Special Cakes Recipes - Double Heart Engagement Cake Recipe

  
 

Special Occasion Cakes Recipes - Double Heart Engagement Cake

Ingredients

  • 350g/12oz plain chocolate

  • 2 x 20cm/8in heart-shaped chocolate sponge cakes

  • 675g/3 cups coffee-flavor butter icing

  • icing sugar, for dusting

  • fresh raspberries, to decorate

MATERIALS/EQUIPMENT

  • 2 X 23cm/9in heart-shaped cake boards

Method:

  1. Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of hot water. Pour the chocolate on to a smooth, non-porous surface and spread it out with a palette knife. Leave to cool until just set, but not hard.

  2. To make the chocolate curls, hold a large sharp knife at a 45 degree angle to the chocolate and push it along the chocolate in short sawing movements. Leave to set on greaseproof paper.

  3. Cut each cake in half horizontally. Use one-third of the butter icing to sandwich the cakes together. Use the remaining icing to coat the tops and sides of the cakes.

  4. Place the cakes on the cake boards. Generously cover the tops and sides of the cakes with the chocolate curls, pressing them gently into the butter icing.

  5. Sift a little icing sugar over the top of each cake and decorate with raspberries. Chill until ready to serve.