Santos, at the Scent of Green Bananas, has come up with the perfect way to decorate a chocolate cake for Valentine's Day: more chocolate. This decadent, mini heart-shaped cake is topped with small individual candies, leaving some wrapped to provide a beautiful color contrast. To recreate the Candy Box Cake at home, you can use any chocolate cake recipe - including a box mix - and frost it with chocolate icing. Don't worry if your icing job is not quite perfect, because once the cake is completely frosted, cover the top with your favorite chocolate candies. If a full sized cake is more than you want to bake, you can apply the same candy-decorating technique to frosted cupcakes.
