Sweet heart's cake

 
                             SWEET HEART'S CAKE
 
 Recipe By     : DESSERT SHOW #DS3050
 Serving Size  : 0    Preparation Time :0:00
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   Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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                         Sweet heart cake:
    1 2/3  cups          vanilla buttercream frosting
                         Red food coloring
    1 1/3  cups          flaked coconut
    1      8 inch        cooled square cake
    1      8 inch        cooled round layer cake
    2      large         red gumdrops
    1      large         white gumdrop
                         Chewy fruit snack roll cut into strips for
                          bow
 
 Vanilla buttercream frosting: Beat 1 (16 ounces) package powdered sugar, 1/2
 cup butter, 3
 tablespoons milk, and 2 teaspoons vanilla with a mixer on low until well
 blended and smooth.
 Sweet heart cake: Tint buttercream frosting pink using red food coloring.
 Tint coconut pink using
 red food coloring. Leave square cake whole. Cut round cake in half. Using a
 small amount of
 frosting to hold pieces together, arrange cake on serving tray with one half
 round cake on one
 flat side of square cake, repeating process, at right angles of square cake
 thus making a heart.
 Frost cake over all with remaining frosting. Sprinkle with coconut. Flatten
 red and white
 gumdrops with rolling pin. Cut into 2-inch heart shapes with a small cookie
 cutter or knife.
 Decorate center of cake with heart cut-outs. Cut fruit snack roll, flattened
 out, into strips. Make a
 bow and place with hearts in center of cake.
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