Okay ladies, I remember someone made one for her husband's birthday. She said that it came out rectangles instead. I can't remember who made it, but I am looking for advise. I plan on making one tomorrow to take to the inlaws on sunday. Do you have any words of wisdom??? TIA
It was me Kenda and they turned out to be triangles. hahaha My words of advice... follow the directions of the "checkerboard cake" box. It said to add chocolate to the yellow cake batter. That was my problem. I used yellow cake mix AND chocolate cake mix and they rise at different levels while baking. I knew this duh, but it didn't occur to me when I was doing the cake. If you turn some of the yellow cake mix chocolate then they should rise at the same levels and turn out pretty close to square.
Kenda, We do a version of a "checkerboard" cake at work. We take a 8" yellow cake layer, and a 8" chocolate cake layer, stack them together, with a little icing in between the layers. to hold them together. Then we get an empty can, like a soup can... it's just about the right size. You cut off both ends and watch for sharp edges so you wont cut yourself. You insert the can into the middle of the cake. It helps to kind of twist the can while you are pressing down, so it wont mash down the cake too much. Pull it back up and out, and you want to swap the layers in the can back into the cake, so you have the small chocolate circle in the middle of the yellow cake, and vice versa with the small yellow circle in the middle of the chocolate cake. All you do is turn the can upside down, and gently push it back into the cake. Sometimes this works better if the cake layers are frozen..you will have less crumbs, and less damage to the cake, plus it is easier to handle. I would think you can use a 9" layer if you wanted, and use a bigger can. Also you could do a three layer cake if you wanted too. I have never made one at home before. I have seen those pans in stores that you can buy to make them. HTH! Good luck!
Linda
hmmmmm I was planning on using white cake mix and tinting the batter green/red. That should work, shouldn't it? I was thinking it was you Lynn that had made it but I've slept a time or two.......I'll let you know how it turns out.
I like the idea that you talk about. I purchased the checkerboard cake kit at Michael's (with my 40% off coupon of course!). The boys thought I could make a green and red cake with chocolate frosting. I'm going to cross my fingers and give it a whirl tomorrow. 'Course I won't know how it turns out until we cut into it Sunday evening. Wish me luck!
Just make sure you use enough food-colouring to produce the right colours... I tried to make a 'red, white and blue' cake for July 4th with white cake, swirls of blue cake batter and strawberry jam, but it came out a rather unappetising pale green mess! It still tasted good though :)
LOL I don't know how it will look when cut but it looked pretty good when I put the cake together. It's going with DH tomorrow to his family's gathering. I asked him to take a picture of it when it's cut. I used white frosting and red & green edible glitter.
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