Introduction: Surprise Heart Chocolate Cup Cake

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Surprise heart in a cake! Perfect romantic dinner. Surprise your loved once with your culinary skills. Hope you like this recipe. It is quite simple to make.

I always wanted to try this surprise heart and it was a surprise at the simplicity of the whole process of getting a surprise heart.

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Step 1: Ingredients

Preparation Time - 30 minutes

Cooking Time - 45 minutes


All Purpose Flour – ½ Cup

Sugar – 1/3 Cup

Cocoa Powder – 1 Tbsp

Baking Soda – 1/ 3 Tsp

Pinch of salt

Milk – 1/3 Cup

Oil/ Melted Butter – 1 Tsp

Vinegar – 1/3 Tbsp

Vanilla Essence – 1/3 Tsp

Edible Food Color – Pinch (Red)

Whipping Cream - 1/2 Cup

Step 2: Dry Ingredient

Add all purpose flour and sugar.
Mix well.

Step 3: Wet Ingredient

In a bowl add milk, vinegar, oil and vanilla essence. Add Baking soda.

The mixture will froth little.

Step 4: Batter

Add the wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Bring them together.

Step 5: Heart Batter

Take half of the batter and add red food color and 1 Tsp of all purpose flour.

Mix well.

Step 6: Bake

Bake for 10 minutes at 180 degree Celsius. Let it cool. Place it fridge for 15 minutes.

Step 7: Carve Heart

Carve a heart out of the Cupcake with a knife.

Step 8: Chocolate Cake

Prepare the chocolate batter. To the rest of the batter add cocoa powder. Mix well.

Step 9: Place the Heart

Place the heart in the middle of the Cupcake mold. Note the position so that when you slice it the heart will be visible.

Step 10: Bake

Bake for 15 minutes at 180 degree Celsius.

Add whipping cream on top. Sprinkle cocoa powder.

When you slice into half you will see the heart inside.

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