Make a Heart Cake with ease and add sweetness to any celebration! Follow simple steps and use basic ingredients to create a beautiful, delicious treat everyone will love.
Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease pan with baker’s spray.
Combine the cake mix, vegetable oil, vanilla, sour cream, heavy cream, and eggs in a large bowl.
1 box of cake mix*, ½ cup vegetable oil, 2 tbs vanilla, ¾ cup sour cream, ¾ cup heavy cream, 4 large eggs
Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes, scraping down the sides when needed.
Pour into prepared heart shaped pan* and bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. If the cake starts to brown cover with foil and finish baking.
Allow cake to cool before removing from pan. To remove just flip the cake over and allow gravity to help it come out.
While cake is cooling make frosting.
Vanilla Buttercream*
Cream butter using a stand mixer.
1 cup butter
Mix in vanilla, then add in powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, alternating with heavy cream 1 tbs at a time. If the frosting is too stiff add a little heavier cream (~1 tbs at a time), if it’s to lose add a little more powdered sugar (~¼ cup at a time). Stir in salt.
5 cups powdered sugar, 1 tbs vanilla, 5 tbs heavy cream + more if needed, Pinch of Salt
Remove ~½ cup frosting, add pink food coloring* and stir until fully incorporated.
Pink food coloring
Frost Cake
Cut the cake in half to create two layers.
Spread a nice layer of vanilla butter cream on the first half, then stack the second layer on top.
Spread the remaining white buttercream over the cake.
Place pink frosting in a baggie with the corner cut off, or a piping bag, and draw a heart on top of the cake. Sprinkle top of cake with sprinkles.
Sprinkles*
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Notes
Tips and Tricks
*If you don't have a heart pan see how to make a heart in the post above.
*I used strawberry cake mix for this but you can use any flavor, or even make one from scratch (here is my buttermilk chocolate cake- just halve the recipe)!
*I used White Sanding Sugar and Valentine Heart Sprinkles
* This is my doctored cake box recipe, which makes the boxed mix taste homemade. However, if you don’t have sour cream or heavy cream, simply follow the recipe on the back of the box and bake accordingly.
* This recipe makes just enough to frost the cake with one layer of frosting- no crumb coat. If you want a smoother finish with a crumb coat you will need to double the frosting amount.
*You can also add a drop or two of strawberry flavoring to the pink frosting if you would like a fun extra flavor.