Swirl Valentine’s Day Cake

This festive and delicious Valentine’s Day Cake is so easy to make! It uses a boxed mix that you turn half pink with strawberry Jell-O mix for a swirled cake when you cut into. The frosting is canned that you dye and drizzle to make it look festive. Anyone can make this Valentine’s Day dessert. Perfect for letting the kids help, too!

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The perfect easy Valentine’s Day dessert is this pretty and delicious Valentine’s Day Bundt Cake! The inside cake is swirled pink. The top is a mixture of drizzled white and pink cake frosting.

It’s so easy to make using a boxed cake mix and canned frosting, so even if you are busy you can whip this up in no time at all and treat your sweetheart!

Why this Recipe Works:

• Starts with a box cake mix + ingredients to make it. Dye it half pink with food dye or strawberry Jell-O mix for a surprise when you cut into this cake.
• The frosting is a store bought vanilla frosting that is half colored pink. Warm it up and drizzle it over the top of the cake for a fun look.
• Don’t forget the Valentine’s Day Sprinkles to top everything! Life is more fun with sprinkles!

Ingredients Needed

• White cake mix + Ingredients to prepare cake
• Strawberry Jell-O mix
• Container white frosting
• Pink Gel Food Coloring

Steps to Prepare

• Prep – Preheat oven to temperature on cake mix. Generously grease a bundt cake pan and set aside.
• Prepare Cake – Make cake batter according to directions on box. Pour 1/2 of the batter into a small bowl; stir 1 Tbsp strawberry Jell-O into cake mix until well mixed. Pour 1/2 of the red cake batter into bottom of pan. Carefully pour remaining white batter over red batter. Top with the rest of the red batter. The red batter will not completely cover the white batter.
• Bake – Bake as directed on box.
• Cool – Cool cake 5 minutes. Flip out of pan onto cooling rack and cool cake completely.
• Frost – When cake is cooled, divide the frosting evenly into 2 microwaveable bowls. Microwave 1 bowl of frosting on high a few seconds until smooth enough to drizzle over cake. With spoon, drizzle all of the 1st bowl of microwaved frosting over the cake. Repeat microwaving second bowl. Stir in the pink gel food coloring. Drizzle over cake. Note: you do not need to use all the frosting!
• Serve – Let the cake stand until frosting is set. Enjoy!

Helpful Tools

• Bundt Cake Pan
• Hand Mixer

Do I need to use Jell-O Mix in Cake?

No you can also just dye it with red or pink food coloring to give it that fun pink tint to make the swirl in the cake. The Jell-O mix does give it a slight hint of strawberry but nothing to strong.

Storage Tips!

This cake is best stored in a cool place in an air tight container.

If it is uncut it can last up to five days. After it’s been cut into it will dry out faster and only last up to four days. To help prevent the cake from drying out you can make sure to wrap the cut ends in plastic wrap to keep the moisture in.

If you want to maximize it’s shelf life store it in the refrigerator.

More Valentine’s Day Recipes!

• A sweet Valentine’s Day Snack Mix with popcorn, M&M’s and peanuts. Beware it’s super addicting!
• Red Velvet Cake Truffles are always popular on Valentine’s Day! Red Velvet Cake coated in a candy coating.

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Valentine’s Swirl Cake

Super Easy Dessert Starts with a Boxed Cake Mix and Becomes the Perfect Easy Valentine’s Day Dessert!

Prep:15 mins

Cook:35 mins

Total:50 mins

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Ingredients

• ▢ 1 box white cake mix + Ingredients to prepare cake
• ▢ 1 Tbsp strawberry jello
• ▢ 1 container white frosting
• ▢ Pink Gel Food Coloring

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Instructions

• Preheat oven to temperature on cake mix. Generously grease a fluted tube cake pan. Make cake batter according to directions on box.
• Pour 1/2 of the batter into a small bowl; stir 1 Tbsp strawberry jello into cake mix until well mixed.
• Pour 1/2 of the red cake batter into bottom of pan. Carefully pour remaining white batter over red batter. Top with the rest of the red batter. The red batter will not completely cover the white batter.
• Bake as directed on box. Cool cake 5 minutes. Flip out of pan onto cooling rack and cool cake completely.
• When cake is cooled, divide the frosting evenly into 2 microwaveable bowls. Microwave 1 bowl of frosting on high a few seconds until smooth enough to drizzle over cake. With spoon, drizzle all of the 1st bowl of microwaved frosting over the cake. Repeat microwaving second bowl. Stir in the pink gel food coloring. Drizzle over cake. *Note you do not need to use all the frosting!
• Let the cake stand until frosting is set. Enjoy!

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Nutrition Information

Serving: 1, Calories: 162kcal (8%), Carbohydrates: 35g (12%), Protein: 1g (2%), Fat: 1g (2%), Sodium: 301mg (13%), Potassium: 26mg (1%), Sugar: 18g (20%), Calcium: 94mg (9%), Iron: 0.8mg (4%)

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