Charming Heart Shaped Birthday Cake

This romantic heart shaped birthday cake creates an iconic heart silhouette using standard round and square baking pans. Sweet cherry juice tints the cake natural pink. Silky almond buttercream borders each romantic curve.

Bake one square eight-inch cake and one round eight-inch cake using cherry buttermilk batter. Cut round cake in half and align halves against top edges of square cake. Cover smoothly in pink frosting.

Pipe vintage shell borders around edges using a star piping tip. Add candy cherries on top before serving to guests. For another festive celebration dessert, bake this gluten free black forest cake.

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Charming Heart Shaped Birthday Cake

Pretty pink cherry vanilla cake shaped like a heart and decorated with retro shell borders.

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Prep Time 25 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 55 minutes mins

Servings: 12 slices

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

Pink Cherry Cake

• 2 ½ cups cake flour
• 1 ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ cup butter, softened
• 1 ⅓ cups sugar
• 3 large egg whites
• ¾ cup buttermilk
• ⅓ cup maraschino cherry juice
• 1 tsp almond extract

Almond Buttercream

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 3 tbsp heavy cream

Method

 

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and grease one 8-inch square pan and one 8-inch round pan.
2. Beat butter and sugar until creamy, then beat in egg whites, cherry juice, and almond extract.
3. Stir in cake flour, baking powder, salt, and buttermilk alternately until smooth.
4. Divide batter between the two pans and bake for 30 minutes until clean tester emerges.
5. Cool cakes, cut round cake in half, and place halves against adjacent sides of square to form a heart.
6. Frost entire heart shape with almond buttercream and pipe decorative shells along borders.