Easy Valentines Cake ari/Sig

Name: Easy Valentines Cake *ari*/Sig
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 dough as follows; 2 eggs; 2 egg yolk; 80 grams sugar; 2 tbsp lemon juice; 1 zest of whole lemon; 150 grams just melted butter; 225 grams plain flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 filling for cake as followes; 3 tbsp rasberry liqueur; 1/2 glass rasberry jam; 400 grams strawberries, cleaned and sliced; 1 for decoration; 1 medium amount of thick cream for decoration; 1 small amount lemonbalm or mint leaf

Sigrun @sigrun

German, living in England

I adapted the recipe to a alcohol free one here :-)

Sigrun @sigrun

German, living in England

I adapted the recipe to a alcohol free one here :-)

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Ingredients

12 servings

1dough as follows
2eggs
2egg yolk
80 gramssugar
2 tbsplemon juice
1zest of whole lemon
150 gramsjust melted butter
225 gramsplain flour
1 tspbaking powder
1filling for cake as followes
3 tbsprasberry liqueur
1/2glass rasberry jam
400 gramsstrawberries, cleaned and sliced
1for decoration
1 mediumamount of thick cream for decoration
1 smallamount lemonbalm or mint leaf

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Steps

1

Mix all ingredients for dough one after the other together,ensuring that the butter has cooled, but not hardened again.Carefully mix until smooth.
2

Grease and flour a heart shaped cake tin of medium size with the doughmix and bake in preheated oven at 180c bottom shelf for about 45 minutes.Leave to stand for about 5-10 minutes to cool, then loosen edges with a thin knife and take the cake out of tin to cool.After cooling cut in half for a top and bottom heartshape
3

Mix jam and liqueur, heat slightly, and spread this mixture over bottom half leaving just enough to thinly spread over tophalf,cover with tophalf, push down slighty,spread thinly with jam mixture.cut the strawberries into slices and overlap like tiles to decorate cake.For decoration pipe thick cream alongside top and bottom of cake.decorate with lemonbalm or little mint leaf.
4

I have adapted this recipe to a none alcoholic version for children. I added a good tablespoon of powdered best chocolate to the dough and have made a chocolate butter icing to fill the cake.I added strawberries then topped with a strawberry jelly. I added the baked top and again spread the cake with butter icing, strawberries and strawberry jelly. I grated dark chocolate and added white chocolate stars. I decorated the sides with candy flowers.