Valentine Cake Memory

[dem in texas]

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.

[elleng]

1. That's a lovely memory!

[PADemD]

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

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]

3. Same here, except it's a Sachertorte

[LoveMyCali]

4. I was thinking of making a heart shaped cake

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]

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

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