Chocolate Cake "Black Hearts" (Victorian) ★★★

As it's nearing Valentine's Day, I would like to share a festive recipe. This is very simple recipe - really, you could easily use a boxed cake mix for convenience (if you aren't going for historical accuracy!).

CHOCOLATE CAKE
"BLACK HEARTS"

Dip small heart-shaped cakes - made by baking any simple chocolate cake recipe in small heart-shaped pans - into melted sweet chocolate. Before the chocolate dries, carefully pipe a small white fondant heart in the center of each cake and fill with raspberry or cranberry jelly.

The Verdict:
These little cakes were tasty! But using semi-sweet baking chocolate made them very rich. Next time I would not use so much. I also used whipped cream instead of fondant because it seemed easier and tastier to me. I would eat these again.

Modernized Recipe:
(Adapted from Victoriana)

1 CHOCOLATE CAKE, cooked
melted CHOCOLATE
WHIPPED CREAM or FONDANT
any red JAM

1. Bake your cake in a pan with heart shapes or cut out heart shapes with a cookie cutter after baking.
2. Dip or spread melted chocolate over each heart cake.
3. Pipe fondant or whipped cream on top of the chocolate and top the whipped cream with jam.