Valentine is coming up but I have to admit that our family really never celebrate this tradition. For this reason, our home will never be overloaded with red roses, large heart-shaped chocolate boxes or long love letters on light pink paper. Although, all that could be quite nice. But no, it has never (and will probably never) been a part of us.
But I do like the  idea of ​​celebrating love and those you love. So that’s what I’m going to do. Not big and pompous, but small and simple. Us five, a heart shaped Red Velvet cake with lots of raspberries, blueberries and unlimited love. On Valentine’s Day or any other day.

Recipe

You will need:

• 350 ml/1,5 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 350 ml/1,5 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 0,5 tsp salt
• 1 tbs cacoa
• 1 tsb vanilla extract
• 1 tbs apple cider vinegar
• 100 ml/0,5 cups rapeseed oil
• 250 ml/1 cup buttermilk
• 1-2 tbs food coloring
• Zest from 1 lime
• Raspberries
• Blueberries
• Freeze dried raspberries

How to:

  1. Heat oven to 350°F /175°C.
  2. Lightly grease two 7-inch / 18 cm cake pans with butter.
  3. Beat sugar and eggs until light and fluffy.
  4. Sift together the dry ingredients and stir in the batter along with vinegar, oil and buttermilk. Add the food coloring and whisk to a smooth batter.
  5. Divide batter among the 2 prepared pans and bake for about 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
  6. Cool on a wire rack completely.
  7. Sift the icing sugar into the cream cheese and beat until smooth. If frosting is too thin, add more icing sugar and beat again until reaching your desired consistency. Add lime zest.
  8. Make a heart-shaped template out of paper.
  9. Cut the two cakes after the template so that you have two heart-shaped cakes and trim the top on both cakes.
  10. Transfer one cake onto a serving dish/plate.
  11. Pipe the cake with frosting using a round piping tip. Place second cake layer on top and pipe the top of the cake just the same.
  12. Garnish with raspberry and blueberries. Sprinkle with freeze dried raspberries and some icing suger over the cake just before serving.