Checkerboard cake

Name: Checkerboard cake
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 500 g cake flour/all purpose; 10 g baking powder; 230 g sugar; 200 ml vegetable oil; 30 g cocoa; 4 eggs; Drops vanilla essence; 1 1/2 cup Buttermilk; 1/2 cup hot brewed coffee

Belinda @12Bellafoodoven

Uthiru, 87

#AuthorMarathon
#Christmasbakingcontest
I wanted to make cake for christmas and this is what i came up with.

Belinda @12Bellafoodoven

Uthiru, 87

#AuthorMarathon
#Christmasbakingcontest
I wanted to make cake for christmas and this is what i came up with.

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Ingredients

500 gcake flour/all purpose
10 gbaking powder
230 gsugar
200 mlvegetable oil
30 gcocoa
4eggs
Dropsvanilla essence
1 1/2 cupButtermilk
1/2 cuphot brewed coffee

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Steps

1

Beat the eggs,vanilla essence and sugar. Add the vegetable oil
2

Fold in half of the sifted flour and baking powder.
3

Add the buttermilk and the remaining flour.
4

Add the buttermilk little by little until well combined.
5

Divide the batter into two and sift cocoa into one and add hot coffee
6

Fold the cocoa batter until well combined.
7

Pour both batter in 2 lined baking tins.
8

Bake in a 160 degrees preheated oven for 1hr or until a skewer inserted in comes out clean.
9

Place in a rack and let cool
10

Divide the cake into two even slices.
11

Cut a small circle and a bigger circle. I used cookie cutter and a 1kg margarine lid.
12

Place them together alternating between vanilla and chocolate cake
13

Spread the whipping cream and stack them one after another.
14

Complete by applying the rest of the whipping cream on the entire cake.
15

Decorate as desired.