Heart-Shaped Decorated Cake

Name: Heart-Shaped Decorated Cake
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 15 cm sponge cake (Recipe: 1454721); 150 grams Heavy cream; 10 grams Sugar; 75 grams Strawberries (raw, frozen, or strawberry sauce); 50 grams Water; 20 grams Sugar; 3 Strawberries for the filling; 1 Strawberries for the decoration

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I had some strawberries and pink macarons laying around and thought that I could probably make a cute cake with them.

If you have a heart-shaped cake mold, don't hesitate to use it. It saves time and trouble. For 1 15 cm [5.9 in] heart cake. Recipe by nyonta

I had some strawberries and pink macarons laying around and thought that I could probably make a cute cake with them.

If you have a heart-shaped cake mold, don't hesitate to use it. It saves time and trouble. For 1 15 cm [5.9 in] heart cake. Recipe by nyonta

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

I had some strawberries and pink macarons laying around and thought that I could probably make a cute cake with them.

If you have a heart-shaped cake mold, don't hesitate to use it. It saves time and trouble. For 1 15 cm [5.9 in] heart cake. Recipe by nyonta

I had some strawberries and pink macarons laying around and thought that I could probably make a cute cake with them.

If you have a heart-shaped cake mold, don't hesitate to use it. It saves time and trouble. For 1 15 cm [5.9 in] heart cake. Recipe by nyonta

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Ingredients

115 cm sponge cake (Recipe: 1454721)
Strawberry Cream
150 gramsHeavy cream
10 gramsSugar
75 gramsStrawberries (raw, frozen, or strawberry sauce)
Syrup
50 gramsWater
20 gramsSugar
Decoration and Filling
3Strawberries for the filling
1Strawberries for the decoration

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Steps

1

First, bake the sponge cake and slice it into 3 pieces.
2

Fold a piece of paper in half and draw half of a heart. Draw it big enough to use up as much of the 15cm cake as you can.
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Open up the paper and place on the sponge cake. Match the size of the paper to the cake and cut out the heart. Cut it gently and slowly with a bread knife...
4

Cut all three pieces of cake.
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Put the syrup ingredients in an appropriately sized container and microwave for 1 minute (or until the sugar dissolves). Let cool.
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Whip together the heavy cream and sugar. Mix in the strawberries which have been crushed into a puree-like texture. (If using sauce, just mix it in as is.)
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Now, it's time to assemble it! Spread the syrup onto the first layer of cake.
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Smoothly spread on the cream. There are no strawberries in this layer, so you can use lots of cream!
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Place on the second layer of cake and spread again with syrup.
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Spread with some cream and place 4 sliced strawberries on top. 3 strawberries are fine, too. Cover the strawberries with enough cream to hide them.
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Smooth out the cream and place the last sheet of sponge cake on top. Spread with syrup.
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Cover the entire cake with the remaining cream. You don't have to spread it on nicely.
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Use a palette knife of the back of a spoon to smear the cream to get an uneven texture, as seen in the photo.
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Once the nappe has been finished, move the cake to a plate, decorate however you wish, and it's done!
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Cross-section view. I also made it with 2 layers of strawberries!
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I always put the remaining cake and cream into cups and use them as taste-testers.
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