Jetts Checkerboard Check It Out Cake Recipe

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Jetts Checkerboard Check It Out Cake
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Ingredients:

  • 4 cups (508 g) sifted cake flour
  • 2 cups ( 400 g) sugar
  • 1 tsp (5 g) salt
  • 1-1/3 cups (316 milliliters) milk, room temperature
  • 1 tbsp (15 milliliters) vanilla
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tbsp(15 g) baking powder
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Directions:

  1. Melt chocolate in double boiler over hot water. Set aside to cool.
  2. Grease & flour 3 - 8-inch cake pans. Line with wax paper circles.
  3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  4. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Mix on low for about one minute until blended.
  5. Add butter and 1 Cup milk. Beat at medium speed for 1 - 1/2 minutes, scraping sides of bowl often.
  6. In another bowl, combine vanilla, remaining 1/3 cup milk and eggs. Beat lightly. Add to batter in three parts, beating at medium - high speed for 25 seconds after each addition.
  7. Scrape sides of bowl after each part.
  8. Divide batter in half.
  9. Stir melted chocolate into half of the batter and mix well
  10. Place checkerboard cake divider in pan and hold down.
  11. Pour darker batter in center and outer rings. Pour lighter batter in middle ring.
  12. ONLY FILL PANS HALFWAY UP
  13. Remove divider carefully by lifting straight up. Rinse divider & dry.
  14. Place divider in next pan and repeat dark-outside, light middle and dark center circle.
  15. Remove and clean divider as before. Place in 3rd cake pan.
  16. This time light layer-outside, dark layer-middle and light layer-inside.
  17. Carefully remove and clean divider as before
  18. Bake for 15 minutes. Turn baking pans around and bake 10 minutes more.
  19. Test for doneness with cake tester.
  20. Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes.
  21. Remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks.
  22. After cakes are cool, stack so outside colors alternate.
  23. Use a thin layer of frosting between layers.
  24. *************************************************************************
  25. If at first you don't succeed, throw it out for the birds!
  26. *************************************************************************
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 30.02 Kcal (126 kJ)
Calories from fat 17.9 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 1.99g 3%
Cholesterol 65.69mg 22%
Sodium 64.05mg 3%
Potassium 48.79mg 1%
Total Carbs 0.91g 0%
Sugars 0.21g 1%
Dietary Fiber 0.07g 0%
Protein 2.36g 5%
Iron 0.4mg 2%
Calcium 19mg 2%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 156.97 Kcal (657 kJ)
Calories from fat 93.6 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 10.4g 3%
Cholesterol 343.47mg 22%
Sodium 334.92mg 3%
Potassium 255.09mg 1%
Total Carbs 4.75g 0%
Sugars 1.12g 1%
Dietary Fiber 0.35g 0%
Protein 12.35g 5%
Iron 2.1mg 2%
Calcium 99.2mg 2%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 0.8
    Points
  • 1
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

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