Cooking & Baking

dem in texas

(2,674 posts) Thu Feb 13, 2014, 11:27 PM Feb 2014

Valentine Cake Memory

So many of our memories are tied to favorite foods and family gatherings where food was shared. I grew up in a family with 6 kids and my mother was a cake baker. She had a cake for every occasion. For Valentine's Day, she'd pull out her heart shaped cake pans and bake devil's food cake. She iced the layers in white 7 minute icing and sprinkled crushed peppermint on top. What a great cake, we kids all looked forward to that cake.

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Valentine Cake Memory (Original Post) dem in texas Feb 2014 OP

That's a lovely memory! elleng Feb 2014 #1

I inherited my Mom's heart-shaped cake pans. PADemD Feb 2014 #2

Same here, except it's a Sachertorte Fortinbras Armstrong Feb 2014 #3

I was thinking of making a heart shaped cake LoveMyCali Feb 2014 #4

Geez… do they even make those pans anymore? MrMickeysMom Feb 2014 #5

elleng

(131,657 posts)

1. That's a lovely memory!

Reply to dem in texas (Original post)

Thu Feb 13, 2014, 11:30 PM

Feb 2014

PADemD

(4,482 posts)

2. I inherited my Mom's heart-shaped cake pans.

Reply to dem in texas (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 08:43 AM

Feb 2014

We also got a heart-shaped cake for Valentine's day, only a French Vanilla cake with pink icing and candles for our birthday.

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)

3. Same here, except it's a Sachertorte

Reply to dem in texas (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 10:35 AM

Feb 2014

LoveMyCali

(2,015 posts)

4. I was thinking of making a heart shaped cake

Reply to dem in texas (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 12:52 AM

Feb 2014

with an 8X8 pan and a round cake and frosting it with strawberry butter cream frosting. It looks pretty easy and I just can't spend the money for a specialty cake pan.

MrMickeysMom

(20,453 posts)

5. Geez… do they even make those pans anymore?

Reply to dem in texas (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 08:20 AM

Feb 2014

Nice memory. I think the 7 minute icing was my mom's and that drew back a memory reading it.

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