Roses and Hearts...all in a cake!!

When it comes to valentines roses, red and hearts all spring to mind....so I put them all into a cake!

 First I made a red velvet cake in a 10 inch round tin. When it was fully baked I cut it in half and filled it with cream cheese icing. I doubled the icing mixture that I would usually make because you could never have too much!! I then covered the cake in a 'crumb layer' of icing and left in the fridge for about half an hour. I made the flowers on top using the exact same icing as I filled the inside with but used a small nozzle to create the 'rose effect'. The colour of the cream cheese icing by its nature is a little bland so I sprinkled it with little sugar hearts, and of course sieved some edible glitter over it! I made it for my housemate's birthday and she loved it but it also the perfect Valentine's cake or desert. This technique could also be used for other types of icing, basically anything that you could use when piping icing on cupcakes.

The technique itself is so simple. All you have to do is start with a little 'dollop' and then continue working in circles.