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Heart Cakes

A cake made from angel cake mixture, baked, cut into heart shapes, and iced pink.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Heart Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make and bake

  1. Prepare an angel cake mixture.

  2. Bake in a 1-inch deep pan.

Shape and finish

  1. Once cool, cut into heart shapes.

  2. Cover with pink icing.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Angel cake mixture
Forms the light, airy sponge that makes up the body of each heart.
Pink icing
Adds sweetness and a moist coating, plus the pink colour for the finished hearts.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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