This pretty Heart Shaped Cake features a homemade red velvet cake topped with a pink cream cheese frosting. It’s a delicious way to show your loved ones how much you care. No special pan required!

Easy Heart Cake Shaped Recipe

Special occasion cakes are so fun to make! You’ll be relieved to hear that no special pan is needed to make this beautiful heart shaped cake. My heart cake begins with a scratch made red velvet cake that’s topped with cream cheese frosting. Decorate it with heart shaped candies or festive sprinkles and chill it until serving. How to make a Heart Shaped Cake: (Scroll down for full printable recipe.)

Red Velvet Cake – Spritz a square 8×8 baking pan and an 8-inch round cake pan with baking spray or butter and flour.
Dry Ingredients – Use a whisk to sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
Wet Ingredients – In a separate bowl whisk together the buttermilk, vegetable oil, food coloring, vinegar, vanilla and eggs until fully combined.
Combine – Using an electric mixer on medium speed gradually add the wet ingredients to the sifted dry ingredients beating just until combined.
Transfer to Pans – Divide the cake batter evenly between the prepared pans.
Bake – Bake in a preheated 350°F per the recipe until the cake springs back when gently touched or a toothpick inserted into the center comes back clean.
Cool the Cake – Cool for 20 minutes in the pans then carefully remove from the pan to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Make the Cream Cheese Frosting – In a medium-size mixing bowl using an electric mixer on medium-high speed cream together the cream cheese, butter, vanilla and salt. Lower the speed of the mixer and gradually add the powdered sugar. Whip for 2 minutes or until smooth and creamy.
Assemble the Heart Shaped Cake – Once the cakes have cooled use a sharp knife to cut the round cake into two equal halves to create two half circles.
On a large platter or cake stand, place the square cake offset in the center with one corner pointing down.
Frost – Use a small amount of cream cheese frosting to attach the two halves to the top of the square cake to create the top rounds and the heart shape.
Frost the entire cake with a thin coat of cream cheese frosting to create a crumb coat.
Smooth the remaining frosting onto the cake and decorate as desired.

How to Make the BEST Heart Shaped Cake

Ingredients you’ll need to make a homemade Heart Shaped Cake: All purpose flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, salt, granulated sugar, buttermilk, vegetable oil, liquid red food coloring, white distilled vinegar, large eggs and vanilla extract.
Ingredients to make the Cream Cheese Frosting: Two blocks of plain cream cheese, salted butter, vanilla extract and powdered sugar.
Kitchen tools you’ll need: Stand mixer or hand mixer, measuring cups and spoons, large bowl, medium bowl, Square 8×8 inch pan, 8-inch round pan, silicone spatula, offset icing spatula, cake pedastal.
You can use a lighter neufchatel cheese in place of full fat cream cheese for the frosting. When doing so, you may need to add additional powdered sugar to stabilize the frosting.
You can have fun decorating the cake your way! If you’d like to pipe the frosting as seen in the images use a large Wilton 1M open star tip to pipe rosettes around the edge.
Have fun and use whatever color of holiday sprinkles or Valentine’s Day candies that suit your fancy to decorate the top.
I highly recommend using gel food colorings to tint frostings. Dip a toothpick into the gel then swirl through the frosting and whip. Repeat until you reach your desired color intensity.
Store this easy Heart Shaped Cake chilled in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
You can freeze this red velvet cake for up to 3 months.

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