Name: Surprise Inside Chocolate Hearts Cake recipe by Jyothi Rajesh at BetterButter
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 200 min
Total time: 245 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: Perfect Pound Cake –; Milk – 4 tablespoon; Eggs – 3 Large; Pure vanilla extract – 1 1/2 teaspoons; Sifted cake flour – 150 gms; Sugar – 150 grams; Baking powder – 3/4 teaspoon; Salt – 1/4 teaspoon; Unsalted butter – 180 gms, softened; Red food color – 1 tspn; Perfect All-American Chocolate Butter Cake –; Dutch-processed Cocoa powder – 60 gms; Boiling water – 250 gms; Eggs – 3 Large; Pure vanilla extract – 2 1/4 teaspoon; Sifted all purpose flour – 235 gms; Sugar – 300 gms; Baking powder – 1 tablespoon; Salt – 3/4 teaspoon; Unsalted butter – 227 gms, Softened; Extra – Dark chocolate – 100 gms, chopped; Butter – 1 tspn

Ingredients Serving: 6

Perfect Pound Cake –
Milk – 4 tablespoon
Eggs – 3 Large
Pure vanilla extract – 1 1/2 teaspoons
Sifted cake flour – 150 gms
Sugar – 150 grams
Baking powder – 3/4 teaspoon
Salt – 1/4 teaspoon
Unsalted butter – 180 gms, softened
Red food color – 1 tspn
Perfect All-American Chocolate Butter Cake –
Dutch-processed Cocoa powder – 60 gms
Boiling water – 250 gms
Eggs – 3 Large
Pure vanilla extract – 2 1/4 teaspoon
Sifted all purpose flour – 235 gms
Sugar – 300 gms
Baking powder – 1 tablespoon
Salt – 3/4 teaspoon
Unsalted butter – 227 gms, Softened
Extra – Dark chocolate – 100 gms, chopped
Butter – 1 tspn

Instructions

Perfect Pound Cake – I used a 9×4 inch loaf pan, greased with butter and lined parchment paper. Pre heat the oven to 150 centigrade
Add eggs in a bowl and whisk until they are broken down. Next add milk and vanilla essence and whisk again.
Add all the dry ingredients – flour, baking powder, salt and sugar into another bowl. Add butter and 1/4 part of the egg mixture and beat until the dry ingredients have been moistened up.
Increase the speed to high and beat for 1 minute and 30 seconds. Now add the rest of the egg mixture and beat.
Add red food color and whisk until the color gets well incorporated into the cake dough.
Pour the batter into the prepared loaf tin and smooth the top. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 30 to 40 minutes at 180 degree C. A toothpick inserted into the center of the cake should come out clean. Cool on wire rack.
Cling wrap the cake and freeze it for 2 hours to overnight.
Perfect All-American Chocolate Butter Cake (With a surprise inside) Pre-heat oven to 150 degree C. Line up 6 inch by 12 inch loaf pan with butter paper on the bottom and sides of the pan. Grease the paper with butter.
To cocoa powder add boiling water and mix well with a spoon until no lumps are left. Whisk the eggs together in a bowl.
To the eggs add 1 part of cocoa and whisk until weel combined. Add cake flour, baking powder, sugar and salt in the bowl of your electric beater.
Add softened butter into the dry mixture. Add the remaining cocoa mixture along with butter and start beating on medium speed. Beat on medium just until the dry ingredients are moistened.
Increase speed to high and beat for 1 minute and 30 seconds.
Add the egg and cocoa mixture in 3 parts, beating for 20 seconds on medium speed after each addition. Pour the batter in the prepared loaf tin and fill just half of the tin.
Remove the frozen vanilla pound cake and slice them into 1/2 inch thickness. Use heart cookie cutter and cut them into heart shapes.
Start placing the heart shaped pound cakes into the half filled loaf pan. Make sure to place them next to each other. Try not to push it down, place them with very little pressure.
Finish arranging all the hearts.
Now pour the remaining batter and fill the pan 3/4th full. If you have remaining batter, use them to make cupcakes.
Smooth out the top and tap down few times to release any air bubbles.
Bake in pre-heated oven for 40 to 50 minutes at 150 degree C. A tooth pick inserted into the center of the cake should come out clean.
Cool on wire rack. Once completely cooled, pour melted dark chocolate ganache(melt dark chocolate in microwave, add 1 tspn of butter and mix well) and allow it to set.
Surprise your loved ones with this cake, Cut the cake in front of them. :D Happy Valentine’s day to every one.

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