Chess board cake

                              Chess board cake

When I saw this in you tube I decided to try ti in my home.This is my first trial and didn't come perfect too.But I cant wait for the next trial to post this recipe.While searching I saw the checker board cake prepared by Athira sooraj (cheenachatty.com),where she used chocolate ganache and white chocolate decoration .It is a delicious cake with two different flavours.

Ingredients:

For vanilla sponge cake:

Maida:1 cup
Powdered sugar:1 cup
Butter:1cup
Milk:1 tblspn
Egg:2
Vanilla essence:1/2 tspn
Baking powder:1/2tspn
Baking soda:A pinch

For chocolate sponge cake:

Maida 3/4 cup
Cocoa powder:1/4 cup
Powdered sugar:1 cup
Butter :1 cup
Egg:2
Milk:1tblspn
Baking powder:1/2tspn
Baking soda:A pinch
Vanilla essence:1/4tspn

For butter cream frosting:

Butter:100gm
Powdered sugar:100 gram
Cocoa powder:4 tblspn
Milk :2tblspn
Amul fresh cream :1 tblspn

Method:

Vanilla sponge:

• Sieve maida baking soda and baking powder together.Keep aside
• Beat egg in a mixer.Mix it well.
• Add powdered sugar and beat it again
• Add vanilla essence.
• Add milk.
• Add butter and mix it well.
• Now add sieved flour to the egg mixture.
• Mix it well.
• Grease a cake tin with butter and pour the mixture in to the cake tin.
• Bake it in 180 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.Oven should be preheated in 180 degrees.
• Check it with a tooth pick by inserting it in the centre of the cake. If it comes out clean cake is ready.

Chocolate sponge:

• Sieve maida,baking soda,baking powder and cocoa powder together.Keep aside.
• Beat egg in a mixer.
• Add powdered sugar,butter,milk and vanilla essence to the egg and mix it well.
• Now add sieved flour to the egg mixture.Mix it well
• Pre heat the oven in 180 degrees.
• Pour the batter in to a butter greased cake tin.
• Bake it for 25 to 30 minutes.
• Check it with a tooth pick by inserting it in the centre of the cake.If it comes out clean cake is ready.

Frosting:

• In a bowl beat the butter until it is fluffy.
• Add sugar and mix it well.
• Add cocoa powder,fresh cream and milk.Mix it well.

Assembling of cakes:

• Let the cakes cool.
• Cut both the caked horizontally in almost same size.Now you have 4 cake discs.2 chocolate and 2 vanilla.
• Find 2 round shaped moulds to cut the cake.(I used one round tiffin box and one glass.)
• Carefully keep the large mould(tiffin box)in the centre of the one cake disc.
• Cut it in to a circle by using a knife.
• Now use small mould (glass) and make another circle in the middle of the remaining portion.
• Use the same method for all the cake disc.
• Now totally you have 12 round pieces of cakes.
• Take a plate with butter paper.
• First arrange a chocolate round.(big one)
• Inside the chocolate round arrange vanilla round(medium)
• Arrange small chocolate ring in the middle.
• Apply a thin layer of frosting to fix the three rings.
• Now first outer layer should be vanilla.
• Then medium chocolate ring.
• Arrange small vanilla ring in the centre.
• Apply thin layer of frosting.
• Likewise finish all the rings by arranging alternatively.
• Apply frosting all over the cake.
• Keep it in fridge before cut it in to piece(I skipped this step so I lost the perfection also...)

sending this recipe totaste of the tropics by fullscoop and eastwestrealm