Hi guys welcome to my virgin kitchen its Becky here.
We are not at home again today its too loud theres loads of drilling bagging going on
uh instead we have come to my parents house to do this where its nice and quiet um yeah
and they are probably not going to know we have been here until they watch this.
So hi haha we are in your house haha.
Now today I am showing you how to make some amazing hidden heart cupcakes perfect for
valentines day.
Now if you want to give these cupcakes a go you will find the full method and list of
ingredients over on myvirginkitchen.com.
but the first thing we are going to do today is to make our red sponge for the hidden hearts
inside the cupcakes.
So grab yourself a mixing bowl and you are going to beat together the butter and sugar
until its really nice and fluffy and pale in colour.
Next crack in your eggs one at a time and give it a good mix together until its all
combine.
Then you are going to gently fold in the flour and then you want to add in your red food
colouring.
So you can add in as much or as little as you like here, depending on what colour you
want your hearts.
If you want them bright red or if you want them a pinkie kind of light red colour that�s
absolutely fine its up to you.
Give it a good mix together until its well combine and then you are just going to pour
this batter into a greased and lined 8 inch Victoria sandwich tin.
You are then going to bake this in the oven for about 15 minutes and when its done dont
worry if you get it out and it looks a bit under cooked because this sponge is going
to get cooked again in the cupcake cases.
Transfer this sponge to a wire rack to cool down completely and then you are going to
put it on to a flat surface so like a chopping board and find a heart shaped couple couple
cutter.
We found a like a small heart shaped couple haha is that for valentines day yeah thats
a valentines day pun right there.
Grab yourself a small heart shaped cutter we had one yeah we found one in our draw we
had loads.
And then you are just going to um push it into the red sponge work your way around the
edge try and get as much sponge usage as you can um yeah and gently pull out the heart
shape and set them to one side.
I then made a vanilla cake batter I did this exactly the same way as I did the red cake
batter but obviously didnt add any red food colouring but I did add some baking powder
some vanilla essence and also a drop of milk as my mixture felt quite stiff.
Then you are going to grab yourself a muffin tin line it with some muffin cases and spoon
a small amount of your vanilla cake batter into the bottom of each cupcake case.
You are then going to gently push in your heart shaped cakes into the batter.
Now dont let it the bottom of the cake cases you just want it to gently sit into the batter.
Now at this point Barry and I did get a bit worried we looked at the heart shaped sponges
and we realised that they were a little bit too big.
Our heart was too big it was just too big but if you seen us on the vlog or on snap
chat youll know that we carried on we just kept going.
We then poured in our vanilla cake batter so that it was surrounding the heart just
so that it came up level with the heart in the cake case.
Your then going to bake these in the oven for 20 minutes and when they came out of the
oven they looked humongous they were huge we were like we have to stop.
Yeah we stopped and at this point we thought this isnt going to work we need to stop right
there but Barry came to the rescue.
He said lets just cut it in half so we cut one cake in half and as if my magic there
was a perfect heart shape inside the cupcake.
We were amazed werent we yeah we managed to bodge it and pull it off we were really surprised
so we thought no we will carry on we will cover the tops with icing and everything will
be alright.
So that is what we did while our cupcakes were cooling down we made our buttercream.
In a bowl I beat together some room temperature butter until it was nice and pale in colour
and then gradually added in a few spoonfuls of icing sugar at a time and then gave it
a good mix together until we got the right consistency and all the icing sugar was used
up.
We then added a fefw drops of food colouring we decided to go for pink a nice pale pink
just a few drops and gave it a mix together.
We transferred this into a piping bag and added a generous amount of piped icing on
top and finished with handful if sprinkles.
And I have to say they looked amazing we were a bit worried we got the cake all decorated
looking nice and we went to cut it in half and we thought which half what happens if
we cut it the wrong way the hearts not going to be the right way.
But luckily we were so lucky we just gussed it and yeah we got the heart the right way
and they looked amazing.
So remember if you need some valentines day inspiration theres loads of recipes over on
myvirginkitchen.com and I�m also writing a blog post at the moment all to do with valentines
day so that should be up soon and if you do give these a go please send us your pictures
we would love to see how they turned out and follow us on all social media and ill see
you again next time bye.