Chess Cake with Icing

To bake a beautiful cake, it’s not at all necessary to make complex decorative accent on glaze. This cake is a prime example. is he collected from chocolate and vanilla cakes in a special order, so that on the cut of the cake we get a spectacular chess pattern. And the icing on the contrary, it will be a simple cream color. She must not outwardly distract from the main pattern, although it will be just to taste fantastic, perfect with chocolate and vanilla cakes. Coat the layers and the upper cake with it, leaving the sides clean, so that a contrasting striped pattern around the cake is visible.

Recipe author – Nancy Fuller

Time: 2 час. Difficulty: Easy Servings: 10 – 12 The recipes use volumetric containers of 1 glass (st.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml. 1/2 cup (st.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cup (st.) – 60 ml 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teaspoon (tsp) – 5 ml

Ingredients for the recipe:

Vanilla and Chocolate Cakes

• 3 tbsp. premium flour and optionally for dusting molds
• 2 tbsp. granulated sugar
• 220 gr softened butter
• 5 large eggs
• 2 tbsp. l baking powder
• 2 tsp coarse salt
• 2 tbsp. whole milk
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 0.5 tbsp. cocoa powder
• 0.5 tbsp. hot water
• Special equipment: round cutting for cookies 14 cm in diameter, round cutting for cookies with a diameter of 6 cm.

Vanilla glaze

• 2.5 tbsp. powdered sugar
• 220 gr softened butter
• 2 tbsp. l fat cream
• 1 vanilla pod, cut in half, scrape seeds

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Recipe preparation:

1. Preheat the oven to 175 ° C. Prepare 4 cake tins 22 cm in diameter, sprinkled with a cooking spray and sprinkled flour.
2. In a bowl of a stationary mixer with whisk nozzles, mix granulated sugar and butter and beat for about 2 minutes. Add one egg, whisking after each. Add baking powder, salt and 1 tbsp. flour and keep whisking.
3. Then pour in the milk and pour the remaining 2 tbsp. flour alternating their. Add vanilla extract and beat for another 1 minute. Spill half the dough in 2 prepared cake tins, leaving another half the dough for chocolate cakes.
4. To make chocolate dough, add cocoa and hot water in a small bowl and mix to make a paste. Add chocolate paste into the remaining dough and mix until smooth consistency. Pour the chocolate dough into the remaining 2 forms for cakes.
5. Put all 4 forms in the oven and bake until a toothpick, inserted into the center of each cake, will not come out clean, 30 – 35 minutes. Cool the cakes on the wire rack for 30 minutes.
6. For the preparation of vanilla glaze in a bowl stationary mixer with whisk attachment mix the powdered sugar and butter and beat at low speed for 1 minute, and then increase the speed to medium and beat until lush another 3 minutes. Add fat cream and vanilla seeds and continue beat another 1 minute.
7. Collect a chess cake by cutting from each cake with by cutting a ring with a diameter of 14 cm. Put in the center of the circle 14 see cutting down with a diameter of 6 cm. and cut another circle. Same repeat with the other 3 cakes (you get 2 rings and 1 circle for each cake).
8. For the first layer, put the largest yellow ring on the cake stand. Inside it, put the second largest chocolate ring. Put a small one inside the chocolate ring yellow circle. Top with an even layer of vanilla glaze.
9. For the second layer, put the biggest chocolate a ring on top of the first layer of cake coated with icing. Put the second largest yellow ring inside the chocolate ring, then put a small chocolate circle inside the yellow ring. From above apply an even layer of vanilla glaze.
10. Assemble the third and fourth layers in the same way as the first and the second, respectively. Lubricate the cake evenly. glaze. We recommend preparing carrot cake for tea.