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Needed:

12 x 18-inch sheet cake pan (2 1/2 cake mixes for 1-layer)
12-inch heart-shaped cake pan (1 1/4 cake mixes) 1-layer
Buttercream icing in white, red and green (We carry red icing - or GOOD food coloring!)
Food colors Red, Blue, Yellow and Green, Orange
Cardboards (I recommend 2, for sturdiness) and Doily or FDA foil
1 sheet of Wafer paper, 8x11"
Clear Piping Gel
TIPS: 16, 21, 70, 104, 252, 352
Cake Pearls strand (Placed in center of #70 icing ruffle) optional
Spatulas: 8" Taperd and 8" Angled Wiltonâ Spatulas
Fine Artist Brush
Non-toxic pen for outlining pattern (I used a Bicâ pen.) OR Food Coloring Pen

Do BE MINE picture ahead and dry for 2-4 days:
Trace the "be My Love" pattern onto wafer paper using a non-toxic pen. Spread clear piping gel thinly over the wafer paper using an 8" angled spatula.. "Color-in" as desired using water-diluted paste colors and a fine art brush. Let your pattern dry until it does not feel sticky, 2-4 days, depending on amount of humidity in the air. It will curl slightly. This is not a problem. The Gel will stay pretty and shiny even when dried. Bake the 2 cakes.

IMPORTANT: Place the heart-shaped on a rack. Ice the sheet cake (but NOT the heart-shaped yet). Turn your Wafer Paper picture over and spread CLEAR Piping Gel on the back. Mark the icing with the pan, Carefully centering, place the picture on the iced 12x18 cake.

Diagram 1: Cut out the center of the un-iced 12-inch heart-shaped cake to the point that the hole is as big (or a little bigger) than the Wafer Paper picture. The pattern below should be enlarged a little and fit nicely in about a 7-inch heart opening. Slide the heart-shaped cake onto the 12x18 centered, so that the Wafer Paper pattern will show down inside. Ice the heart-shaped cake and decorate.

PATTERN FOR PIPING GEL PICTURE:

SKETCH SHOWN ABOVE:
Pearl Strand...Pearls aren't on the real cake, but if you can't do that border,
maybe you can do one that has a double ruffle (tip #70) to add them to in the center.
TIP: Place pearls on as soon as you add the ruffle so icing will still be sticky.

Diagram above: 12" Heart Cake:

Cutting out the heart:

Cut out about a 7" heart-shaped opening as shown above. Discard center cake.

*Transferring onto cake will be much easier if you have turned the heart cake out onto a plastic wrap-covered cardboard to cool.
Then you can slide the cut out heart cake onto the 12x18", removing the plastic wrap (from underneath) as you go.

*Wedding cake decorators will recognize this as the same method as used for transferring large wedding cake layers).

THE FINISHED CAKE

TIP: Use THINNED icing for the cut inside of the heart cake so you won’t pull off crumbs on the cake.
Also, use a thin-bladed spatula for icing the cut cake.
Our Wiltonâ 8-inch Tapered knife is absolutely perfect for icing cut cakes!
GREAT for a Groom's cake or for your sweetheart!

Idea by Dolores McCann

Please do not copy my picture to your website. Here is the URL to this one:
http://w3.one.net/~proicer/cakepict/jan00/grooms.html