To celebrate Valentine’s Day, delight your partner with this impressive heart layer cake… Find this and many more recipes on the Giallozafferano App in English itunes.apple.com *** For Valentine’s Day I received a bunch of roses, and I want to reciprocate this romantic gift with my special recipe, the heart cake! First of all, combine the diced softened butter with the sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer with a whisk attachment and beat for at least 10 minutes until you have a very pale and foamy creamy mixture. Then, beating constantly, add one egg at a time, at room temperature, until you get this result. Now beat in the melted chocolate, after cooling a bit, until blended. Here’s the resulting mixture. At this point, in a bowl, mix the flour, the cocoa powder, the baking powder and the salt, and sift them into the mixture… alternating with the milk. Pour the resulting dough into a heart-shaped cake pan, that has been buttered and floured; this one holds 5 cups (1,2 lt). Now bake the cake at 350°F (180°C), after about 45 minutes test for doneness with a toothpick and, if needed, bake for an additional 5-10 minutes. While the cake is baking, move on to the hazelnut cream, to fill our heart layer cake. First of all, beat the softened butter with the hazelnut paste, that, be careful, is not the hazelnut spread that can be eaten alone (with bread, for example): the hazelnut paste is an unsweetened paste, made from ground hazelnuts, that is used to make the hazelnut …