Valentine Petite Fours

Name: Valentine Petite Fours
Prep time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 10.75 ounce Sara Lee Pound Cake (frozen); 1 or 2 tubs Store-Bought Vanilla Frosting; Some Food coloring of your choice; Some Valentine-Themed Sprinkles

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These Valentine petite fours are so easy to make! You can arrange store-bought items into your own custom Valentine’s day dessert.

I made my petit fours with store-bought frozen pound cake and a tub of frosting. It’s quick to make and tastes great. By saving steps to bake a cake, you can concentrate on decorating the cake for your special someone 😉

Feel free to arrange this recipe with different frostings or add fillings

What are petit fours?

A petit four is a small bite-sized confectionery or savory appetizer. The name is French and it means “small oven”. ^[1]

Ingredients (Makes about 14 petite fours)

1 10.75 ounce Sara Lee Pound Cake, Frozen
1 or 2 Tubs Store-Bought Vanilla Frosting
Some Pink Gel Food Coloring
Some Valentine-themed sprinkles

Instructions

1.Thaw the frozen pound cake then slice it into 8, 3/4″ thick slices.

2. With a heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut two hearts from each slice. You may only cut one heart from the edge slices. Place the heart-shaped cakes on a baking sheet fitted with a cooling rack and parchment paper.

3.Heat a tub of vanilla frosting for 30 seconds in a microwave. Keep heating up in 5 -10 second increments until the frosting is runny enough to pour.

4. Pour the frosting over each heart-shaped cake. Try to cover each one completely. If you run out of frosting, remove the rack and collect the frosting from the parchment paper. Reheat the frosting again and reuse it.

5. Decorate the heart-shaped cake with sprinkles. Let your creativity lead you on this step! You can add some sprinkles on top. Or color the leftover frosting and put it in a piping bag then draw some messages on the cakes.

What to do with the cake scraps?

The extra cake scraps can be used to make cake pops! Put any leftover cake scraps in a food processor/blender then mix the cake crumbs with frosting. Shape the cake scrubs into balls and place them onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Put them in the freezer for about 30 minutes.

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Valentine Petite Fours

These Valentine petite fours are so easy to make! You can arrange store-bought items into your own custom Valentine’s day dessert.

Course Dessert

Cuisine French

Keyword Cake, Petite fours

Prep Time 30

Servings 14 petite fours

Equipment

1 1/2" Heart-shaped cookie cutter
1 Baking sheet
1 Cooling rack
1 sheet of parchment paper
1 piping bag and piping tip optional

Ingredients

1 10.75 ounce Sara Lee Pound Cake frozen
1 or 2 tubs Store-Bought Vanilla Frosting
Some Food coloring of your choice
Some Valentine-Themed Sprinkles

Instructions

Thaw the frozen pound cake then slice it into 8, 3/4″ thick slices.
With a heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut two hearts from each slice. You may only cut one heart from the edge slices. Place the heart-shaped cakes on a baking sheet fitted with a cooling rack and parchment paper.
Heat a tub of vanilla frosting for 30 seconds in a microwave. Keep heating up in 5 -10 second increments until the frosting is runny enough to pour.
Pour the frosting over each heart-shaped cake. Try to cover each one completely. If you run out of frosting, remove the rack and collect the frosting from the parchment paper. Reheat the frosting again and reuse it.
Decorate the heart-shaped cake with sprinkles. Let your creativity lead you on this step! You can add some sprinkles on top. Or color the leftover frosting and put it in a piping bag then draw some messages on the cakes.