Valentines heart cake

Valentines heart cake

This valentines marzipan cake consists in sponge cake cut in the shape of a heart and covered with a layer of purple marzipan.

Once the sponge cake had been covered in marzipan, three little heart shapes were cut off from the cake and replaced with three little pink hearts made with the same cutters. Two pink marzipan roses were placed on the cake in order to add color and form to the heart shape.

Valentines cake - click here to see larger picture.

The cake is made using only purple and pink marzipan. The purple comes in two different shades the rose leaves being a darker shade than the rest of the cake. The roses are made by shaping each petal individually and sticking them together starting with the smaller petal at the centre of the rose and progressively moving outwards adding larger petals until the rose takes shape.

marzipan book

Marzipan roses

The best valentine cake designs use a few colors only. When planning what colors to use on a valentines cake it is essential to find colors that will complement each other.