2005
09.23
09.23
Watching FoodTV… “Al Roker on the Road”… Making a checkerboard cake (at some retro-dessert place in NYC)…
- Make two round cakes. Vanilla preferred. You want two different colors.
- Slice them horizontally, approximately 1/2 to 1/4 inches thick.
- Now make circles from your round sections. Like donuts. Each circle should have a square cross-section. But be smaller than the last. An 8″ diameter cake? Assuming 1/2″ sections. 8 circles ?
- Now put the circles together, alternating colors/flavors… and gluing them together with frosting (it helps, visually, if the color of the frosting is close to one of the cake colors). (They used a round pan the same diameter as the original round cakes (I think it’s called a ‘spring-form’ pan? Maybe?)… so they built the cake inside the pan.)
- Frost/decorate the outside.
- Enjoy.
