » Blog » Blog Tutorials » Themes and Occasions » Seasonal & Holiday » Winter

    Lots of Love!~ A Valentine's Cake Tutorial

    February 9, 2011 By Melissa Diamond 14 Comments

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    Lots of Love~ Valentine's Cake Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com

    Hi everybody!  I had the best time today working on this Valentine's Day cake tutorial with simple chocolate hearts! Lots of them!

    The idea is really very simple. I started with a "plain jane" cake...just a 6" round frosted in vanilla buttercream with a quick ball border (tip 12).

    The fun part came when it was time to melt the chocolate!  For this project, I used chocolate candy coating .  Here's a picture of my melted red candy melts, bright white merckens candy coating, and some chocolate "bark" coating.

    Any variety of candy coating or melts would work with this cake.  This is just what I had on hand.

    You may want to consider the shade of your candy coating vs. the shade of your buttercream.  For instance if your coating is a bright white and your vanilla buttercream is more yellow (or vice versa) you may be happier with either chocolate frosting or pink frosting for a nicer contrast. My candy coating and frosting were about the same level of white and so it worked well.

     

    Lots of Love! Sweet Valentine's Day Free Cake Decorating Tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com!

    Next, I spooned my melted chocolate into piping bags fitted with a tip 3.  You could also just snip the end off of your parchment cones, but I feel like I have more control when using a piping tip.  I piped many, many hearts with "stems" onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet.

    Lots of Love! A Valentine's Day Cake Tutorial by My Cake School with Chocolate Hearts!

    I kept my bowls of melted chocolate in a warming drawer so that they wouldn't set before I had a chance to use them.  You could also just melt one bowl at a time as needed.

    You can put your cookie sheets (chocolate hearts and all) into a freezer for a few minutes to set.  After doing this, I decided it would be fun to fill some of my open hearts with contrasting colors of chocolate.  Then a put in the freezer for a few more minutes until they had set.

    Lots of Love! A Valentine's Day Cake Tutorial by My Cake School with Chocolate Hearts!

    After the hearts have set....the fun begins!  I let the other hearts continue to chill as I pulled out a few at a time to place onto the cake.Lots of Love! A Valentine's Day Cake Tutorial by My Cake School with Chocolate Hearts!

    More hearts, please....Lots of Love! A Valentine's Day Cake Tutorial by My Cake School with Chocolate Hearts!

    Can you ever have too many hearts on a cake?  I don't think so......  :0)Adorable and simple Valentine's Day Cake by MyCakeSchool.com featuring chocolate hearts! Free cake decorating tutorial!

    Hooray!  It's a heart explosion!  This cake makes me smile. We hope that you'll give it a try!

     

    Valentine's Day Hearts Cake- A free step by step cake tutorial by MyCakeSchool.com

     

    The little chocolate hearts would be adorable as cupcake toppers too!  Make this cake for a few of your favorite people this Valentine's Day...or any day!

     

    Looking for more Valentine's Day cake and cupcake ideas? Find our full roundup of FAVORITE Valentine's Day cakes, tutorials, recipes and ideas here!  My Cake School's FAVORITE Valentine's Day Cake Ideas

     

    A Roundup of our FAVORITE Valentine's Day Cakes, Tutorials, and Recipes! MyCakeSchool.com.

    Valentine's Day Cake and Cupcake Tutorials by MyCakeSchool.com.

     

     

     

     

     

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    1. Rachelle Monchik January 12, 2020 at 9:14 pm

      I don’t see recipe for Valentine cake. One with chocolate hearts. It’s fantastic and I’d love to try.

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    2. Melissa Diamond January 12, 2020 at 9:30 pm

      Hi Rachelle- This was just a six inch layer cake frosted in vanilla buttercream- the steps of what we did (and used) to decorate the cake are in the description-- I'll work on putting the above steps in a printable how-to card to that you can more easily scan through (like our more recent tutorials) ;0) Glad that you like it!

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