...a Vegan Heart Cake...

...I meant to show y'all how we made the little two layer vegan heart cake for Valentine's Day...

...but then I sorta forgot about it...and it languished in my 'drafts' for a couple of weeks...

...sorry about that...

...but since today is Leap Day...also known as Bachelor's Day...it's a heart day of another sort...a heart cake post will not be too out of place...

...it's just a Duncan Hines red velvet cake mix...with my favorite vegan egg replacer (flax seed goo)...I have my great aunt's wonderful Red Velvet cake recipe...and I have made a vegan version of it...but this one was just a mix...I'm sorry to say...

...now...this is what I intended to do...and I still think it would be a good idea if I were going to take the cake to some function or other...but I wanted the cake to fit under my cover...and although I baked the cake for the method above...I realized that it would be rather large...ahem...

...so I just made a paper heart shaped template...

...and cut that shape out of both cakes...

...and did a crumb coat...on the first layer...

...and added the second layer....

...and did a crumb coat on that layer as well...it's really important for a 'cut-out' cake like this one to do a crumb coat...as the cut edges have a LOT of crumbs...

...then I put the second layer of vegan cream cheese frosting on the entire cake...and in the end...it turned out perfectly...I wish I had another one for today's lover's day...

...that reminds me of Sadie Hawkins Day too...when I was in school we used to have a Sadie Hawkins Day dance on February 29th...and girls were supposed to ask boys to dance...it's funny that the real day is in November...maybe they were just combining it with the Bachelor's Day tradition...funny...

...do they still do that?...I wonder...

~Have a lovely Leap Day!