Valentine's Day Cake
- 2 12 cups cake flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 34 cup butter, softened
- 1 12 cups sugar
- 34 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 large egg whites, at room temperature
- 1 (16 ounce) canprepared vanilla, frostin plus
- 1 cup prepared vanilla frosting
- red food coloring
- You will also need: candy sugar hearts, 2 9-inch heart-shaped cake pans, a pastry bag, a small writing tip and a medium round tip.
- MAKING THE CAKE:.
- Preheat the oven to 375~F.
- Grease and flour the pans well.
- In a medium bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
- In a large bowl, useing an electric mixer set on medium speed, beat butter and sugar until fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Alternately add flour mixture and milk, ending with flour mixture, to butter mixture.
- Add vanilla; mix until blended.
- In another bowl, beat egg whites on high speed until stiff, but not dry, peaks form.
- Fold egg shites in to batter until just combined.
- Divide batter evenly between prepared pans.
- Bake cakes until a toothpick comes out clean, 30-35 minutes.
- Transfer pans to a wire rack; cool for 10 minutes.
- Turn cakes into wire rack; cool completely.
- DECORATING THE CAKE:.
- Tint can of vanilla frosting with red food coloring until it is light pink.
- Trim tops off of each cake to make the cake level.
- Place one cake on a serving plate; spread top with 1/2 cup pink frosting.
- Top with remaining cake; frost top and sides with remaining frosting.
- Spoon 1 cup white frosting into a pastry bag fitted with a small writing tip.
- Pike a squiggle design on each cake sides.
- Fit pastry bag with medium round tip and pipe a pearl design around the top edge of cake.
- Pipe dots of frosting 1/2 inch apart around the bottom and 1 inch toward the center on top of the cake.
- Place candy hearts between each piped dot on top.
cake flour, baking powder, salt, butter, sugar, milk, vanilla, egg whites, canprepared vanilla, vanilla frosting, red food coloring
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/valentines-day-cake-186767 (may not work)