valentines cake

hey guys i was just looking through some pictures of cakes I've made from before and i remembered a valentines cake my dad asked me to make for my mum. this cake doesn't need to be made for valentines day you could make it for any occasion. This looks like a valentines cake because its a love heart.

Ingredients for cake:
16 ounces self raising flour
16 ounces butter
16 ounces caster sugar
8 eggs
1-2 tsp vanilla essence
a few drops of water

Method:

1. preheat your oven to 170⁰c  and line the tin/mould with grease proof paper or butter or even the 1 calorie spray
2. cream the butter and sugar together until it feels smooth
3. crack the eggs one by one and add to the mixture. Mix it for a bit and add the vanilla essence and water
4. add in the flour. Once it has been mixed till its light and fluff pour the mixture evenly between the two tins/moulds 
5. put the cakes in the oven for around about 20-25 mins until they have risen well and look golden
6. leave the cakes to cool and then cut the shape of the cake that you want also trim the top of the cake
7. make the buttercream using the recipe i have put up on my blog for your cake and if you want colour it with GEL colours. If you use liquid food colouring u will have to use more for a darker shade
8. spread a thin layer on the cake all around, place the cake on a cake board
9. fill a piping bag with a rose nozzle inside full of buttercream with whatever colour you want it can be the same as the thin layer or the different.
10. when u get to the stage of piping the roses watch the first 30 seconds of this video as this is what i watched when i was learning how to pipe the roses   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnfJDja_OMQ
11. you can continue to to do swirls all around the cake but you can leave it like what i did and stick shapes on made out of gumpaste

i hope this help and enjoy!!