Last 2 years was worst for all of us & for the entire globe. So this year let's create history. Let's pamper and surprise our loved ones with some extra special delicacies which would make them happier, this valentine

Hidden-Heart Black Forest Pound Cake

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By Sudeshna Das

Feb, 10th

744

Servings
5 persons
Cook Time
1 hr
Ingredients
20 - 22

Ingredients

  • For Pink Heart Cake
  • Half cup aata/maida
  • 1/4 th cup castor sugar
  • 3 tsp butter
  • 1/4 th cup curd
  • 1/4 th tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • Pink/Red food colour, as required
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla essence
  • 1/4 th cup milk
  • For Black Forest Cake
  • Half cup hot milk
  • 1/4 th cup dark chocolate compound/choco-chips
  • 1 tsp instant coffee powder
  • 1/4 th cup oil
  • 1/4 th cup sugar
  • Half cup condensed milk
  • 3/4 th cup flour
  • 1/4 th cup cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • Half tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp chocolate essence

Instructions

  • Firstly for making a red-heart cake, take the milk and add few drops of pink/red food color to it. Mix it and keep it aside.
  • Then take a bowl and add curd, sugar & butter and mix everything well. Then keep a strainer over it and add all the dry ingredients like flour, baking powder & baking soda. Give everything a good mix by slowly and gradually adding the pink milk mixture into it.
  • Now grease a cake tin and pour the mixture into it. Now for pre-heating, take a Kadai with its base covered with salt and a stand over it. Cover it and pre-heat the Kadai for 3 mins on high flame and then 5 mins. on medium flame.
  • Then place the cake-tin over the stand and bake it on a low flame for about 20 mins.
  • Let the cake come to room temperature then demould it. Cut it with a help of heart-shaped cutter. Now keep these mini-hearts aside.
  • Now let's go for the black-forest cake. In a large bowl, add hot milk, choco-chips & coffee powder. Give everything a good mix.
  • Then add oil, sugar & condensed milk to it. Combine everything well.
  • Now keep a strainer over it and add flour, baking powder, baking soda & cocoa powder to it. Combine everything well. Then add chocolate essence to it & mix it once again.
  • Now for pre-heating, take a kadai with it's base covered with salt and a stand over it. Cover it and pre-heat the kadai for 3 mins on high flame and then 5 mins. on medium flame.
  • Now grease a cake tin with some oil and pour 1/4th cake batter into it. Now horizontally put all the pink-hearts in a row, as shown in the image below.
  • Gently pour the rest of the black-forest batter into it, as shown in the image below.
  • Now after 7 to 8 mins of pre-heating, place the cake tin over the stand, cover the kadai and bake it on a low flame for about 30 to 40 mins.
  • Demould the cake once it comes to the room temperature.
  • Now cut them into pieces as shown in the image. You will notice a beautiful heart, hidden in each piece of the cake.
  • Enjoy this exciting recipe with your loved ones, this valentine..❤️❤️❤️❤️

Notes/Tips

The first step, in the ingredients section is for making pink cake and from the black forest section, the below ingredients are for making black forest cake...