Peek-a-Boo Heart Pound Cake!
- Servings
- 4
Ingredients
- 2 box pound cake mix calls for eggs, milk, and butter
- Pink food coloring
- 2 oz cream cheese softened
- Double heart cookie cutter
Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tsp milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 cup Wilton micro heart sprinkles
Method
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Prepare your pound cake as directed on box, add cream cheese.
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Add in a few drops of pink food coloring, more if you want a deeper color, and mix
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Grease a loaf pan with butter then lightly flour it
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Pour your pink pound cake batter into your loaf pan
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Bake as directed on box (usually around 50 minutes)
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Let cool completely for a couple hours or an hour in the fridge
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Slice your cake into 1 1/2 inch slices like you would a loaf of bread
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Lay your cake slices flat and then use your double heart cookie cutter to cut out your heart shapes
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Now mix up another box of pound cake and pour a small amount in the bottom of another loaf pan
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Start placing your double hearts onto your batter in the bottom of your pan standing upright (make sure they are close together)
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Now pour your remaining batter on top of your hearts
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Bake for another 50 minutes
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Once your cake is finished baking, let cool completely for a couple hours or an hour in the fridge
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Mix together your powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla until you have a creamy icing texture
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Remove your cake from your pan and pour your icing onto your cake, letting it drip down the sides
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Top off with a handful of micro heart sprinkles
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Slice and enjoy!
Nutrition per serving
Counted from 0 of the 1 ingredients; the rest have no figures recorded, so this is not a complete total.