- Hello everybody and welcome back.
Today we are making a Valentine's Day cake.
So this is using yesterday's Valentine's Day candy pops.
Candy pops, chocolate pops, chocolate lollipops?
I'm not sure, but either way,
this cake is covered in Valentine's Day candy.
It's so pretty, it's so pink,
and I'm like, who would say no to this, oh my goodness.
So, let's get started.
Okay, so first we're gonna make the decorations.
You wanna pour some melted pink candy melts
into a heart shaped chocolate mold.
And so I use the cute little eight bit heart mold
from Rosanna Pansino's collaboration with Wilton.
And that will be linked down below if you wanna pick it up.
And then pop the mold into the fridge to chill
until it's ready to be used,
and then we're also going to make some candy lips.
So you wanna get some red candy melts
and any remaining pink candy melts that you have,
'cause like it's not worth just wasting them,
and pour them into a lip shaped chocolate mold
which I'll also try to find for you guys and link below.
Then sprinkle some small sprinkles on top,
and this is just gonna make it so that the back of the lips
are decorative as well as the front.
So, like no matter what angle you look at them,
they're pretty.
Then pop that into the fridge as well, to chill.
Then place some pink and white buttercream
into piping bags fitted with large, round piping tips,
and then just slice the tops and bottoms off the cake layers
and stack everything together on a rotating cake stand.
So I'll have the base recipe for the buttercream
and cake, which is vanilla cake,
linked in the description box below,
as well as in the cards if you wanna check it out.
And then pipe alternating rings
of pink and white buttercream between each layer
so that when you slice it, it looks like little stripes.
It's really cute.
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Then you wanna pipe some horizontal stripes
around the outside of the cake, as well,
and then spread some pink buttercream
onto the top of the cake.
We're just using one solid layer on top of the cake,
or one solid color, it's so much easier to just do that.
(laughs)
Then use a cake spatula to smooth the sides,
and again, I'll link this below.
And you wanna make sure that you wipe the spatula clean
after each time you smooth the icing because,
since the buttercream is striped, if you kind of,
if you run it against the cake again,
and the stripes aren't completely aligned
with the buttercream that's on the spatula,
it's gonna muddy up the entire surface of the cake
and it won't create the clean lines.
So just wipe it off with a paper towel every time you,
like smooth it on the cake, and you're good.
Then just smooth the top of the cake as well.
Then press some chunky Valentine's Day sprinkles
around the bottom three inches of the cake.
I use little heart shaped ones,
but you can use anything that you like.
Then you wanna get some of the remaining white buttercream
and pop it into a piping bag
fitted with a large star shaped piping tip,
this is a number 60 and I will link it below.
And you wanna pipe large, tall dollops
all over the top of the cake
and smaller dollops around the bottom of the cake.
So at the top, it just creates like a little nest
to put all the decorations that we're gonna put.
And at the bottom, I feel like it just kinda
finishes off the cake and looks a little more polished.
Then sprinkle your final variety
of Valentine's Day sprinkles,
because we are using three different kinds
of sprinkles here, 'cause I've accumulated so much,
I'm trying to use them up before I move.
So, yes, just sprinkle them on top of the cake
and then decorate it with some chocolate lollipops
that I made in last week's video,
which will be linked in the cards here and down below,
as well as the chocolate lips that we made.
Then you wanna place the eight bit hearts
around the base of the cake, which I think
it just adds the perfect touch, and you are done.
So, I thank you guys so much for watching,
and hope that you like this video.
If you have requests for other Valentine's day recipes,
leave them in the comments down below,
because we still have two more slots to fill,
and, yeah, if there's anything that you wanna make
and you don't know how, let me know
and I can show you how to make it.
So, yeah, I love you guys so much.
And I will see you on Sunday for my weekly vlog,
I can't say that properly.
If you guys didn't know, I'm weekly vlogging now,
and every Sunday.
This week it was Tuesday, I'm so sorry.
But yes, usually every Sunday, the weekly vlog comes out
and you kinda see like the behind the scenes
and see what my dogs do, and everything like that.
So I would love to see you guys there, so yeah.
I hope you guys are having a wonderful week so far.
Bye. Ouch