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Sussudio: 1980s Satin Ruffle Pillow Inspired Valentine’s Day Heart Cake!

By Lyndsay // Coco Cake Land

My inspiration for this cake was a 1980s satin pillow with ruffle trim – did I succeed?? Haha… well I think it looks pretty 80’s and it turned out pretty cute and ruffly! File this wild cake under: Why Not.

1980s Satin Pillow Ruffle Heart Cake

You Will Need:

A heart shaped cake pan
Your favourite recipe for a 2 layer cake
4 cups of vanilla buttercream or frosting
Gel food colouring in fuchsia and purple
Three piping bags fitted with an open star tip – or you can re-use the same one!
An offset spatula

Baking Tip: Grease and flour your heart shaped cake pan before pouring your batter in. I also cut a piece of parchment paper to size which helps immensely with cake release.

Make it!

1. Bake your cake according to recipe instructions. Let cool completely.

2. Run an offset spatula around the edges of the cake pan to loosen the cake. Remove the cake from cake pan and place on a large cake plate or cake board.

3. Mix your buttercream colours – divide your buttercream in thirds, keeping one cream coloured and making one third pink and one third purple.

4. Frost the entire exterior of the cake with pink buttercream.

5. Fill each piping bag with a different colour.

6. Pipe the sides of the heart cake with cream coloured buttercream.

7. Pipe the top of the cake with pink buttercream, doing three rows of drop stars.

8. Fill the rest of the cake with the purple buttercream to make a purple heart center!

Cut a slice for your sweetie and enjoy! May as well throw on some Phil Collins No Jacket Required while you’re at it.

See ya soon, cake pals!

xo Lyndsay

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  1. Post Grad Hair Cut

    February 12, 2014 at 4:00 am

    Yum!! I was thinking about making a cake on Friday! This might do perfectly.

    Reply
  2. Coco Cake Land

    February 12, 2014 at 4:19 am

    sam!! nice to hear from you – super cute, you definitely should make it! xo

    Reply
  3. Jan Halvarson

    February 12, 2014 at 5:04 am

    This does look delicious! What do you do with all these cakes?

    Reply
  4. { Nina Designs }

    February 12, 2014 at 8:46 am

    This is so beautiful!

    Reply
  5. Betsy Eves @JavaCupcake

    February 12, 2014 at 9:36 am

    What a great technique for decorating a cake! LOVE The use of the bag/tip and the multi colors!! Great job!! <3

    Reply
  6. Coco Cake Land

    February 12, 2014 at 3:05 pm

    @nina designs, thank you so much! ^__^

    @betsy – thank you so much betsy! glad you like it… thanks for stopping by! xo

    Reply
  7. Coco Cake Land

    February 12, 2014 at 3:06 pm

    @jan – haha! thank you!! i always have a piece…. oh dear… then i end up giving it away to neighbours or friends, or bring it to a family event… or sometimes give it away to pals on Facebook! :)

    Reply
  8. Neide MC

    February 12, 2014 at 4:11 pm

    Is beautiful, in Brazil, valentine’s day is in June.
    Have a nice week!

    Reply
  9. Coco Cake Land

    February 12, 2014 at 5:01 pm

    @neide – i had no idea!!! very cool – thank you! ^__^

    Reply
  10. Ed Francis Hypnotherapist DCH

    February 12, 2014 at 7:14 pm

    Brilliant posts pics and the cakes area awesome. well done

    Reply
  11. Neha

    February 12, 2014 at 9:28 pm

    You succeeded spectacularly : ) This cake makes me so happy!

    Reply
  12. Coco Cake Land

    February 12, 2014 at 10:25 pm

    @ed francis – thank so much! :)

    @neha – aww you are sweet! ^__^ thanks neha!

    Reply
  13. Sarah

    January 26, 2015 at 5:42 pm

    LOVE this cake! I see that you just made one layer- I’m not so great at layer cakes and would prefer to do one layer– do you know what size heart shaped pan you used to get one layer?

    Reply
  14. Cindy

    February 11, 2016 at 9:51 pm

    I’m so happy this cake exists!! I am pretty sure I had a similar pillow on my bed as a kid.

    Reply

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