How to Make a Valentine’s Day Cake
You can prepare a heart-shaped Valentine’s Day Cake with ease. To do so, you need just an hour or 2 of your time, and you don’t even have to bake it if you’re not up to it.
Check out this recipe by 5-Minute Crafts for the details.
1. Gather the ingredients.
To make a Valentine’s Day Cake, you need the following ingredients:
- 3/4 ounce (20 grams) of vanilla instant pudding mix
- A cup (approx. 250 ml) of cold milk
- Confectioner’s sugar
- 8 ounces (200 grams) of frozen whipped topping
- A teaspoon or 2 of red food coloring
- 2 cakes — one square, the other round — approximately 26 cm (10 in) long in diameter (you can buy them in a store)
- Optional decorations, such as sprinkles and hearts
Note: This version uses store-bought square cakes and decorations. If you wish to make your cakes at home, you can try this recipe. You’ll then need a round baking dish and a square baking dish to make a heart-shaped cake.
❗️If you have square cakes only, continue to Step 2. If you have or can make a round and a square cake, proceed to Step 3 directly.
2. Turn a square cake into a round one.
If you have square cakes, do the following:
- Unpack both cakes and set one aside.
- Mark the center of each side of the cake. Using those points as a reference, measure 5 cm (2 in) from there to the left and right on horizontal sides or up and down on vertical sides. Repeat this step for all the sides of the cake.
- Use a knife to connect the closest markings of the neighboring sides with a slightly curved line. Lastly, cut corners along the lines to get a round cake.
3. Prepare the filling.
The next step is to prepare the filling you’ll use for coating.
- Combine cold milk, confectioner’s sugar, and the vanilla instant pudding mix in a bowl and beat until the mixture thickens to become velvety.
- Add whipped topping and food coloring to the mix.
- Stir for a few minutes until you mix everything well.
4. Coat the resulting Valentine’s Day cake.
The final steps are:
- Cut the round cake in half.
- Place the halves of the cut cake on 2 adjacent sides of the square cake to get a heart shape.
- Coat the top and the sides of the Valentine’s Day Cake with the filling you prepared earlier.
- Apply decorations any way you wish and enjoy the cake.