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Sweet Love Letter Cake
A soft sponge cake filled with condensed-milk cream cheese and decorated like a white chocolate love letter.
Prep time
45 min
Cook time
15 min
Total time
1 hr 30 min
Yield
6
Ingredients
14
Steps
18
Filed under: chocolate, eggs, milk, cheese, baked.
Source channel: Dessertliebe
Key ingredients
SPONGE, eggs, pinch salt, sugar, baking powder.
Ingredients
- SPONGE
- 2 eggs
- 1 pinch salt
- 100 g sugar
- 50 ml vegetable oil
- 10 g baking powder
- 150 ml milk
- 200 g plain flour
- FILLING
- 200 g cream cheese, softened
- 200 ml sweetened condensed milk
- DECORATION
- 300 g white chocolate or modelling chocolate
- 20 g vegetable oil
- Red food colouring
Method
- Preheat the oven to 170°C (338°F).
- Grease and line a shallow rectangular cake tin.
- Whisk the eggs, salt and sugar until pale and foamy.
- Add the vegetable oil and milk.
- Sift in the flour and baking powder.
- Mix gently until smooth.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin.
- Bake for approximately 15 minutes.
- Leave the sponge to cool completely.
- Mix the softened cream cheese with the condensed milk.
- Trim or shape the sponge into an envelope or letter form.
- Spread or pipe the cream cheese filling over the cake.
- Melt the white chocolate gently with the vegetable oil.
- Allow the chocolate to cool until thick enough to shape or coat.
- Cover the cake to resemble a white envelope.
- Tint a small amount of chocolate red.
- Decorate the cake with a red heart or wax-seal design.
- Chill until the chocolate has set.