HEART CAKE TAYLOR SWIFT How To Cook That Ann Reardon BLANK SPACE OFFICIAL

Welcome to How To Cook That: Creating a Taylor Swift-Inspired Blank Space Cake

Today, we're going to make a Broken Heart Cake inspired by the iconic song from Taylor Swift's 2014 album "1989". This cake is a great example of how you can create a beautiful and unique dessert using simple ingredients and techniques. To get started, you'll need a double quantity of vanilla buttercream and recipe videos for making sponge cakes and white chocolate melts.

First things first, let's level the top of our cakes so they're completely flat. Use the back of your knife to press gently in the middle of the cake to make an indent. Then, turn your knife 90 degrees and make another indent across so you've marked the cake into quarters. Next, carefully cut out one of the quarters and then on the opposite side of the cake, cut straight across where those two indents come to the edge. Do the same thing on that quarter piece that we cut out before, making it into a triangle.

Now, add that triangle to the other side of the cake. Trim the corners off the top and use your knife to round it out so that you've got a nice heart shape. Repeat this process with your other cake as well. Place one of the hearts onto a round cake board and sketch out an oval shape. This will be the base for our cake decoration.

To decorate our cake, we'll start by melting our white chocolate melts in the microwave. Heat them up for 30 seconds, stir for 20 seconds, and then stir again for 10 seconds until they're melted and smooth. Pour that over your cake board and spread it out. Lift up your cake board and tap it under the surface to get that chocolate nice and smooth. Heat up a knife and use it to smooth the edges so that it's not bumpy.

Heat up a knife and use it to smooth the edges so that it is not bumpy. Now, place some baking paper on top of your cake board and trace around the cakes using a pencil to get the heart shape. Flip that over so you don't get the pencil marks on the chocolate. Pour some melted chocolate onto the baked paper and spread it out fairly thin. You want to be able to cut a knife through it easily, but keep it fairly thin in the middle.

To finish the base of our cake, we'll need two pieces of baking paper with heart shapes drawn on them. Place one of the hearts onto your cake board and use some buttercream to join the two heart shapes together. Repeat this process with the other piece of baking paper. Now, pipe a swirl of chocolate around and down around that circle and back up the other side and curve it around. Add a couple more long swirls to each side and then twinkle dots just to give it some style.

Now, let's talk about the finishing touches for our cake board. We'll be using edible white luster dust and a dry paint brush to make it look shiny and pearlized. You can find luster dust at most cake decorating stores or online. Just look up "edible luster dust" online and you'll know what we're talking about.

Before we finish, let's talk about the special effects that would make this cake truly pop if we were making a movie out of it. We could add some splatters to the top of the cake using a knife or even just shaking off the chocolate shavings onto the plate. If you want to take it up another notch, you can stab your knife into the cake and create a splatter effect.

Now, let's get to the fun part - slicing into our cake! As we slice into the cake, the strawberry sauce will flow out of the bottom, making it look like the heart is bleeding. The first person who can count and name all of the Taylor Swift song titles mentioned in this video will be the lucky one to win a $30 voucher for the How To Cook That shop. And for the next 9 people, they'll get a free copy of the Surprise Cakes App from the iTunes app store.

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