This recipe for mini heart-shaped cakes, with kind permission from Matt Lewis of Baked Bakery, is the perfect treat for your special Valentines Day couple. Source: Martha Stewart Show, Winter 2007. It creates six 4-inch heart-shaped cakes. Yield: Ingredients: 1/4 cup cocoa powder, 2 tablespoons red food coloring, 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature, 1 tablespoon plus 1 1/2 teaspoons vegetable shortening, room temperature, 1 2/3 cups sugar, 3 large eggs, 1 cup buttermilk, 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, 2 1/2 cups cake flour (not self-rising), 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 cup melted dark chocolate for decoration, Spicy glaze. Instructions: 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees with rack in center. Butter an 18-x-13-inch rimmed baking sheet, line with parchment, butter parchment, and set aside. 2. In a medium bowl, whisk together cocoa powder, food coloring, and 1/4 cup boiling water. Set aside to cool. 3. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and shortening on high speed until smooth. Add sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. 4. Beat in cocoa mixture, butter, and vanilla. In another medium bowl, whisk together flour and salt. With mixer on low speed, add flour mixture in three parts, alternating with cocoa mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat until just incorporated. 5. In a small bowl, stir together vinegar and baking soda until soda dissolves; mixture will fizz. Add to batter and stir until just combined. 6. Pour batter into prepared baking sheet and smooth top. Bake until a cake tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean, 20 to 30 minutes, rotating pan halfway through. 7. Cool cake completely on a wire rack. Using a 4-inch heart-shaped cutter, cut out 12 hearts. 8. Place 4 strips of parchment paper around perimeter of a serving platter or lazy Susan. Place one layer on platter. Spread a thin layer of glaze over cake; top with another heart, bottom side up. Repeat
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This recipe for mini heart-shaped cakes, with kind permission from Matt Lewis of Baked Bakery, is the perfect treat for your special Valentines Day couple. Source: Martha Stewart Show, Winter 2007. It creates six 4-inch heart-shaped cakes. Yield: Ingredients: 1/4 cup cocoa powder, 2 tablespoons red food coloring, 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature, 1 tablespoon plus 1 1/2 teaspoons vegetable shortening, room temperature, 1 2/3 cups sugar, 3 large eggs, 1 cup buttermilk, 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, 2 1/2 cups cake flour (not self-rising), 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon vinegar, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 cup melted dark chocolate for decoration, Spicy glaze. Instructions: 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees with rack in center. Butter an 18-x-13-inch rimmed baking sheet, line with parchment, butter parchment, and set aside. 2. In a medium bowl, whisk together cocoa powder, food coloring, and 1/4 cup boiling water. Set aside to cool. 3. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and shortening on high speed until smooth. Add sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. 4. Beat in cocoa mixture, butter, and vanilla. In another medium bowl, whisk together flour and salt. With mixer on low speed, add flour mixture in three parts, alternating with cocoa mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat until just incorporated. 5. In a small bowl, stir together vinegar and baking soda until soda dissolves; mixture will fizz. Add to batter and stir until just combined. 6. Pour batter into prepared baking sheet and smooth top. Bake until a cake tester inserted into center of cake comes out clean, 20 to 30 minutes, rotating pan halfway through. 7. Cool cake completely on a wire rack. Using a 4-inch heart-shaped cutter, cut out 12 hearts. 8. Place 4 strips of parchment paper around perimeter of a serving platter or lazy Susan. Place one layer on platter. Spread a thin layer of glaze over cake; top with another heart, bottom side up. Repeat