Chocolate and red velvet checker board cake

Name: Chocolate and red velvet checker board cake
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: For the red velvet cake; 2 1/2 cups flour; 3 large eggs; 1/4 cup vegetable oil; 1/2 cup butter; 11/2 cup sugar; 2 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 1/2 cup buttermilk; 2 tsp vanilla; 1/4 cup cocoa powder; 2 tsp red food colour; For Chocolate cake; 2 cups flour; 3/4 cup cocoa powder; 1 1/2 cup sugar; 2 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp baking soda; 3 eggs; 1/4 cup vegetable oil; 1/4 cup butter; 1 1/2 cup butter milk; 1 tsp chocolate or vanilla flavour; For light buttercream frosting; 1 cup powdered sugar; 250 g butter; 1/4 cup powdered milk; 1 tsp vanilla; 1 tsp strawberry flavour

Augie's Confectionery @Augiee01

Sokoto

Checker board cakes are one of my favourites way of presenting cakes that is why I decided to share my recipe in this contest.They can be done in chocolate/vanilla,vanilla/strawberry,you can even use different colours to create multi colour cake using one batter mix.They can be done small,medium or even large depending on the size of your cake layers.
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Augie's Confectionery @Augiee01

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Ingredients

45mins

8 servings

For the red velvet cake
2 1/2 cupsflour
3large eggs
1/4 cupvegetable oil
1/2 cupbutter
11/2 cupsugar
2 tspbaking powder
1 tspbaking soda
1 1/2 cupbuttermilk
2 tspvanilla
1/4 cupcocoa powder
2 tspred food colour
For Chocolate cake
2 cupsflour
3/4 cupcocoa powder
1 1/2 cupsugar
2 tspbaking powder
1 tspbaking soda
3eggs
1/4 cupvegetable oil
1/4 cupbutter
1 1/2 cupbutter milk
1 tspchocolate or vanilla flavour
For light buttercream frosting
1 cuppowdered sugar
250 gbutter
1/4 cuppowdered milk
1 tspvanilla
1 tspstrawberry flavour

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Steps

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1

To make your red velvet cake,measure your flour,butter,baking powder,baking soda and cocoa powder into a bowl and mix together,then set aside
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Then mix your red colour and buttermilk and stir.I used powdered red,you can omitt this step if using liquid colour.
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In a bowl of a stand mixer beat your oil,butter and sugar and vanilla untill fluffy
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Add eggs and beat
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Alternatively add in your butter milk mixture and flour in three addition and beat until smooth.Use a spatula to scrape the side and bottom of your bowl.
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Pour into a greased pan
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For the chocolate cake,measure all your dry ingredients into a bowl.
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In a bowl of a stand mixer, beat your oil,butter and sugar until fluffy
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Add eggs and beat
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Alternatively add in your buttermilk and dry ingredients together and beat. scrape the side and bottom with a spatula and mix until smooth
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Pour into a greased pan and bake for 40 mins or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean
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Allow the cakes to cool in the pan for 10 minutes,transfer unto a wire rack and allow to cool completely.Then refrigerate for 30 mins to firm up to make it easy to cut out our circle rings.
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After refrigeration,trim the top and divide each cake into 2 layers.
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I baked a 6 inch cake,so I used a circle cutter of 4 and 2 inches in diameter to cut out 3 rings from each layer,you can use bowls of thesame dimension.
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To assemble,place one of the large chocolate rings,then followed by red velvet and then chocolate.
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Do thesame for the red velvet
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To make my light buttercream frosting,I added all my ingredients together into a bowl and used my hand mixer to mix until creamy.
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Lay the first layer with the largest chocolate ring and spread with buttercream,whipped cream or any frosting of your choice,then followed by the layer with the large red velvet ring.
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Repeat the process with the remaining 2 layers.You can also spread frosting on the sides and top and decorate with flowers,sprinkles,ribbon or cake crumb.Then chill in the fridge before cutting and serving
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Serve with any drink of your choice