Sweetheart Cake Food

SWEETHEART FUDGE CAKE

Steps:

• Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Stir in vanilla. Pour into two greased and floured 9-in. heart-shaped or round baking pans. , Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks., While cakes are still warm, poke several holes in cakes with a meat fork or wooden skewer to within 1/4 in. of bottom. Brush jelly over top and sides of cakes. , In a small saucepan, combine cream and chocolate; cook and stir over low heat until chocolate is melted. Brush over top and sides of cakes several times, allowing mixture to absorb between brushings. Cool completely., In a large bowl, beat frosting until fluffy; fold in whipped topping. Spread frosting between layers and over the top and sides of cake. Garnish with raspberries. Refrigerate for 2 hours before cutting.

SWEETHEART CAKE

Steps:

• Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into mixing bowl.
• Drop in shortening.
• Combine milk and cherry juice and add in a stream to dry mixture.
• Add extracts; beat two minutes.
• Add egg whites; beat two minutes.
• Add cherries and nuts; beat 2 minutes.
• Bake in two greased and floured 9-inch pans at 375 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
• Frost when cool using a plain butter frosting, replacing liquid with cherry juice.
• Decorate with cup up cherries.

SWEETHEART CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a standard muffin tin with paper cupcake liners.
• Beat the cake mix, water, vegetable oil, and egg whites together on low speed for 30 seconds, then on medium for 2 minutes, until smooth. Fill cupcake liners 1/3 full with white batter; set aside.
• Stir 4 drops of red food coloring into the remaining bowl of batter to make the batter pink. Stir in the raspberry oil. Pour 1/3 of pink batter into a resealable plastic bag and set aside.
• Mix more food coloring into the remaining bowl of pink batter until it is an orange/red color and pour the batter into a resealable plastic bag. Cut a corner off the bag, stick the open tip into the center of each cup of white batter and squeeze in about two tablespoons of red batter.
• Cut the corner off the bag with the pink batter, stick the open tip into the center of the red batter and squeeze about 1 tablespoon pink batter into each cup.
• Bake the layered cupcakes in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool completely before frosting.