Introduction: Half-heart-shaped Cake Made From a Round Cake

How to make a heart-shaped cake if you only have a baking tin for a round one (with hole in the centre)?

Supplies

You need:

  1. 1 round cake with outer diameter 240 mm and inner diameter 85 mm
  2. 1 knife
  3. the cutting sheet
  4. 1 mirror

Step 1: Make a Half Heart

Cut the round cake into pieces and arrange them to a half heart as shown in the video or follow the steps below.

Step 2: Cuts 1 and 2

Cut 1 and cut 2

Step 3: Cut 3

Cut 3

Step 4: Cut 4

Cut 4

Step 5: Cut 5

Cut 5

Step 6: Arrange Half Heart

Arrange pieces to half heart

Step 7: Full Heart

Place mirror next to the cake for a full heart

or

proceed similarly with a second cake for a mirror-image half heart by

  1. either using the cutting lines seen from the rear side of the cutting sheet (place the cutting sheet to a window and trace the cutting lines to the rear of the sheet),
  2. or turning the cake upside down for cutting.