Baking · Finnish

Valentine's Day Cake

Name: Valentine's Day Cake
Cook time: 75 min
Total time: 75 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Finnish
Ingredients: 2 dl wheat flour; 1.5 dl sugar; 0.5 dl cocoa powder dark; 1 tsp leavening powder; 100 g butter; 1 dl milk; 1 egg; 75 g dark baking chocolate 70 %; 0.6666666666666666 tub Finnish raspberries 175 g each · frozen; 1 tsp butter; 1 tbsp cocoa powder dark; 50 g butter; 1 tub unflavored cream cheese 180 g; 1.5 dl icing sugar; 2 tsp vanilla sugar; 0.5 tsp pink gel food coloring; 0.5 pack jelly hearts 180 g each; 0.3333333333333333 tub Finnish raspberries 175 g each · frozen; 6 small white meringues; 25 g dark baking chocolate 70 %

Valentine's Day cake is frosted pink and decorated cutely with hearts! The easy mix-in-one-bowl chocolate cake batter requires no mixers.

Smarrig Kitchen1y

Machine-translated, original language: Suomi.

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Method

1
Line the bottom of a springform pan (⌀ 20–22 cm) with parchment paper, clamping it between the bottom and the rim. Grease the sides of the pan and dust with cocoa powder.
2
Mix the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, and baking powder together in a large bowl.
3
Melt the butter in the microwave. Add the melted butter, milk, and egg to the flour mixture and stir until smooth.
4
Save one row of chocolate and about 1/3 of a tub of raspberries for decoration. Coarsely chop the chocolate. Crumble the largest raspberries slightly smaller with a knife or by hand. Gently fold the chocolate and raspberries into the batter. Avoid overmixing so the batter does not become tough. Pour the batter into the pan.
5
Bake the cake on the lowest rack of a 200-degree oven for about 30–35 minutes. Check doneness with a toothpick. Let cool.
6
Melt the butter for the frosting in the microwave and let it cool slightly. Add the cream cheese, icing sugar, and vanilla sugar to the butter and mix. Color the frosting pink with the gel food coloring.
7
Spread the frosting over the cake. Transfer to the refrigerator for a short while (about 15 minutes) to set.
8
Decorate the cake with jelly hearts, raspberries, meringues, and chopped chocolate.