Valentine's day cake (pound cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting)

Happy Valentine's Day wishes to all you there

Ingredients:

for pound cake:

Maida / AP flour - 2cups
Butter - 1/2cup(1 stick)
Sugar - 2cups(divided)
Eggs - 4
Butter milk - 1cup
Vanilla - 1tsp
Baking soda - 1/4tsp

For chocolate cream cheese icing:

Chocolate chips - 1 cup(divided)
Cream cheese - 1Block
Butter - 6tbs(divided)
Sugar - 1cup
Vanilla - 1tsp
Milk - about 1/2 cup

for cake -

• Pre heat oven to 350 .
• Grease and dust  two  8 / 9 inch round cake pans .
• Cream 4 tbs butter and 11/2cups of sugar . When is it is fluffy add eggs to the butter mixture and wisk it until it turns it is all mixed or light yellow colour . Add Vanilla , butter milk and mix it well .

• In a saperate bowl , add flour , baking soda and mix well.
• Now add flour mixture to the butter mixtur . Add little by little so that no lumps are formed . wisk until the flour is well incorperated into the butter mixture .(if the batter is too thick , add little milk ) Now the batter is ready .

• Equally distribute the batter into 2 pan and bake it for 35 - 40 minutes or until cake is bakked .

• Once they are done , take out of the oven and cool completely .

Now for the frosting -

• Bring cream cheese and and butter to room temperature .
• Ground sugar to fine powder .
• Wisk cream cheese and butter until they are completely incorperated .

• Add  powdered sugar and mix it well .

• In  microwave safe bowl , add 1/2 cup of chocolate chips and 2tbs milk , 1tbs of butter and microwave it for 30 secs . Now wisk it until all the chocolate and milk is mixed will . Add it to the butter and cheese mixture.

• Add vanilla to it and mix again .

• If the frosting is too thick add milk to it by wisking(add 1tbs of milk at a time) .
• let the frosting stay in room temepreature until cakes are cooled .

for assembling cake and frosting -

• Boil 1/2 cup of sugar with 1 cup of water .

• Take the cooled cakes , poke some holes on both sides .

• Now brush generously  the boiled water and sugar mixture on both sides .

• To the cake base , apply little bit of frosting (so that cake dosent slide when you move) .

• Now take 1 layer and put it upside down and 1/3 of the frosting and spread it through out .

• Now place another layer on it as it is  (not upside down) and add another 1/3 of frosting and spread it .
• Now frost the sides with remaining 1/3 of frosting .

• Take another 1/2 cup of chocolate chips , 1tbs butter , 1/4 cup of  milk and microwave it for 30 secs and wisk it well . Keep it in fritz and let it cool completely .Pour this cooles chocolate mixture on top of the frosted cake . Make sure all the cake is covered with this cocolate mixture.

• keep it in fritz so that chocolate is cooled .
• Now cake is ready .

for extra decoration -

• for further decoration , I took some of the cream cheese frosting before adding chocolate and added orange color to it and put little hearts .

• For chocolate heat design , i took some of the melted chocolate and put the little chocolate hearts  color .
• For cake base , i cut some cardboard piece and lined it with foil .