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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