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  • Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon Today we are making this cute and colourful

  • heart inside cake. A few of you sent me pictures of similar style

  • of cake that you'd seen on tablespoon.com and that particular one was made by Beth from

  • the blog Hungry Happenings she'd made it for them and they were both happy for me to make

  • it for you, so here we go.

  • Firstly mix 3 packets of cake mix together and add the required ingredients according

  • to the packet and then mix it together.

  • Then split that mixture evenly between 5 different bowls.

  • And then it is time to add your colour, now you are going to need to be fairly generous

  • here or the shape is not going to stand out from the plain cake. So these colours need

  • to be reasonable dark.

  • Once your happy with the colours place them into sandwhich bags, twist the top and cut

  • off the corners.

  • Squeeze out some of your coloured mix onto a tray lined with non-stick paper. Then swap

  • to the next colour, and swirl that all over the tray and keep going. Now for this tye

  • died mixing effect Beth actually learnt this idea from another website handmadecharlotte.com

  • and one of their contributors Sandra who actually heads up the art department at a uni in Kansas

  • came up with this technique for the cake that she made there.

  • Keep adding more and then once you are done tap the tray on the bench to get rid of any

  • air pockets.

  • Place it in the oven and then bake it until it is cooked all the way through.

  • Once it is cooled remove it from the tray and trim off the top browned layer using a

  • knife or a cake leveler.

  • Take the cutter and cut out a heart or whatever shape you have chosen and then the base base

  • off the shape because we don't want browned cake to be down the middle of our cake. Now

  • obviously as I said you can use any shape you like just make sure that it will fit into

  • your tin, that it is not too tall for your cake tin. Place them on a tray and once we've

  • cut them all we are going to freeze them. This particular amount of mixture made enough

  • hearts to do two of these cakes. So if you're only wanting to make one you could cut it

  • in half.

  • Line a loaf pan with foil and bring the sides up higher than the actual pan so the mixture

  • will not overflow in the oven.

  • Make up two more packets of vanilla cake mix. Place two cups of mixture in the base of the

  • dish. Now I baked this for 10 minutes because the shape tends to sink and I don't want it

  • right on the bottom I want it more in the middle. After this time it will not yet be

  • cooked but will have formed a light skin on the top. Add some mixture down the centre

  • of that, that's going to go into that little dip in the centre of the heart. And then stack

  • your hearts and place them top side down into centre of the tin. If the edges of your dish

  • are sloped out like mine you may need to cut one of them on an angle for the last one.

  • So that you can pack them in tightly, that's going to help hold them into place. Cover

  • over the whole thing with more cake mixture. And then bake in the oven.

  • One it is done let it cool then trim off the outer browned layer so that it leaves nice

  • straight sides. Cover the whole thing in frosting, I am using

  • the one that came with the packet mix. Once it is smooth place it in the fridge.

  • To make our tye died frosting take a snake of each of the colours that you have chosen

  • and gently twist and squash it together, then twist it a bit more and squash it together

  • and then roll it out. I used neon food colours for this which I have not used before and

  • I thought it had a really metallic taste to them. It is up to you if you want to use them

  • that's fine otherwise just use normal food colours. Everyone else who ate it thought

  • it was fine I just thought it had a bit of an after taste to it.

  • Lift it up and place it over the cake. Trim off the excess, when you get to the corners

  • squash them together to seal it and then use scissors to cut down the join. Gently rub

  • it with your finger just along the cut there to smooth the edge. Add you candles and cut

  • to reveal your colourful heart shape in the middle.

  • If this cake was made for you and delivered to your door with a bunch of flowers, who

  • would you like it to be from? Let me know in the comments.

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  • I'll see you on Friday. [music: The Boat Song by youtube.com/setsailtv used with permission]

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