Valentines Cake Lollies Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease an 8x8-inch square pan and an 8-inch round pan.
• Beat white sugar and 1 cup butter together in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy and smooth. Mix eggs, 1 tablespoon vanilla extract, and almond extract into creamed butter mixture. Stir baking powder and baking soda into butter mixture until just combined.
• Stir 1 cup flour into butter mixture until just combined. Add 2/3 cup milk into butter-flour mixture; mix well. Continue adding 1 cup flour and 2/3 cup milk, alternating until all the flour and milk are used and batter is smooth. Pour batter into the 2 prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of each cake comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes. Cool cakes completely before removing from pans, at least 2 hours.
• Beat confectioners' sugar, 1 cup butter, and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract together in a bowl with an electric mixer until icing is fluffy and smooth.
• Remove cakes from pans and slice round cake in half. Lay the square cake on a work surface so it resembles a diamond-shape. Lay 1 round cake half on the top left side of the 'diamond' cake. Lay the second round cake half on the top right side of the 'diamond' cake, creating a 'heart-shaped' cake on top. Spread icing over the assembled cake.

Steps:

• Ask an adult to trim 14 wooden skewers to 10cm.
• Break 40g of chocolate into squares. Microwave in a bowl on full power for 20-30 seconds, or until just melted.
• In another bowl, mix the butter, icing sugar, and vanilla extract. Add the Madeira cake and melted chocolate, and stir to mix.
• Press the mixture into heart shaped ice cube moulds, then put in the freezer for 10 minutes.
• Carefully turn the hearts out. Break the rest of the chocolate into squares and put in a bowl. Melt in the microwave for 45 seconds, stir, then heat in 10-second blasts, stirring, until melted.
• Dip the pointed end of the skewers into the chocolate, and then push them into the hearts. Coat them in the melted chocolate.
• Finally, decorate with the pearls and glimmer and then stick the skewers into the potatoes and leave to set in the fridge.