Valentine's Day Cake

So there's this tv show (Studio 5) that I like to watch in the mornings, when life permits, and I caught an excellent recipe the other day! I'm so excited to make it. It's a cake that on the outside looks rather boring. Just a plain old white cake. But when you cut into it there is a HEART! in every slice! A pretty, red, scrumptious heart. In the middle of your piece of cake. I just can't get over it.

Now, I don't usually get all into Valentine's Day. I typically think of it as just another stupid commercial "holiday" that gives people the excuse to feel that they deserve to be pampered and spoiled in increasingly ridiculous ways and then get mad when the boy doesn't realize he's are obligated to encourage such silly notions. Or as many of my single friends called it: "Single-Awareness Day." However. This cake may have changed my mind just a little bit.

So the plan is to make lasagna - Dave's favorite dinner - and have this cake for dessert. It'll be fun to see his reaction when he sees the inside.

So how is it done you ask? Well for anyone else that wants to make this fun surprise cake for their honey, here's the to do list. And really it is quite simple. :) All you need is 2 white cake mixes, 1 red velvet cake, 2 toothpicks, a bit of string, and some frosting.

Using the 2 white cake mixes, make 2 two-layer cakes (frosted inbetween but not on the outside) and freeze them. 8 or 9 inch I believe they should be. Then place a toothpick in the middle of the first cake poking out most of the way and place another toothpick about 1/2-1 inch from the edge of the cake. Tie the toothpicks together using floss or string or whatever and hold the middle toothpick in place while drawing a circle all the way around the edge of your cake. It's basically a protractor drawing a circle guide on the top of your cake. Repeat on the other cake.

Now you have 2 two-layer cakes with a circle on top. Grab a METAL heart shaped cookie cutter and draw a line on the side of the cutter with a sharpie about in the middle. On your first cake, use the cutter, buried up to the line on the side, to gouge out the bottom of the heart shape all the way around the cake, using the guide to make sure it's straight. Flip the cutter over and do the top half on the other cake. When you place the second cake upside-down on top of the first cake it makes a heart shaped hole in the middle.

Then you take your red velvet cake - already cooked and crumbled - and you mix in frosting like you would to make a cake pop. Which they suggested you do with the leftovers. Then you shove the red velvet crumbles into the heart shaped hole you made, put the 2 cakes together, frost, and voila! You have a surprise heart cake!