I just love a sweet treat and what better time to indulge your sweet tooth than Valentines? Chocolate cakes, cookies, lashings of buttercream and of course chocolate covered strawberries! A home baked treat may well be the way to your Valentines heart. As well as making or buying a gift, I just love to bake something to celebrate the day, plus I get to have some!
Here are a few of my favourite baked treats and how I decorated them.
Cake pops are a fun bite size treat, great if you are trying to be a little good! Plus kids can get involved with the making of these and may even want to give some to class mates.
If you have one of these cake pop makers it makes the process even easier. I showed in this post how to use one along with a post for chocolate (what else?) pops. I used Wilton red candy melts, heart sprinkles and edible glitter.
These lovely looking heart cupcakes are quick and easy to put together.
Make your favourite cupcakes (these are Red Velvet, perfect right?), decorated with a swirl of frosting (cream cheese naturally) and finished off with a red fondant heart. I used a little gold lustre dust on these to give them a little shine. How lovely would it be to received a box of these?
See this post for ways to frost a cupcake.
Another easy idea is to make a batch of your favourite chocolate cupcakes and frost them with chocolate frosting (chocolate on chocolate, what more could you ask for?) then top them with a chocolate heart. These ones were made with white chocolate tinted red with paste colour and molded in a heart shaped mold. You could buy chocolate hearts or make some out of fondant, any idea would be tasty!
If you like to do something a little more fancy, some molded roses just scream Valentines Day! Cupcakes were simply iced and topped with little fondant roses. The cupcake liners were decorated with little ribbon bows. Here is a lovely tutorial for ribbon roses.
If cakes not your thing, cookies are a nice alternative. These chocolate sugar cookies were frosted with royal icing and painted with lustre dust and edible glitter.
A large cake is perfect for a large gathering or if you just want or need a large slice of something sweet! This cake is completely decorated in buttercream with swirls and icing roses. I made these roses using the Wilton method, find the tutorial here.
This final cake contains all my favourite elements, chocolate, cake and strawberries!
How decadent does this look? Strawberries were dipped in plain chocolate and finished with white chocolate swirls. I left the leaves on for some nice contrast to all the dark chocolate! The cake was completely frosted in chocolate using the basketweave method and reverse shell method. The tutorials for these are here and here.
What are you going to make?
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