Sweet Hearts for Your Valentine's Day Sweetheart

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner.  And how can you show your loved ones you care without breaking the bank?  How about Valentine Donuts – they’re very simple to design and you can create an annual tradition that is both personal

                                                        and thoughtful.

Start by thawing a dozen of Mel-O-Cream’s Heart-Shaped Shells.  Yes, these yeast-raised sweets are pre-cut into hearts before you  receive them – talk about your cutting corners!  

While you wait for these Valentines to thaw, you should start thinking about how you would like them to look as, literally, a finished product.  Do you go pink or red or white?  Are you going to add some intricate lacework around the edges or candies across the top?  Another favorite among our customers is making a multi-colored assortment of pastel hearts reminiscent of the popular candy hearts.  Keep in mind that the more intricate the design, the more time you will spend per donut.

 

What we’ve done here is top the hearts with an electric pink flat icing.  This was made with white icing and red food coloring.  Pink icing is much easier to render than red.  This is because white flat icing contains titanium dioxide or white pigment that makes it more difficult to alter the original color of the icing.  So even though you’ve added a large amount of red food coloring to your icing, it may result in a very pink pigment.  But not to worry, just continue to add red food coloring gradually to your icing until you achieve the tint of choice, like this cherry blush icing shown here.

Next, we added the same icing to a bag and composed our messages of fondness onto the hearts.  Check out the slides below for some ideas:

Design those valentines

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Here’s a quick tip if you wanted to add roses to your donuts:  Ask your cake decorator to make some roses with a butter cream based frosting.  These frostings stiffen quickly and will take form easier than the flat donut icing.  These roses can be made a few days ahead of time, so long as they are immediately refrigerated.  But if you want to learn how to make butter cream roses, our friends at Wilton have a very thorough pictorial procedure on their website.  If you choose to refrigerate them, we recommend dusting the pan with powdered sugar to ensure that they will not stick to the bottom.  Anyone who's made this mistake knows that you'll end up with a rosy mess!

These Sweet Hearts are sure to please on V-Day!