Last Updated on December 6, 2017
If you want to make anything special for this valentine then this is the answer. This is a special cake which has a hidden heart inside it, it may seem complicated to look at, but actually it is super easy to make... I am sure your valentine will be very excited if you serve this for desert..
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I made a rainbow heart because i love anything rainbow or colourful. But you can add just red colour and place the heart inside.
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Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..
Baking Time : 1 hour and 30 mins
Serves: 6 to 8
For Rainbow Cake:
All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1.5 cup / 180 grams
Sugar - 1 cup / 200 grams
Vanilla Essence - 1 tblspn
Eggs - 3
Baking Powder-2 tsp
Salt - ½ tsp
Unsalted Butter - 175 grams
Milk - ¼ cup / 60 ml
Food Colours as needed (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink)
For Vanilla Cake:
All Purpose Flour / Maida - 1.5 cup / 180 grams
Sugar - ¾ cup / 150 grams
Unsalted Butter - 180 grams
Vanilla Essence - 2 tsp
Baking Powder - 1.5 tsp
Eggs - 3
(My 1 cup measures 240 ml)
Method:
First lets make the rainbow heart cake:
Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan with oil and dust it with flour. Coat on all sides and set aside.
Now take butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and whisk well. Now add in eggs one at a time and whip till creamy.
Now add in flour, baking powder and salt and fold gently. Add in milk and fold gently.
Divide the batter between 6 bowls and add one food colouring in each one and mix well. Now spoon this into the loaf pan and use a skewer to make swirls on it.
Now bake this in oven for 45 mins to 1 hour till the cake is done. Remove it and cool down completely. Now slice this into pieces and cut out heart shape using this. Put this in fridge for 30 mins to 1 hour or so.
Now lets make the vanilla cake:
Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan with oil and dust it with flour. Coat on all sides and set aside.
Now take butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and whisk well. Now add in eggs one at a time and whip till creamy.
Now add in flour, baking powder and salt and fold gently.
Now take the loaf pan, spoon ¼ of the cake batter, spread evenly, now arrange the hearts on it and spoon the remaining batter in and bake for 35 mins to 45 mins.
Now let the cake cool down, slice and serve.
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| First lets make the rainbow heart cake |
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| take butter in a bowl |
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| add in sugar |
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| add in vanilla |
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| mix till creamy |
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| add one egg at a time and whip again till mixed |
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| i added remaining two eggs as well |
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| mix well |
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| add in flour |
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| baking powder |
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| add in salt |
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| add milk |
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| fold gently |
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| divide the batter between 6 bowls |
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| add one colour in each |
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| mix well |
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| grease a loaf pan and dust with flour |
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| spoon one batter in |
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| now other and repeat with all the batter |
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| now take a skewer and make swirls |
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| like this |
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| now bake this |
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| now it is done |
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| slice it into slices |
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| use a hear shape cutter to cut out shapes |
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| put this in a plate |
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| chill this for 30 mins or so |
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| now lets make vanilla cake |
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| take butter in a bowl |
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| add in sugar |
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| now add in vanilla |
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| mix well |
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| add in eggs |
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| mix again |
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| add in flour |
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| add in baking powder |
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| mix well |
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| fold gently |
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| i prepared pan by greasing it and dusting it with flour |
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| spoon little batter |
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| spread evenly |
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| arrange the hearts |
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| like this |
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| spoon remaining batter |
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| spread evenly |
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| bake till done |
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| slice and admire.. |
Anonymous
Hey u posted the recipe as told.... Just now searched and took recipe to do tomo.. Thought to search in ur blog whether u posted or not... Nice dear... I will mail u how mine came out ... Planned for cupcake with hidden heart and hidden message cake in loaf pan... Thanks for posting the recipe
Anonymous
Nice..thanks aarti
Anonymous
Dear Aarthi,
I have a question on a recipe but not related to the cake recipe above. When we make rice flour at home after grinding, it will be slightly wet. This you can roast lightly if you want to keep it for several weeks. My question is can we use this lightly roasted rice flour to make dosas or should it always be freshly milled rice flour. Will it affect the end result of the dosa? I really want to try your dosa recipes but I don't always have time to keep making fresh rice flour (and I can't buy it in the shops here either).
Thank you for your answer!! (Btw I love all your recipes- first thing I do in the morning is check your blog!!!)
Eleonora Gambon
Beautiful!
Aarthi
@Anonymousu can roast it lightly and use
Arati Rahalkar
I tried the rainbow cake today and it turned out just fine. However, I did not go ahead and bake the second cake. I am doubtful how the inside rainbow cake that is done / baked already would turn out to be if it is baked one more time alongwith the outside cake... Won't it turn hard?
Aarthi
@Arati Rahalkarno it wont get hard
Anonymous
Hi, wanted to know if the rainbow hearts have to be kept in the freezer section of the refrigerator or the other part.
Anonymous
Hey Aarthi..Wonderful cake..want to make this for my Husband. I make cakes in Microwave and they are done in 7-10min. Same can i use with these cakes??
Aarthi
this cake has to be done in microwave convection mode.