Valentines special Love pastry l Strawberry Cake Pastry Recipe | Valentines special cake pastry

Prep time 10 min	Cooking time 45 min
Cousine / Course Sweet	Servings 6

Ingredients – Cake

Making Cake

Preparing Cake batter

Sieve flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder together and mix well, keep aside
In another bowl take soft butter whisk butter for a minute, add sugar little at time whisk both together for 1-2 min, add curd whisk then add oil and whisk again until all ingredient incorporate together
Now add flour in 3-4 batches, use fold and mix method to incorporate dry and wet ingredients together
Add milk to mixture little at time and whisk so that all ingredient mix properly
Cake batter is ready
Take 8 inch square metal cake tin, grease with butter and place parchment paper at the bottom to avoid sticking the cake at bottom
Pour batter to cake tin, spread evenly, tap cake tin to remove air bubbles
Preheat oven on 340 degree Fahrenheit/ 180 degree celsius
Bake cake for 40-45 min
Check cake by inserting toothpick in cake, remove cake tin, let it cool for 5 min
Demold cake, remove parchment pepper and let it cool completely on wire rack
Once cool down cut dried side(edges) of cake

Ingredients – Strawberry milk

Instruction – Strawberry milk

Ingredient – Pink Chocolate Flakes

Pink Chocolate Flakes

Take mixing bowl add chocolate, microwave for 30 sec mix well
Now add 2-3 drops of red food color, mix well and pour pink chocolate mix in any silicon mold keep in refrigerate for 15-20 min
Remove solid pink chocolate block from mold
Now scrape chocolate by using grater or scraper and collect all pink flakes on plate and refrigarate

Ingredients – Pink fresh cream icing

Pink fresh cream icing

In bowl add white chocolate chips and 1/4 cup hot heavy cream mix well, until chocolate chips melts
Now add 2-3 drops of red food color(good quality food color), mix well
Now add 1/2 cup of cold heavy cream/ fresh cream mix well and refrigerate for 1 hour before using
After 1-2 hours whip mix using electric whisker, start with low speed once its thicken increase speed add sugar little at time in between till it becomes light and hard peak forms
Pink fresh icing is ready

Ingredients – White Chocolate heart

White chocolate heart

In mixing bowl add white chocolate microwave them for 30 sec, mix well to dissolve chocolate completely, repeat microwave for 30 sec if needed
Now make small cone out of parchment paper add melted white chocolate, place parchment paper on plate or tray and make hearts
Refrigerate white chocolate heart for 10-15 min
Chocolate hearts are ready

Cake Pastry Assembly

Keep cake board or plate on surface, apply some ganache on middle
Slice cake in two section, keep upper slice a side
Place lower slice of cake on board, pour some strawberry milk with spoon/brush on all over first cake layer
Spread some strawberry jam all over cake layer
Fill piping bag with fresh pink icing, Apply icing on cake by using piping bag, spread evenly
Place second layer of cake on top of that and repeat all steps
Pour some strawberry milk, and apply a layer of strawberry jam
Apply pink icing on top of cake, make sides and top smooth by using cake spatula
refrigerate cake for 30 min, now cut cake in pastry pieces 2 by 3 or 3 by 3
Sprinkle pink chocolate flakes on top of all slices
Decorate with white chocolate hearts

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