Anyone Here Ever Make a Checkerboard Cake.... [View all]
....I found a complete, brand new, checkerboard cake set, well constructed, from Williams-Sonoma, at my local thrift store. Normally sells for $27, the tags were still on the box, I got it for $5. So, naturally, I had to try making a checkerboard cake yesterday. My mom used to make one, about once a year. I can see why she didn't do it more often. What a frustrating hair puller that was!
To say it didn't look anything like a checkerboard is an understatement, more like the markings on a Pinto horse! The taste is good, I used chocolate and yellow cake, and the frosting is great....although more milk chocolate than fudge. But no one would mistake it for a checkerboard. I make cakes about once or twice a year...bread baking is more my forte. Plus the damn thing kept sliding around while I was trying to frost it...all three layers. I even tried using chopsticks to anchor it, to no avail.
Anyone have any tips or suggestions on making a checkerboard cake that actually looks like a checkerboard?! You know, for when I actually try this again, in the next decade??
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