Valentine Love Heart cakes...

I use to love, love, love, love heart sweets when I was little. Could not eat them, fast enough.

Ripping the packaging off to see what the next one said.

 "keep cool"

"in love" 

"cool dude"

 When I saw this tube of little packs in the pound shop, I could not wait to make something with them....

I did not expect them to go as fast as this though!!

Makes 12

Ingredients:

• 125g Self raising flour (sieved)
• 125g Golden Caster sugar
• 125g Margarine
• 2 Eggs
• 25g Coco powder
• 1tsp vanilla essence
• 4 tablespoons milk

Icing:

• 140g Icing sugar
• 100g Margarine
• 2 tablespoon summer fruit dilute pop

Topping:

• 10 love heart sweets for crushing
• 12 for the tops of the cakes

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180˚C/Gas Mark 4.
2. Place 12 muffin bun cases in a 12 holed muffin tray.
3. Place the margarine and golden caster sugar in a bowl and mix together with an electric whisk.
4. Beat in the eggs one at a time with a little of the flour.
5. Mix in the remaining flour and coco powder milk and vanilla essence.
6. Spoon the mixture evenly between the muffin cases.
7. Cook in the middle of a preheated oven for around 25 minutes.
8. Once cooked place on a wire rack and leave to cool completely.

Making the icing:

1. Sieve the icing sugar into a bowl and add the butter and pop. Whisk all together.
2. Place into a icing bag and pipe onto the buns.
3. Put 10 sweets into a food bag and crush them  with a rolling pin.
4. Sprinkle onto the cakes
5. Place a love heart sweet into the middle of each