When you read this, St Valentine’s day has just passed ot maybe it’s about to arrive. In any case, everyday is good for a romantic dinner, preferably cooked by you. And here is my help for you for the dessert: a quick cake for St Valentine.

For the sponge:
160gr flour, sifted
175gr sugar
30gr cocoa, sifted
5 eggs

For the filling:
300ml double cream
1 cup of coffee
40gr icing sugar
100gr milk chocolate

One word before you start: this cake will be great if you have prepared a whole dinner from scratch and you don’t have the energies or simply the time to make an elaborate dessert. But, if the dessert itself is the main thing for your St Valentine’s day then I would suggest the most romantic cake and go for an Italian tiramisu recipe. Here is an easy tiramisu you can try. And now the directions for the cake….
First thing for every sponge you’ll ever make: mix the eggs with the sugar until you get a foamy and smooth cream (in some recipes you will have to separate the yolks from the whites, beat the first with sugar, the latter until firm and then join them together…. But not in this case), then add flour and cocoa. Preheat the oven at 180ºC, line a cake tin (if you have a heart-shaped one that would be really cool) with oven paper (or grease it and dust it with flour), then pour the mix in and bake for half an hour (or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean). Once it’s done, let it cool.
In the meantime, prepare the filing: mix the cream and the coffee together, then put it in the fridge. When the cake has cooled to room temperature, whip the cream with the icing sugar. Cut the sponge into two discs, use one third of the cream to fill the middle and the rest to cover the cake.