Heart-Shaped Decorated Cake
- 1 15 cm sponge cake (Recipe: 1454721)
- 150 grams Heavy cream
- 10 grams Sugar
- 75 grams Strawberries (raw, frozen, or strawberry sauce)
- 50 grams Water
- 20 grams Sugar
- 3 Strawberries for the filling
- 1 Strawberries for the decoration
- First, bake the sponge cake and slice it into 3 pieces.
- Fold a piece of paper in half and draw half of a heart.
- Draw it big enough to use up as much of the 15cm cake as you can.
- Open up the paper and place on the sponge cake.
- Match the size of the paper to the cake and cut out the heart.
- Cut it gently and slowly with a bread knife...
- Cut all three pieces of cake.
- Put the syrup ingredients in an appropriately sized container and microwave for 1 minute (or until the sugar dissolves).
- Let cool.
- Whip together the heavy cream and sugar.
- Mix in the strawberries which have been crushed into a puree-like texture.
- (If using sauce, just mix it in as is.)
- Now, it's time to assemble it!
- Spread the syrup onto the first layer of cake.
- Smoothly spread on the cream.
- There are no strawberries in this layer, so you can use lots of cream!
- Place on the second layer of cake and spread again with syrup.
- Spread with some cream and place 4 sliced strawberries on top.
- 3 strawberries are fine, too.
- Cover the strawberries with enough cream to hide them.
- Smooth out the cream and place the last sheet of sponge cake on top.
- Spread with syrup.
- Cover the entire cake with the remaining cream.
- You don't have to spread it on nicely.
- Use a palette knife of the back of a spoon to smear the cream to get an uneven texture, as seen in the photo.
- Once the nappe has been finished, move the cake to a plate, decorate however you wish, and it's done!
- Cross-section view.
- I also made it with 2 layers of strawberries!
- I always put the remaining cake and cream into cups and use them as taste-testers.
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cake, heavy cream, sugar, strawberries, water, sugar, strawberries, strawberries
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/170821-heart-shaped-decorated-cake (may not work)