The Valentine's inspired White Cake
This one, yet again, is from James McNair’s Cakes. I have to say, if you’re making cakes, it has some very good advice and recipes!
After a week off, while we were in Mexico, I’m back to baking. This week I went for a regular white cake. It ends up very much like a white cake you would buy in a cake mix, but tastier, if I do say so myself. In honour of Valentine’s Day, however, the fancy part of this cake was its shape. H’s grandmother has so many cooking gadgets and cookbooks! She lent me a heart shaped cake pan in which I baked this cake.
Heart-shaped silicon cupcake liner
For Christmas, I got a set of six silicon heart shaped cupcake liners so I thought I’d combine them for the final design. I also made a fluffy icing from the aforementioned recipe book. It is very messy to work with but tastes great and is very light, sweet but not too grainy tasting and the colour shows up well in it.
Even if this is a simple cake, it is quite good!
There has been a request that I post the combined weight of H and myself from the beginning of the year so that people can start a pool on our weight by the end of the year. I understand the reasoning, 50 cakes is a lot to eat on our own but I do have to warn that we are trying to share the cakes around when we can and often leave much of a cake wherever we eat it.
I am happy to oblige. Around about January 1st, our combined weight was 279 pounds. I will not be posting updates, you’ll just have to wait to see the final results at the end of the year.
Michelle 
Heather