Ingredients
All purpose flour - 1 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
Eggs - 2
Vanilla essence - 1 teaspoon
Baking powder - 1 teaspoon
Vegetable oil - 3/8 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Salt - 1/ teaspoon
Pink food colour
For chocolate cake
All purpose flour - 1 1/4 cup
Sugar 1 1/2 cup
Eggs - 2
Vanilla essence - 1 teaspoon
Baking powder - 1 teaspoon
Milk - 1/2 cup
Vegetable oil - 3/8 cup
Salt - 1/2 teaspoon
Coco powder - 30 grams
For topping (optional)
Butter cream frosting
Chocolate shavings
Finely chopped red cherries
Preheat heat oven to 180 degree Celsius. In a bowl, beat egg and sugar until it becomes fluffy. Slowly add flour, vanilla essence, baking powder, salt, milk and vegetable oil. Finally add pink food colour. I have used wilton food colour here. Mix it well. Make sure not to over beat it. Use a rectangle shape cake mould and bake it for 40-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.
Let it cool on a wire rack once it is out of microwave oven. When it is completely cool, cut this cake into 2-3 cm wide slices. And using a heart shaped cookie cutter, cut out heart shapes out of it. Keep it aside.
Now for chocolate cake, follow the same procedure as above. Just you need to skip the pink colour and instead add coco powder. Once the batter is ready, use a rectangular cake mould and arrange these heart shaped cake pieces in the middle of the cake tin. Make sure to leave at least 2 cm on the edges. Once it is arranged in order, Slowly start pouring chocolate cake batter on the sides and top of it. So that the entire heart shapes should cover with this chocolate cake batter. Bake it for 40-45 minutes.
Once it is cool, you can decorate it with butter frosting, chocolate shavings and red cherries which is completely optional. And one thing I have learned after making this cake is, not to use bigger cookie cutter. It will be better if you use medium shaped cookie cutter to get the heart shape. So that the chocolate cake batter will cover it completely. Here, I struggled little bit to cover it with chocolate batter as it was little less and these hearts were little big like my heart...:). But the cake was yummy as always. Please try it out today for your loved ones. Wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day.
Finally I would like to share a pic from The Capgemini Family Cookbook. It was an excellent initiative taken by Capgemini for Chennai Flood relief. I was excited to be a part of this initiative as two of my favourite recipes was posted in this book.
Please find below link for those two recipes.
http://bakemode.blogspot.in/2015/12/pathiri-pancake-rice-flour-malabar.html
http://bakemode.blogspot.in/2015/12/chicken-stew.html
