Heart-Shaped Decorated Cake - Cake

Method

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