Love is Love…is LOVE! Decorate any of your favorite cakes with this skill that is simple to master.

DIRECTIONS

Have prepared a fully frosted layered cake of at least 5-6 inches tall.

Prepare 6 small bowls for making “gel” colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple), by mixing 1 ¼ tsp of each color powder with ¼ tsp of water. Stir with a small spoon or brush until all the color is dissolved. For purple, mix 2 tsp of pink color and 2 tsp of blue color (If using packets, each packet is 2.5g - 1 ½ tsp).

Stir in a ½ pint of white vanilla frosting and allow color to develop for 10 minutes. Mix and add more color for a deeper saturation of color.

Prepare 3 baking trays with parchment paper.

Fit 6 pastry bags with a coupler tip and use a #32 piping tip.

Pipe many small 1 inch hearts left half then right half in each color. A 5-inch cakes needs at least 13 hearts for each color.

Freeze trays of hearts until frosting is fully firmed.

Starting from the bottom of the cake, pipe a small dollop of frosting to where the heart will be placed. Starting with purple, gently press a heart upon the cake. Alternate the following hearts upside down then rightside up.

Change colors with each row completed, beginning with purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red.

-Heather Wong - Pastry Chef, Flouring LA

Inspired by Qookie The Cakery

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