How To Make A Red Velvet HUMAN HEART out of CAKE _ Yolanda Gampp _ How To Cake It
**The Art of Heart-Cutting: A Valentine's Day Cake Tutorial**
This week, we're celebrating one of the most unlikely days of the year - Singles Awareness Day! But don't worry, we won't leave you feeling heartbroken. Our talented baker has created a stunning cake that showcases the complexities and intricacies of the human heart.
**The Heart-Shaped Masterpiece**
To begin, our artist started by shaping the extra pink fleshy fondant into the right atrium and right ventricle. They carefully crafted each section to ensure they were as realistic as possible. "It's all about the details," they explained. "I wanted the right atrium to be really Atrium-like and the right ventricle to be just as Oracle." The artist then moved on to form the left atrium and ventricle, which, surprisingly, proved to be not symmetrical. "I didn't even notice at first," they chuckled. "But now I know my heart isn't as neat inside as I thought it was."
**Adding Ligaments and Valves**
Next, our baker added the ligamentum arteriosum, a structure that connects the two main arteries in the heart. They achieved this by using their finger to create small indentations on the fondant. "It's all about creating depth and dimension," they explained. The artist then painted in the major blood vessels, including the aortic arch, pulmonary artery, and superior vena cava. To add some extra realism, they used a wet paintbrush to smooth out the seams between the different sections of the heart.
**Blood-Red Details**
But what would a heart-shaped cake be without some good old-fashioned blood? Our baker mixed together equal parts red food coloring and seedless raspberry jam with a bit of water to create a goopy, yet beautiful, effect. They carefully painted this "blood" all over the heart, making sure to get into every nook and cranny. To add an extra touch, they melted some burgundy ganache and drizzled it onto the valves.
**A Message for Broken Hearts**
As we celebrate Singles Awareness Day, our baker wanted to send a message to those who have had their hearts broken. "Forget Valentine's Day," she declared. "I'm declaring today February 2nd as Singles Day!" With that, she took an extra bite of cake for anyone out there feeling heartbroken. "Shame on you," she joked. "You can't break someone's heart and then expect them to feel sorry for you."
**The Finished Product**
In the end, our baker's masterpiece was complete - a stunning, heart-shaped cake that showcased her incredible skill and attention to detail. But as we look closer, we see more than just a beautifully crafted dessert. We see a reflection of ourselves, with all our complexities and imperfections on display. And for that, we're grateful.
**The Baker's Bio**
Our talented baker has been nominated for a Shorty Award in the food category this year! If you want to show your support, click the link in the description below and vote for her every day until February 8th. And if you're single and feeling lonely on this Singles Awareness Day, don't worry - our baker is here for you. She'll be sharing more baking adventures with us next week, so stay tuned!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm Yolanda this is how to cake it and I know this is a baking caking channel so I should be making like a Fila Valentine's Day cake but I'm doing it my way what if somebody broke your heart before Valentine's Day you have to see all those cards and all those chocolates and everything is in the shape of a heart as if we really didn't get it you guys want me to make a heart cake you got it be careful what you wish tour to make this Valentine's Day heart cake I'm making my deep red velvet cake which is the same recipe I used for my brain cake the recipe makes 4 and2 lbs of batter which I split into two 8 in round bowls filling them with 2 and 1/4 lbs of batter each I level them by turning them flat side down and just cutting off sort of the top crust it's time to start carving a human heart you're probably wondering how you carve a human heart out of cake and I'm wondering the same thing I first start to cut out the main shape of the heart which is actually a lot like a heart and then I started to carve some of the indents and curves I just kept looking back at the model and looking back at my cake good thing I have a model and it's not a real human heart that would be awkward that would be gross never mind awkward now that I'm happy with the shape of my heart I'm going to open it up yeah yeah I'm going to open it up and fill it I shower my cakes with simple syrup on both sides of course using sir squeez aot he's one of the only men that's been really consistent in my life so I think you should try him out you can get one at Hatake it.com he's lovely he doesn't wrap but he's good for the filling I have made a chocolate G as but I added some burgundy food coloring to make it a really dark kind of brown brown red kind of like old blood M I love old blood in my heart cake oh God so good M then I crumb coated it with Italian mering buttercream and chilled it for 20 minutes Crum coat and chill I know that Valentine's Day is getting all the shine this month but for me next week is my one year anniversary of how to cake it I'm trying to reach a million subscribers by that date guys we recorded this video before we hit a million we had no idea we would hit it so fast what oh in Translation how cool is that hot from the oven I want to be the girl like in the in the boxing ring A Millie thank you so much the next step is to ice the cake once more the great thing about a heart is it isn't actually really smooth so you could just give it a really light icing put it back in the fridge to chill again for 20 minutes y what's the worst Valentine's Day gift you've ever gotten oh Jocelyn the worst Valentine's Day gift I've ever gotten is not getting a gift for 9 years because Yolanda was single a there's no yay I'm single this is amazing I'm going to move on to making the veins for this heart cake I'm using red and blue fondant because I want to be precise and what I'm going to do is send that fondant through a clay extruder when you push fondant through a clay extruder it's great if it can be softer than it usually is so I just knad in a bit of shortening to really soften the fondant put it into the tunnel of the clay extruder and push it out I bring out my heart cake and I start to place my red veins on top of the heart looking at my model the whole time and a few internet pictures like brain Googling human heart is fun now I'm going to repeat this process and make blue veins just make sure to press your veins down onto the cake so they stay in place you don't want your veins moving around in your heart things I thought I'd never say time to cover the entire cake with a pink fleshy fondant I rolled my fondant as thin as I possibly could I really want those veins to show up underneath and then I drape the whole sheet of fondant over the heart rub your fondant onto the top of your cake with your fingertips especially between the veins make sure there's no air pockets you really want to see the veins stick out on top of the heart it doesn't have to be perfect don't stress Don't worry if there are a few gathers left Hearts aren't perfect in fact Valentine's Day is not perfect it excludes a lot of people it's time to announce this week's a year and Cake winner and the winner is do we have a drum roll there's a drum roll hello if this doesn't say Valentine's Day I don't know what does the next thing I need to do is make all of these good parts of the heart here so I take some of my extra pink fleshy fondant and make the um the um right atrium and right Oracle you want the atrium to be really Atrium and the Oracle to be really Oracle that's important then I formed this important part of the heart which is called the left Oracle and the left Atri like I couldn't have guessed that but they're not the same shape how do you feel knowing your heart is not symmetrical I don't know I don't know how to fix that feel like I'm not as neat inside as I thought I was and now now it's time to make all this goodness up here which is ligamentum arteriosum that's easy to say and I made the openings just with my finger aortic Arc the super vava theu this I made so much stuff and I didn't even know what it was I just called them the the big tube the bigger tube and the double tube to really make it appear like all of these tubes I've just added are stemming from the heart dip a paintbrush in water and really just brush the ends of the tubes into the heart or wherever it's meeting another piece of fondant this just dissolves the fondant a little and helps you to just work out that seam maybe how to cake it will be like the cause of a love connection my editor orhan is single I can put a picture of him on my Instagram Chad is also single as far as I know he hasn't been with us for like a month he's working on a movie right now it's like big time you know you let the boy in front of the camera one time to share an Octoberfest hot dog with you and he's like I'm out that's what men do this heart needs a few more veins on top I'm going to use my flesh colored fondant and smooth them out once again with a wet paintbrush there's no single ladies on how to cake it are there not anymore right J JN has a man J Jin likes Valentine's Day this year to make my blood I mixed one and a half containers of red no taste food coloring with a/4 of a cup of seedless raspberry gam and then I actually added some water cuz I felt like it was a bit thick and I just stirred that all up till it was nice and goopy we're going to paint this blood all over our heart cake make sure to get in between the veins in the crevices in the top of the valve eles everywhere that doesn't say Valentine's Day blood everywhere I'm going to move this bloody heart cake to a pretty baby pink cake stand cuz I'm not totally heartless it's Valentine's Day after all I made so many gross faces while making this cake so many I'm going to spoon on my extra blood around the base of the cake and then I did have a bit of extra burgundy ganache so I melted it down and I added it to the opening of the really big valves on the heart because I figure if your heart's been ripped out there could be some like dried goopy blood left so I added that to the heart M more chocolate this one's for all the ladies out there and the gentlemen too who have had their hearts broken who are sad this coming Valentine's Day time to tell whoever broke your heart to eat their heart out I'm going to take an extra bite for anyone out there who's thinking of breaking somebody's heart shame on you so forget Valentine's Day I am declaring today February 2nd singles day single I'm happy anyway and I don't need you day and it's a great day and I am going to boycott Valentine's Day in your honor I'm with you I'm feeling this with you I'm here for you Valentine's Day is dead to me what's Valentine's Day um yo yeah Mr cake just delivered this for you you think you can just get me like a box of heart-shaped chocolates and a ridiculously cute pink monkey I'm still with you guys I will not be sued I don't like milk chocolate and caramel I would never waste food so I'll see you guys here next week I'm just going to go throw these out just after this one come On Monkey want some chocolate monkey I've been nominated for a shorty award in the food category this year so help me out by clicking the link in the description below and voting for me every day until February 8 18 please it would mean so much to me we could do thisI'm Yolanda this is how to cake it and I know this is a baking caking channel so I should be making like a Fila Valentine's Day cake but I'm doing it my way what if somebody broke your heart before Valentine's Day you have to see all those cards and all those chocolates and everything is in the shape of a heart as if we really didn't get it you guys want me to make a heart cake you got it be careful what you wish tour to make this Valentine's Day heart cake I'm making my deep red velvet cake which is the same recipe I used for my brain cake the recipe makes 4 and2 lbs of batter which I split into two 8 in round bowls filling them with 2 and 1/4 lbs of batter each I level them by turning them flat side down and just cutting off sort of the top crust it's time to start carving a human heart you're probably wondering how you carve a human heart out of cake and I'm wondering the same thing I first start to cut out the main shape of the heart which is actually a lot like a heart and then I started to carve some of the indents and curves I just kept looking back at the model and looking back at my cake good thing I have a model and it's not a real human heart that would be awkward that would be gross never mind awkward now that I'm happy with the shape of my heart I'm going to open it up yeah yeah I'm going to open it up and fill it I shower my cakes with simple syrup on both sides of course using sir squeez aot he's one of the only men that's been really consistent in my life so I think you should try him out you can get one at Hatake it.com he's lovely he doesn't wrap but he's good for the filling I have made a chocolate G as but I added some burgundy food coloring to make it a really dark kind of brown brown red kind of like old blood M I love old blood in my heart cake oh God so good M then I crumb coated it with Italian mering buttercream and chilled it for 20 minutes Crum coat and chill I know that Valentine's Day is getting all the shine this month but for me next week is my one year anniversary of how to cake it I'm trying to reach a million subscribers by that date guys we recorded this video before we hit a million we had no idea we would hit it so fast what oh in Translation how cool is that hot from the oven I want to be the girl like in the in the boxing ring A Millie thank you so much the next step is to ice the cake once more the great thing about a heart is it isn't actually really smooth so you could just give it a really light icing put it back in the fridge to chill again for 20 minutes y what's the worst Valentine's Day gift you've ever gotten oh Jocelyn the worst Valentine's Day gift I've ever gotten is not getting a gift for 9 years because Yolanda was single a there's no yay I'm single this is amazing I'm going to move on to making the veins for this heart cake I'm using red and blue fondant because I want to be precise and what I'm going to do is send that fondant through a clay extruder when you push fondant through a clay extruder it's great if it can be softer than it usually is so I just knad in a bit of shortening to really soften the fondant put it into the tunnel of the clay extruder and push it out I bring out my heart cake and I start to place my red veins on top of the heart looking at my model the whole time and a few internet pictures like brain Googling human heart is fun now I'm going to repeat this process and make blue veins just make sure to press your veins down onto the cake so they stay in place you don't want your veins moving around in your heart things I thought I'd never say time to cover the entire cake with a pink fleshy fondant I rolled my fondant as thin as I possibly could I really want those veins to show up underneath and then I drape the whole sheet of fondant over the heart rub your fondant onto the top of your cake with your fingertips especially between the veins make sure there's no air pockets you really want to see the veins stick out on top of the heart it doesn't have to be perfect don't stress Don't worry if there are a few gathers left Hearts aren't perfect in fact Valentine's Day is not perfect it excludes a lot of people it's time to announce this week's a year and Cake winner and the winner is do we have a drum roll there's a drum roll hello if this doesn't say Valentine's Day I don't know what does the next thing I need to do is make all of these good parts of the heart here so I take some of my extra pink fleshy fondant and make the um the um right atrium and right Oracle you want the atrium to be really Atrium and the Oracle to be really Oracle that's important then I formed this important part of the heart which is called the left Oracle and the left Atri like I couldn't have guessed that but they're not the same shape how do you feel knowing your heart is not symmetrical I don't know I don't know how to fix that feel like I'm not as neat inside as I thought I was and now now it's time to make all this goodness up here which is ligamentum arteriosum that's easy to say and I made the openings just with my finger aortic Arc the super vava theu this I made so much stuff and I didn't even know what it was I just called them the the big tube the bigger tube and the double tube to really make it appear like all of these tubes I've just added are stemming from the heart dip a paintbrush in water and really just brush the ends of the tubes into the heart or wherever it's meeting another piece of fondant this just dissolves the fondant a little and helps you to just work out that seam maybe how to cake it will be like the cause of a love connection my editor orhan is single I can put a picture of him on my Instagram Chad is also single as far as I know he hasn't been with us for like a month he's working on a movie right now it's like big time you know you let the boy in front of the camera one time to share an Octoberfest hot dog with you and he's like I'm out that's what men do this heart needs a few more veins on top I'm going to use my flesh colored fondant and smooth them out once again with a wet paintbrush there's no single ladies on how to cake it are there not anymore right J JN has a man J Jin likes Valentine's Day this year to make my blood I mixed one and a half containers of red no taste food coloring with a/4 of a cup of seedless raspberry gam and then I actually added some water cuz I felt like it was a bit thick and I just stirred that all up till it was nice and goopy we're going to paint this blood all over our heart cake make sure to get in between the veins in the crevices in the top of the valve eles everywhere that doesn't say Valentine's Day blood everywhere I'm going to move this bloody heart cake to a pretty baby pink cake stand cuz I'm not totally heartless it's Valentine's Day after all I made so many gross faces while making this cake so many I'm going to spoon on my extra blood around the base of the cake and then I did have a bit of extra burgundy ganache so I melted it down and I added it to the opening of the really big valves on the heart because I figure if your heart's been ripped out there could be some like dried goopy blood left so I added that to the heart M more chocolate this one's for all the ladies out there and the gentlemen too who have had their hearts broken who are sad this coming Valentine's Day time to tell whoever broke your heart to eat their heart out I'm going to take an extra bite for anyone out there who's thinking of breaking somebody's heart shame on you so forget Valentine's Day I am declaring today February 2nd singles day single I'm happy anyway and I don't need you day and it's a great day and I am going to boycott Valentine's Day in your honor I'm with you I'm feeling this with you I'm here for you Valentine's Day is dead to me what's Valentine's Day um yo yeah Mr cake just delivered this for you you think you can just get me like a box of heart-shaped chocolates and a ridiculously cute pink monkey I'm still with you guys I will not be sued I don't like milk chocolate and caramel I would never waste food so I'll see you guys here next week I'm just going to go throw these out just after this one come On Monkey want some chocolate monkey I've been nominated for a shorty award in the food category this year so help me out by clicking the link in the description below and voting for me every day until February 8 18 please it would mean so much to me we could do this\n"