Heart Shaped Layer Cake

Your love is a many-layered thing, and now you can express it in a deliciously whimsical format with our Easy Layers! Cake Pan Set and this elegantly monochromatic color scheme. Easy enough for a beginner decorator, it's a sweet heart shaped cake they'll remember.

Skill LevelIntermediate

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Favorite Chocolate Cake Mix or Recipe
White Decorator Icing - 4.5 lb.
Pink Icing Color, 1 oz.
Rose Icing Color, 1 oz. - Pink Food Coloring

Tools
Non-Stick Cooling Grid - 14.5 x 20-Inch - Cooling Rack
Open Star Cake Decorating Tip 1M
Extra Large Round Tip 1A
Standard Open Star Tip 32
12-Inch Disposable Cake Decorating Bags, 50-Count Pastry Bags
Easy Layers! Heart Cake Pan Set
Round Cake Decorating Tip 12
Open Star Cake Decorating Tip 21
No. 4B Open Star Piping Tip

Instructions

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Bake and cool cake. Bake cake in Easy Layers! Heart Pan Set and let cool on cooling grid.
Tint buttercream. Use the Pink and Rose icing colors to tint 1/3 cup icing each in three shades of pink, and three shades of rose (2 cups total of colored icing, plus 1/2 cup of desired filling).
Assemble decorating bags. Fit each decorating bag with one of the six tips listed, and then fill each with one shade of icing.
Assemble the cake. As you layer your cake and filling, use the decorating bags to randomly pipe stars, dots and rosettes along the edges between the layers.
Decorate the top layer. Cover the entire top layer in alternating pink and rose shades of stars, dots and rosettes.