Checkerboard Cake

When i wanted to prepare a marvellous birthday cake to my daughter at home itself, the first cake came to my mind is this checkerboard cake. I know its really worth to try this cake eventhough this cake is super time consuming, i spend almost a day to bake a cake,making a fondant,a ganache and assembling finally the cake. But watelse a mom want to prepare for her lovely sweet gal. I started making earlier in the morning itself a vanilla yogurt cake with a round pan and used the same pan for making the chocolate yogurt cake.

I checked here to make sure before assembling the cake, but since i dont have any specific pan or utensils to cut the cake, i went for a paper cutting. I prepared three thick paper circles and used them for slicing my cake. Prepared a quick chocolate ganache for sealing the cake together and covered the cake completely with a simple and easy breezy fondant prepared with marshmallows and confectioner's sugar. I'll be posting soon how i prepared the fondant, am sure this will be definitely helpful to most of us.  Coming to this checkerboard cake, they came out simply awesome, needless to say more the pictures itself speaks a lot na. You can make this cake easily at home without the specific checkerboard cake pan, just use your usual cake pans and slice them using a simple paper cuttings. Worth to try especially for celebrating a birthday or an anniversary.

Vanilla Yogurt Cake:
1cup Yogurt
2cups Sugar
3cups All purpose flour
3nos Eggs
1cup Oil
1tsp Baking powder
1tsp Vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 350F. Sieve both the flour and baking powder and keep aside..

Take the eggs, sugar in a bowl and beat everything until they turns soft, now add the vanilla sugar, oil and yogurt to the sugar-egg mixture and beat again everything for a while.

Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mix gently with a spatula until everything get well mixed.

Pour this batter into a greased baking pan and bake for 20-25minutes in middle rack until a skewer inserted comes out clean.Keep aside let the cool completely.

Chocolate Yogurt Cake:
1cup Yogurt
2cups Sugar
3cups All purpose flour
3nos Eggs
1cup Oil
1tsp Baking powder
1cup Chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350F, sieve the flour and baking powder and keep aside.

Take the eggs and sugar in a bowl,beat everything until the mixture turns smooth, add the oil,yogurt to this mixture and beat again for few more minutes.

Meanwhile take the chocolate chips and a tablespoon of water in a microwave safe bowl and heat for 2-3minutes in a microwave oven and mix it with well to get a silky chocolate sauce

Add the melted chocolate, flour to the wet ingredients and mix gently with a spatula until everything gets well mixed.

Pour this batter into a greased baking pan and bake for 20-25 minutes in middle rack until a skewer inserted comes out clean..


Chocolate Ganache:
1cup Chocolate chips
1/2cup Low fat cream

Take the chocolate chips and cream in a vessel,heat it until the chocolate gets well melted..mix well and let them sit in fridge for an hour.

Assembling the checkerboard Cake:

2 nos Thick paper

Cut the thick paper as large,medium and small sized circles according to the size of your baked cake.Slice the top of the baked cakes to equalize them.Using a sharp knife and the paper cutting, cut the cake as three circles.

Arrange the cake as shown in picture 2 and spread the prepared ganache to seal one over an another slice. I went for two layered checkerboard cake with two cakes.

Frost your cake with a buttercream frosting or simply use a fondant to make them more beautiful.

You can prepare many layers as you wish to make your cake taller as you want.

You can use food colours to make this cake more colourful and catchy.

This cake is my first trial and they came out simply awesome.