Valentine's Copycat Cakes (Print Version)

# Ingredients:

→ Cake

01 - 1 box white cake mix
02 - 1 cup granulated sugar
03 - 1 ⅓ cups water
04 - 3 eggs, room temperature
05 - 1 tbsp vanilla extract
06 - 2 tbsp vegetable oil
07 - 1 cup all-purpose flour
08 - ½ tsp kosher salt
09 - 1 cup full fat sour cream

→ Filling

10 - 7 oz marshmallow creme
11 - ¾ cup salted butter
12 - 2 cups powdered sugar
13 - 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
14 - ¼ tsp kosher salt
15 - 2-4 tbsp heavy cream

→ Coating

16 - 32 oz almond bark
17 - 3 tbsp crisco
18 - Pink gel food dye

# Instructions:

01 - Mix cake ingredients until smooth. Divide between lined sheet pans. Bake at 350°F for 15-18 minutes. Cool and chill.
02 - Beat marshmallow creme and butter. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, salt, and cream until spreadable.
03 - Cut 32 hearts from cake. Fill and sandwich. Freeze 1 hour.
04 - Melt almond bark with crisco. Reserve some white, color rest pink. Cool slightly.
05 - Dip frozen cakes in pink coating. Set 10 minutes. Drizzle white coating.

# Notes:

01 - Must use gel food coloring
02 - Freeze before coating
03 - Cakes are intentionally thin