Checker board cake #author marathon

Name: Checker board cake #author marathon
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 500 g vanilla cake; 500 g orange cake; 1 large worksurface

this is a type of cake design that when you cut into the cake it looks like a chess board or checkers board

this is a type of cake design that when you cut into the cake it looks like a chess board or checkers board

Ingredients

1

Kindly check out my previous recipes on orange and vanilla cake.put the cake in the fridge for 2 hours to make them easier to work with
2

Level out the cake and cut them into two layers each
3

Take two bowls of different sizes to use as a guide to cut into the cake twice.run your knife round the edges of the bowls cutting it do this for all the cakes
4

They should all look like this when you separate them
5

Apply whip cream on the inner part of all of them to act as glue to stick them together
6

Assemble the cakes alternating the colours
7

Add cream on a board
8

Place the first layer
9

Apply whip cream on the layer sparingly
10

Add the second layer if you started with vanilla outer most layer this should be orange make sure you are alternating on every layer
11

Apply crumb coat on the final cake
12

Put it in the fridge for 10 minutes.in the mean time boil some water and put it in a jug
13

Remove your cake and dip your offset spatula in the hot water wipe off the water and use it to smoothen the cake
14

Put a border with a different colour at the top and bottom and decorate as desired