Jetts Checkerboard Check It Out Cake |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 30 Minutes |
Ready In: 30 Minutes Servings: 10 |
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This recipe adapted from a recipe from NORPRO, maker of the checkerboard pan. My mother gave me the cake pan a long time ago. I see she paid $1.99 ...From what I hear she got a deal!!! Ingredients:
3 ounces(85 grams) baking (unsweetened) chocolate |
4 cups (508 grams) sifted cake flour |
2 cups ( 400 grams) sugar |
1 teaspoon (5 grams) salt |
1-1/3 cups (316 milliliters) milk, room temperature |
1 cup (225 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature |
1 tablespoon (15 milliliters) vanilla |
4 eggs |
2 tablespoons(15 grams) 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.
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25. If at first you don't succeed, throw it out for the birds!
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