Giant Conversation Heart Cake (Candy Hearts Cake) for Valentine’s Day

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Today I am showing you how to make the world’s largest conversation heart! These candy hearts are the quintessential candy available around valentines day. Surprisingly, making DIY Candy Hearts is simple, so I made it giant....and built a cake to go with it.

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Giant Conversation Heart
Ingredients:
•¾ teaspoon unflavoured gelatin
•¼ cup clear soda (ginger ale, Sprite, 7-up etc)
•2- 3 cups icing sugar
•Candy flavouring
•Gel paste
•Edible writing pen

Procedure:
1.Combine soda and gelatin in a microwavable container. Stir to combine. Heat in the microwave in 30 second intervals until gelatin crystals have dissolved.
2.In a large bowl, combine 2 cups of icing sugar, gelatin mixture, flavouring and gel paste. Stir to combine. Add additional ½ cups of icing sugar until mixture is no longer sticky. It should feel like fondant.
3.Shape into a heart and insert a dowel into the bottom. Set aside to dry 24-48 hours.
4.Write message on heart with an edible writer once heart is dry.

Giant Conversation Heart Cake for Valentine’s Day
Ingredients and Materials:
•6-8 cups Vanilla cake batter colored white (   • Easy Homemade Vanilla Cake from Scratch: V...  )
•2 Prepared 6” vanilla cakes colored pink and purple
•Pink vanilla buttercream (   • How to Frost a Cake with Homemade Buttercr...  )
•Conversation Hearts Giant conversation heart (recipe above)
•Pink and white carnations

Procedure:
1.Preheat oven to 350F. Prepare 2, 6” cake pans with non-stick spray and parchment paper.
2.Prepare pink and purple 6” round cakes and allow to cool completely. Slice into wedges and remove a heart shape from each wedge.
3.Place one cup of vanilla cake batter in the bottom of each pans. Place heart wedges into the pans to form at least one ring of cake in each pan. Fill the outer edge and center with cake batter. Ensure that the colored cake pieces are entirely covered with cake batter. Place pans into the oven to bake for 55-60 minutes. Once baked, place cake on a cooling rack for 5 minutes before removing cake from the pan.
4.Allow the cakes to cool completely before leveling. Attach one cake layer to a cake board with a swipe of buttercream. Spread a thin layer of pink buttercream between the two layers and stack the second layer on top of the first. Once the two layers are stacked, cover the entire cake in pink buttercream.
5.Arrange the conversation hearts in twos of matching color and arrange around the bottom of the cake. When once around the cake is complete, start the next row by offsetting the hearts between the ones below. Cover the entire cake with the hearts.
6.Place carnations around the top of the cake, and insert the giant conversation heart into the cake.
7.Cake is best consumed within 2-3 days and should be kept in a sealed container in the fridge.