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heart birthday cake
Natacha

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
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes
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.