Welcome to how to cook that I am Ann Reardon Today we are making a 3D heart inside a cupcake.
So you can cut it from any side and you will have a heart.
Ever since I made the mickey mouse cupcake there have been so many requests for a heart
shaped one.
It's nearly valentines day and it's my wedding anniversary so I thought I'd show you how
to make it.
Preheat your oven to 160C or 320F
Place your flour sugar and salt, gelatin and baking powder into a bowl and stir with a
whisk to aerate the mixture and get rid of any lumps.
If you go the website howtocooktht.net you'll find all of the ingredient quantities there
in grams and ounces and cups and everything ever body needs, I'll put a link in the description
just below the video.
Make a hole in the middle of the flour and add your egg yolks then the oil and then the
water.
Don't stir that just move it to one side.
Take your egg whites and add the cream of tar tar and that just helps stabilize the
egg whites and keep all the air int he once they are whipped up.
If you are thinking can you leave out the gelatin and the cream of tar tar, you can
but the cupcakes won't be as light and fluffy.
Keep whipping until you get soft peaks that look like this and then using the same mixers
whisk up your flour mixture until it is just combined, you don't want to over mix it this
one or you will overdevelop the gluten in the flour and make the cupcakes tough.
Using a spatula fold in one third of the egg whites, then add another third and finally
the last one.
Folding right down to the bottom of the bowl and up round and over the top.
Until you can't see any streaks of white left.
Pour some of your mixture into three cupcake cases.
And bake those three cupcakes in the oven until when you gently press them with your
finger they bounce back.
This will take about 15 minutes.
Allow them to cool just a little bit, they can still be warm and then crumble them into
a bowl making sure you don't have any big lumps of cake.
Add 1 tablespoon of your cake mixture and 1 teaspoon of water.
Then add your chosen colour.
I am adding some red.
Then you need to combine it together by using the spoon to squash it against the side of
the bowl to make sure that you've got that colour mixed all the way through and you don't
have any flecks of just creamy white cupcake left.
You can experiment with this mixture and instead of just adding water add some flavouring or
some concentrated fruit juice so that your hearts have a different flavour to the cake.
Take one teaspoon of your mixture and roll it into a ball, then roll one end to narrow
it into a point.
Using something cone shaped push it down into the top of the heart so that you have almost
like a strawberry shape.
I'll show you that again, take a spoonful of mixture, roll it into a ball, roll one
side between the palms of your hands to make a point then push something into the top to
make the dip in the centre of the heart.
Once you've made all of those.
Place two tablespoons of cupcake mixture into 18 cupcake cases.
You want to bake those in the oven for 4-5 minutes only.
Pull it out of the oven and place a heart in the centre of each one.
At this stage it will be soft in the middle but will of started to bake on the edges so
that will hold our hearts upright and stop them from falling over.
Because the heart shape is of course top heavy Add one tablespoon of cake mixture over the
top of each cupcake.
Then return them to the oven for another 5-7 minutes.
Once they are ready leave them to cool completely before you frost them.
I did a video just a few weeks ago with 7 different frosting recipes, so you can choose
the one that you prefer.
Add some sprinkles to the top of each one and they are ready to serve.
It doesn't matter which side you cut the cupcake from you will have a heart inside.
Personally I never cut cupcakes in half I just bit into them so lets see what it looks
like when you take a bite.
To start with you get a circle and then a heart and then back to a circle.
Lets eat another one.
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