The cake is baked in two parts, so all ingredients are halved except for the cocoa and the vanilla pod.
For the dark dough:
Mix 125 g of soft butter and 100 g of sugar until creamy. Add 3 eggs and stir each one until creamy. Then add 250 g of flour, a pinch of salt, 1/2 pack of baking powder, 40 ml of milk and the 3 tablespoons of baking cocoa. Stir briefly until everything has connected.
Put the dough in the loaf pan and bake at 180 ° C top / bottom heat for about 45 minutes. Then let it cool down.
Cut the cooled cake into slices and use a biscuit cutter to cut out the hearts or, of course, another motif if you wish.
For the light dough:
The production is the same as with the dark dough, only instead of the baking cocoa add the pulp of the vanilla pod.
Pour a thin layer of the dough into the loaf pan, approx. 1 - 2 cm high. Place the hearts close together on the dough layer. Spread the rest of the dough on top so that the hearts are completely covered.
Bake at 180 ° C top / bottom heat for approx. 50 - 60 minutes.
Let cool down and enjoy.
Of course, the leftovers from the cutting out of the heart also taste great.