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Geometric Hearts: Simple Stylish Designs
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Sep 6, 2024
These geometric hearts are delicious gifts for Valentine’s Day, anniversaries, or just because, and although they look stunning and stylish they’re surprisingly simple to make! For my online cake decorating school click here: http://www.britishgirlbakes.com/online-courses To read a transcribed version of this tutorial (with photos!) click here: https://www.britishgirlbakes.com/chocolate-geometric-hearts/ SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week!
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These geometric hearts are delicious gifts for Valentine's Day, anniversaries, or just because
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And although they look stunning and stylish, they're surprisingly simple to make
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You'll need a geometric heart mould which you can buy on Amazon, and I found it easier to work
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with the hearts individually, so I ended up cutting them out so they were separate. Melt chocolate and I'll give you tips for doing that at the end of this video
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and add oil-based colors to tint the chocolate whatever color you like
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White chocolate can be tinted any color, but if you want brown or black chocolate
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I recommend using semi-sweet or dark chocolate and adding colour to that instead, since you'll need a lot less colour
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Then spoon the chocolate into a mould, using the back of the spoon to push it up the sides of the hearts to completely cover the shape of the mould
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Pay attention to the top of the sides, resting your spoon there for a moment to let the chocolate build up
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Otherwise the chocolate will be very thin there. You can get really creative with this part, brushing edible glitter into the mould before adding the chocolate
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or spooning in different colours of chocolate and swirling them for a marbled effect
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A paint brush is useful for details like this since it's so much smaller than a spoon
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Black chocolate makes these hearts look very dramatic and using edible glitter on the mould first
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gives it some sparkle to make it look really glitzy. If you're enjoying this tutorial
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please click the thumbs up button to like it and subscribe to my channel for a new cake decorating tutorial every week My favourite way to decorate these is with leopard print spots Paint chocolate spots onto the mould using a paint brush and let those set either at
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room temperature for about 30 minutes or in the fridge for about 5 minutes. Then use a darker
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colour to paint two lines around the spots, not completely outlining the spots. I'm using
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semi-sweet chocolate tinted with black gel for these. Let the chocolate set and then fill the
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the moulds with your third colour of chocolate, typically the lightest colour. If you're using a light coloured
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chocolate, it's a good idea to let this layer of chocolate set and then add another layer around
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the sides to make it a bit thicker so you don't see the filling through the chocolate. After the
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chocolate in the mould has set, which takes about 15 minutes in the fridge, it's time to fill them
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This is edible cookie dough which is safe to eat raw and the recipe is on british girlbakes.com
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cake pot mixture works well too, which you can make by crumbling up cake scraps like the domes you've trimmed to level cake layers, and then add a little bit of frosting, enough so that the cake crumbs come together, but not so much so that all you can taste is the frosting and not the cake
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Push the filling into the moulds to fill them, because if it's not packed tightly, the chocolate backing we're going to add next will seep down through any air pockets in the filling
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Leave about a quarter of an inch of space above the filling so that there room for that next layer of chocolate of chocolate If you have time put these back in the fridge so that the filling firms up and then you won get crumbs in the chocolate you about to spread on Melt some more chocolate spoon it over the
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hearts and spread it to cover the hearts. Use an offset spatula or the flat edge of a knife to
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wipe any excess chocolate off the mould. If you leave any chocolate around the top of the
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mould you'll have uneven pieces of chocolate sticking out from the edges of your heart
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which you'll see in a minute. Put these back in the fridge for 15 minutes to set and then push the
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the hearts out of the mould, pulling from opposite sides to loosen the chocolate from
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the sides of the mould and then pushing with your fingers from underneath to pop the chocolates
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up. The glitter looks really pretty and the angular chocolate shapes add some
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interest to these. We're going to add details to cover any imperfections like the
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filling you can see through the thin parts of this chocolate. I love how the leopard print
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looks. If you don't scrape off the excess chocolate around the mould you'll see it
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now and you can snap it off to tidy it up. For some finishing touches, spoon
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some melted chocolate into a Ziploc bag and cut a tiny bit off one corner. Squeeze the chocolate
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out through it to drizzle it over a section of the heart, to add detail and to cover up any
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air pockets or dents or parts where you can see the filling through the chocolate. You can press
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sprinkles onto this chocolate drizzle while it's still melted and sticky. The more you cut
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off the corner of your Ziploc bag the thicker the chocolate drizzle If you cut off a tiny amount and squeeze with a lot of pressure you create wavy lines which look really pretty You can add even more glitter now if you like and if you going to give these away as presents you should definitely make an extra one for yourself to try
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The crunch of the chocolate is really satisfying, and the chocolate pairs well with both the edible cookie dough and the cake pop mixture
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Now for a few more tips I wanted to share. First, if you melt your chocolate in the microwave, you should use 80% power and melt it for 30 seconds at a time to prevent the chocolate from overheating and see
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and to make your chocolate shiny. Overheated chocolate will be dull and might have some patchy stains on it where the chocolate got too hot
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I used one of these candy melting pots for one batch of my geometric hearts and it worked really well
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It melts the chocolate without burning it, and there's a setting to keep it warm so it doesn't set while you're still busy decorating
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If you're not sure how much chocolate to melt, fill your moulds with chocolate chips or chopped up chocolate, and that will be how much you need
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because it will melt down to be much less than this, which leaves room for the filling
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This is a great project to do if you only have short amounts of free time, because you can do it in stages
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You don't need a large chunk of time to complete the entire process from start to finish in one go
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I hope you make these and enjoy them, or surprise someone else for them. Please tag British Girl Bakes in your photos on Instagram so I can see how you decorate yours
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You'll find all of my recipes and tutorials on British Girlbakes.com and my free course on 10 frosting techniques
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as well as lots of other online courses. Thanks for watching
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