Easy DIY Valentine’s Day Cake Decorated to Perfection

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Need a last minute Valentine's Day gift idea for someone who loves to eat? I've got the perfect idea! This easy DIY Valentine's Day cake is delicious and beautiful. Decorate this cake for him and he'll be swooning!

How many people out there are last minute gifters? If you’re raising your hands, don’t worry, it’s in solidarity with my raised hand right now.

I struggle every year with figuring out what to get Casey, my fiance, for Valentine’s Day. Usually, it ends in a conversation on February 12th where we both complain about how we don’t know what to get each other and make a pact to get each other nothing.

But NOT.

THIS.

YEAR.

Need a last minute Valentine's Day gift idea for someone who loves to eat? I've got the perfect idea! This easy DIY Valentine's Day cake is delicious and beautiful. Decorate this cake for him and he'll be swooning!

You know that old saying: “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.”? Well I don’t like to generalize, typically, butttttttt. It’s definitely true in Casey’s situation.

This man would do just about anything for a red velvet-flavored whatever with a little cream cheese somethin-somethin on it, ya know what I mean? So I had the best idea: let’s make him a cake.

Need a last minute Valentine's Day gift idea for someone who loves to eat? I've got the perfect idea! This easy DIY Valentine's Day cake is delicious and beautiful. Decorate this cake for him and he'll be swooning!

THE VALENTINE’S DAY CAKE HOW-TO GUIDE

This Valentine’s Day cake was SO FUN to put together. And while I tried to put it together secretly (that never works because we spend quite a bit of time together), he ended up joining in on the fun when I was icing the cake! It turned into a couple baking class, where we were the students and YouTube was the renowned professor.

All four layers are red velvet cake and, wouldn’t ya know, I used a cake mix. Your girl isn’t fancy (like at all).

Need a last minute Valentine's Day gift idea for someone who loves to eat? I've got the perfect idea! This easy DIY Valentine's Day cake is delicious and beautiful. Decorate this cake for him and he'll be swooning!

The icing is cream cheese icing and I made it from scratch. The icing was perfection, honestly. It was the perfect consistency for piping, the perfect flavor. The recipe I used is linked here.

I used food coloring to make the different colors. The white color is just plain cream cheese icing, and then I added various amounts of red to make the pink and red icing batches. It took about three batches of cream cheese icing to get all of this frosted.

Need a last minute Valentine's Day gift idea for someone who loves to eat? I've got the perfect idea! This easy DIY Valentine's Day cake is delicious and beautiful. Decorate this cake for him and he'll be swooning!

THE TIPS

I used three different tips to accomplish the icing look on the layers and top. They are linked:

Here

Here

and Here.

Let me just tell you that while I was making this cake, there were some things I stumbled accross that are n e c c e s s a r y when making cake, and I’d love to write a whole post about that in the future! Would you be interested in a post like that? Let me know in the comments!

If you loved this Valentine’s Day cake, try adding it to your next Galentine’s Day brunch! I did a whole post on that not too long ago, and people are L O V I N G it! Make sure to pop over there next. Click here.

Want a cake like this but don’t have the time? Shoot me a message! I love making custom cakes for people. It’s such a fun way to work together!

As always, thanks for tagging along.

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