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Ding Dong Valentines Chocolate Hearts

written by Vera Z. February 4, 2014
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Ding Dong Valentine’s Chocolate Hearts are a delicious, fun and festive Valentine’s Day treat! Show your loved ones that they make your life sweeter with this easy recipe!

Sharing the love this Valentine's Day with these These heart-shaped chocolate mini cakes.

If you are a food blogger, as soon as the calendar turns to February, everything is clear – it’s time for Valentine’s day dessert! I have to admit that, in recent years, for me, sometimes it was a real nightmare! Usually, in days like that, you get hundreds of beautiful Valentine’s recipes! In the blink of an eye, my bookmark is full of sweet little things that complicate my life for days!

Hmm, these cookies are really beautiful! That is it!“, I would think to myself, and as soon as I (almost) made the decision, here come the beautiful red velvet cupcakes! And while the fight between these two deserts was raging, suddenly I saw a beautiful photo of a third dessert and that got me back to the beginning. And so long and so forth…

But this year, “gods of baking”  were on my side :). In the middle of January on Pinterest, I found a beautiful recipe for Cream Filled Chocolate Heart-Shaped Cakes and I knew that was “it”. These small chocolate hearts looked so sweet that there was simply no need for any further research. And when I saw that the whole Valentines Chocolate Hearts recipe is a version of the “Ding Dong” cake that we all just love, things were crystal clear.

And so, a few days ago, I found my old cookie cutter in the shape of a heart and full of enthusiasm, started making my Valentines chocolate hearts. And everything started off just fine, until the moment I was supposed to pour chocolate icing on the small hearts. My “gods of sweets” turned their backs on me and even though I did everything as it was written in the recipe, the icing was so thick that there was no chance the hearts would be perfectly smooth and beautiful. On the contrary, they looked so unsmooth that I felt sad looking at them.

“Maybe you should make a sacrifice for your “baking gods” said my husband, obviously making fun of me. “OK, I will be the victim and I will eat some of your unsucessful hearts”, said Darko while laughing out loud and munching one of my cookies. I decided to try once more with icing, but to increase the temperature in which I will melt the chocolate! Bingo! The chocolate was now thinner and I was beginning to get perfect little hearts!

Valentine's Chocolate Hearts

But, soon I had a new problem. I had one last bag with which I was supposed to make the word “love” with a 7 minute meringue frosting over the chocolate, and I cut it just a little thicker than I was supposed to. And so, the word “love”, which was supposed to be tiny but clear, was like a white stain over my perfect Valentines chocolate hearts!

“I told you I should have sacrificed a few more hearts, but you drove me out of the kitchen”, said my husband in his usual frivolous way, while I was desperate in my troubles. But, life goes on. There was no going back and in the end, I decided to make a few photos of my Valentine’s recipe for this year.

All in all, it was not as bad as it looked in the first moment. But, whatever the look of chocolate hearts was, the taste was great! Well, if you ever tried Ding Dong cake or Hostess Cupcakes, then you know what a treat this is.
And another problem was that my husband ate all of the hearts very quickly so I was out of Valentine dessert.

“Don’t worry”, he consoled me. “At least we have sacrificed so much cakes to your “baking gods” that your next recipe will definitely be absolutely perfect.” 🙂

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Ding Dong Valentines Chocolate Hearts


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  • Author: OMGChocolateDesserts.com
  • Prep Time: 30 minutes
  • Cook Time: 35 minutes
  • Total Time: 65 minutes
  • Yield: 8 hearts 1x
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: American
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Ding Dong Valentine’s Chocolate Hearts are a delicious, fun and festive Valentine’s Day treat! Show your loved ones that they make your life sweeter with this easy recipe!


Ingredients

For the cake:

  • 1 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
  • 1/2 cup hot, brewed coffee
  • 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 cups sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

For 7 Minute Frosting:

  • 1 egg whites
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/8 cup light corn syrup
  • 1 tablespoons water
  • 1 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • Pinch of salt

Chocolate Ganache:

  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1 tsp unsalted butter
  • 6 oz semisweet chocolate, chopped

Instructions

Cake:

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. Spray with cooking spray 9-inch round cake pan (or square 8×8 inch pan), line with parchment paper, and spray the paper with cooking spray and set aside.
  2. Place chopped chocolate in a small bowl and pour brewed coffee over the chocolate and whisk to combine until the chocolate is melted. Set aside.
  3. In a large bowl, sift together dry ingredients: sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt and set aside.
  4. In a large bowl beat eggs with an electric mixer, until pale yellow, than add oil, buttermilk, vanilla and chocolate-coffee mixture. Continue beating to combine well.
  5. Add dry mixture into wet mixture and beat until evenly combined but don’t over-mix it. Spread batter in prepared pan and bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out (almost) clean.
  6. Cool cake in the pans 5-10mins and transfer it on the wire racks to cool completely.
  7. Using heart shaped cookie cutter, carefully cut hearts of the cake (I cut 8 hearts-number depends on size of your cookie cutter).
  8. Place hearts upside on a large baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
  9. Using a cupcake corer (or a sharp knife) carefully cut out a cone of cake from each heart.

To make the 7 minute frosting:

  1. Combine all ingredients in a metal bowl set over a saucepan of simmering water and beat with a handheld electric mixer at high speed until frosting is thick and fluffy(6 to 7 minutes).
  2. Remove bowl from heat and continue beating until slightly cooled.

To make the ganache:

  1. In a small saucepan heat heavy cream over medium high heat, bring to a boil.
  2. Place chopped semisweet chocolate in heatproof bowl and pour the boiling cream over, leave it for 5 minutes, then stir until its smooth.

Assemble the hearts:

  1. Carefully pipe a small amount of 7 minutes frosting in each heart. Notes: you will have a lot of frosting leftover, actually it’s enough to fill double measure of the cake!!!
  2. Spoon a small amount of ganache on to each heart and spread into a thin layer on the top of the cake. Place cakes into refrigerator for 20 minutes to firm the ganache so you can turn the hearts and cover the other side with the ganache. Pour the ganache over the each heart to covers it evenly and drip to cover the sides over all edges.( If the ganache is too thick to pour it over the heart you can rewarm it!!!)
  3. Return cakes to the refrigerator until the ganache is completely hardened.
  4. Transfer about 1 TBSP of 7 minute frosting in a small bag and cut the corner, pipe “LOVE” swirl on each cooled heart.
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Agos February 7, 2014 - 1:59 am

Yum! I love regular Ding Dongs but these look so much tastier, and cuter too!

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Vera Zecevic February 7, 2014 - 2:09 pm

Thanks Agos 🙂

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Sondra @ Sondra Lyn at Home February 10, 2014 - 8:15 pm

OK… for a chocoholic like myself, these look absolutely heavenly! Thanks for linking at Share it Sunday!! Pinning this!

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Vera Zecevic February 10, 2014 - 8:44 pm

Thanks Sondra:)

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Kaye February 13, 2014 - 1:17 am

is it really 300F ? and not 350F?

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Vera Zecevic February 13, 2014 - 5:52 pm

Hi Kaye,
It should be actually 330 F, I will correct that, thanks

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Jen @ Yummy Healthy Easy February 15, 2014 - 6:41 am

These little hearts look delicious and so so cute! Pinned! So glad to have you over at Saturday Night Fever Recipe Link Party. I hope you’ll link up again this Saturday at 6pm PST!!

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Vera Zecevic February 18, 2014 - 9:49 pm

Thanks Jen:)
I will link up for sure, I love your parties.
See you next Saturday 😉

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Michal August 21, 2014 - 10:33 am

Yummy! so so delicious!

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emily November 9, 2014 - 2:00 am

hi, these look great! is there something else i could do instead of the coffee? like hot cocoa . . . ???

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Vera Zecevic November 9, 2014 - 9:23 pm

Hi Emily, just skip the coffee,it will be OK.

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Renee November 24, 2014 - 4:34 am

For the Ganache it calls for cream, Butter and chocolate. But in the directions to make the Ganache I don’t see where to use the butter. Please help ! Or am I crazy ? I can’t wait to try this recipe !

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Vera Zecevic November 24, 2014 - 2:19 pm

Hi Renee, my mistake, thanks for let me know,combine butter with heavy cream and bring to boil together, then pour over the chocolate.

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Julie Chaney January 25, 2020 - 8:10 pm

Love this idea but I don’t do coffee. What other 1/2 cup liquid can I substitute?

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Vera Z. January 26, 2020 - 2:02 pm

Hi Julie, use hot water.

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This recipe sounds good, but I can’t have buttermilk. Is there something I can use instead???

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Vera Zecevic February 5, 2015 - 5:23 pm

Hi Lisa, if you don’t have buttermilk just add 1/2 teaspoon destilated white vinegar or 1/2 tsp. lemon juice to 1/2 cup regular milk and let it sit 5 minutes then use it like buttermilk for the recipe(it’s homemade substitute for buttermilk).

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Glenna March 6, 2015 - 1:56 pm

Thanks for the great recipe!
I made a few adjustments. I used dark chocolate cocoa.
I also let the filling ingredients come to room temperature. The first few times were flat and warming it up first made a huge difference.
Fantastic job!

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Renee January 11, 2017 - 1:34 am

Is it really only 1 oz semi-sweet chocolate, chopped?

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Vera Zecevic January 13, 2017 - 11:24 am

Hi Renee, yes it’s only 1 oz chocolate because the recipe use cocoa powder, too.

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Eden Passante January 12, 2017 - 9:02 pm

These are EVERYTHING! They look SO good!

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Vera Zecevic January 13, 2017 - 11:20 am

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Shawna Harris February 24, 2017 - 2:44 am

This was amazing!! My husband said to only make this chocolate cake from now on.

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Vera Zecevic February 24, 2017 - 2:18 pm

Thanks Shwana 🙂

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elle February 10, 2019 - 12:28 pm

Just curious if 330 to bake them at is right and not 300 or 350F? I’ve never baked a recipe that called for 330f?
Thank you..

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Vera Z. February 10, 2019 - 5:47 pm

Sorry, I’ve just corrected it. It’s 350 F.

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elle February 11, 2019 - 7:19 pm

Just last question, for the cake is it just one egg? in your directions you wrote “eggs”.

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Luca Finnley February 5, 2021 - 4:35 pm

Heart-shaped and cream-filled chocolate cake is a perfect treat for Valentine’s Day! Valentine’s Day means to express your love in front of your love and gift a Heart Shaped Chocolate Box. I love to eat chocolate and prefer chocolates for Valentine’s gift.

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