{"id":12817,"date":"2013-02-14T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosemaryandthegoat.com\/?p=12817"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T22:46:23","slug":"be-my-valentine-pound-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosemaryandthegoat.com\/?p=12817","title":{"rendered":"Be My Valentine Pound Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

KISS ME, SWEET TALK, BE MINE, HUG ME, TRUE LOVE, SOUL MATE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

When you were a kid (unless you are my age maybe you didn’t do this) didn’t you just love Valentine’s Day. You got to make your special box to take to school so everyone could deposit a valentine card in it as you munched on treats during your Valentine party that your room moms tried to make so special. Not sure if they do parties these days. And I’m sure the kids would not be munching on cupcakes, candy, red punch etc. that we stuffed our cute little faces with; we’re still alive and it sure didn’t hurt us any.<\/p>\n

I remember how special my valentine box was one year. My sister and I covered our boxes with crepe paper and then our mother would take strips of crepe paper and sew gathering stitches. We would then draw the long strips up into ruffles that we would glue around the boxes. How pretty they turned out and we were always so excited to go to school the next day to see what everyone else’s looked like. I wonder if kids these days still make valentine boxes.<\/p>\n

All this Valentine talk got me to looking for something different to make for Valentine’s Day. I came across this idea at Very Culinary<\/a>. I loved the idea of putting the hearts in the middle of the pound cake but I did not want to use a box pound cake. Why pay for a mix when you can make it twice as good (at least) from scratch. If you are in a pinch for time look at her recipe and go by her directions. She used two boxes of Betty Crocker pound cake. Take a look at Seeknows.com <\/a>her recipe using pumpkin bread for the inside and pound cake on the outside. I listed her frosting at the bottom of the page which is the one I used except for browning the butter. It is a fluffyier looking frosting that the glaze from Very Culinary. I tinted mine pink for Valentine’s Day. I also did Very Culinary’s glaze on one of the cakes.<\/p>\n

I decided to use my nephew’s wife’s (Julie) recipe for her delicious pound cake. I knew I wanted two cakes so I made one recipe, dyed it pink (should have dyed darker) and put that one recipe into two bread pans. Then I made another recipe and left it white and that was what encased the pink hearts into the center of the loaf. So, if you want easy, buy 2 boxes cake mix, make one pink and one white then follow directions at Very Culinary’s site.<\/p>\n

Also, I have seen other sites where the person used a pumpkin for fall, clover leaf for st. pat’s and you could also just do a pretty flower cookie cutter for a flower center.<\/p>\n

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What I learned from doing this: FIRST, if you want a delicious pound cake, make this and bake in a bundt pan. Second, if you want to make a cute cake with cut-outs in the center, then buy 2 boxed pound cakes at under $2 each. I ended up making two of this poundcake recipe and was in the kitchen all afternoon into the night. Other things I would do next time — dye the center cut outs a darker color. I thought I had my pink dark but with the pink frosting they didn’t show up much. Also, I put too much batter in the bottom of the pan making the hearts too close to the top. I did the thinnest of layers of batter in the bottom but I guess that was too much. One of the sites showed just putting the cutouts on the bottom with no batter beneath it. I would also use a smaller cut-out so you have more of the white batter on the sides. My heart cutter came almost to the sides of the pan and I have big loaf pans.<\/p>\n

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Cut slices and then using cutter, cut out shapes.<\/p>\n

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Put a tiny bit of batter on bottom of pan (see note) or not then line up your cut-out shapes, fill in with the white batter around cut-outs.<\/p>\n

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Cover the heart cut-outs with white batter.<\/p>\n

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This is the frosting from sheknows.com<\/p>\n

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This frosting is from veryculinary.com<\/p>\n

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Looks like I put too put batter in the bottom. I actually barely spread the batter on bottom of pan, so be careful not to get too much because it makes the hearts push too high in loaf. I knew those cute little heart plates and Apilco espresso cups would come in handy some day.<\/p>\n

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