Chess cake

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 4 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   To prepare a chess cake you need: flour 480 g, sugar 550 g, vegetable oil 300 ml, milk 420 ml, cocoa powder 60 g, baking powder 4.5 tsp, vanilla extract 2 tsp, salt 1 tsp.

2. STEP 2

   

   You need to bake 4 pies - 2 vanilla and 2 chocolate. To do this, coat the inside of the baking pan with vegetable oil and sprinkle with flour. Shake off excess flour and set pans aside for now.

3. STEP 3

   

   Prepare flour.

4. STEP 4

   

   Add baking powder or baking powder to the flour.

5. STEP 5

   

   Add salt.

6. STEP 6

   

   Mix and sift through a sieve.

7. STEP 7

   

   Pour into a bowl for kneading dough.

8. STEP 8

   

   Add sugar.

9. STEP 9

   

   Pour in vegetable oil.

10. STEP 10

    

    Add eggs.

11. STEP 11

    

    Pour in milk.

12. STEP 12

    

    Beat by hand or with a mixer.

13. STEP 13

    

    The dough must be liquid and homogeneous.

14. STEP 14

    

    Divide equally between 2 dishes.

15. STEP 15

    

    Add vanilla extract to the same bowl with the dough. Mix. The dough for 2 vanilla pies is ready.

16. STEP 16

    

    Chocolate cakes require cocoa powder.

17. STEP 17

    

    Sift it through a sieve.

18. STEP 18

    

    Add to the second bowl with the dough.

19. STEP 19

    

    Mix.

20. STEP 20

    

    Pour the dough into the molds.

21. STEP 21

    

    And bake until done.

22. STEP 22

    

    Preferably separately so as not to mix the flavors. But it’s possible to do it all together!

23. STEP 23

    

    Set the finished cake layers aside to cool.

24. STEP 24

    

    In the meantime, you can prepare a template for cutting out the cake parts from the pies. To do this, draw a circle on a piece of paper with a pencil around the baking dish.

25. STEP 25

    

    Use a ruler to mark the middle of the circle and divide the radius into 3 even parts using the same marks. Using a compass, draw smaller circles of marked radii from the middle of the large circle.

26. STEP 26

    

    Fold the paper in half in the middle of the circles.

27. STEP 27

    

    And cut out the shape as in the photo.

28. STEP 28

    

    Prepare cooled pies for cutting into parts - cut off unnecessary tops.

29. STEP 29

    

    Do the following for all pies.

30. STEP 30

    

    Place the template in the middle.

31. STEP 31

    

    Secure with toothpicks, for example.

32. STEP 32

    

    Cut the cake into a circle from the inside

33. STEP 33

    

    and outside the template.

34. STEP 34

    

    These are the details

35. STEP 35

    

    for assembling a chess cake.

36. STEP 36

    

    And one more important detail is to prepare the chocolate butter (glaze) by mixing thoroughly.

37. STEP 37

    

    Now you can start assembling, for example, with a large chocolate circle.

38. STEP 38

    

    Coat the inside with oil.

39. STEP 39

    

    Insert a medium vanilla circle into the large chocolate circle.

40. STEP 40

    

    Coat the inside of the vanilla circle with oil.

41. STEP 41

    

    And insert a chocolate disc into it.

42. STEP 42

    

    The same for all other parts.

43. STEP 43

    

    Like this. The stage of horizontal assembly of parts is completed.

44. STEP 44

    

    For vertical assembly - with the same chocolate butter

45. STEP 45

    

    coat the striped disc evenly.

46. STEP 46

    

    Install the second disk on top.

47. STEP 47

    

    And repeat the same with the remaining disks - coat with oil and place them on top of each other.

48. STEP 48

    

    Now coat the resulting cake on all sides with the same butter!

49. STEP 49

    

    And place the resulting cylinder in the refrigerator to cool for 2 hours.

50. STEP 50

    

    Before serving, decorate the cake with something! Be it chocolate chips, powdered sugar or candied fruits, for example. Enjoy your tea party with the whole company!

Comments on the recipe

Alla

13.09.2023

4.9

The recipe for this chess cake reminded me of another wonderful two-color Zebra cake.

Testomania

13.09.2023

4.9

Although the chess cake was not easy for me, it is now one of my favorites - so unusual and beautiful! But most importantly, this cake is very relevant for my husband and our children, who study at a chess school. First I tried to make the cakes according to the recipe. The dough turned out good, thick, but I didn’t pay attention to the fact that the cakes need to be baked separately in different forms (like any dough with a lot of vegetable oil), so they didn’t work out for me - the vanilla one wasn’t baked well inside, the chocolate one didn’t rise well. Hence the immediate advice - you need to pour the dough into two identical forms at once, you should get four forms in total - two with vanilla dough and two with chocolate. On my second attempt, I saved food and baked biscuits using the classic recipe. As for the cream, our family doesn’t eat store-bought chocolate butter, so I found a wonderful recipe for custard with chocolate for a cake on the website, I used it, it’s a very suitable cream for this cake, I recommend it! Well, the most interesting thing about the chess cake recipe is its assembly, a very exciting activity for those who like to tinker. The most important thing here is a good eye or ruler; you need to cut out the rings so that the width of the strip matches the height of the cake. This will make the cake look neater when cut. For decoration, I used powdered shortbread cookies and added a little cocoa powder to get a dark color. I made the chess pieces from store-bought chocolate bars, melted it in a water bath and poured it into molds. The cake came out wonderful - very tasty and beautiful in cut! By the way, I didn’t soak it in anything; the biscuit rings, greased on all sides, were sufficiently saturated with cream in the refrigerator overnight. Thanks for the interesting recipe!

Ira

13.09.2023

4.6

Inna, what an original cake assembly!!! Simply great! I admire your skill! The idea is great! My father is a chess lover - I will definitely make him such a cake. I think he will be delighted! Thank you so much for this chess cake idea and your hard work!

Julia

13.09.2023

4.6

Inna, you are great! This cake is a bit of a hassle, but the results are worth it. Sometimes in the store I see a chess pie like this, it’s coated with jam. Your cake definitely tastes better with this cream. Thanks for the recipe.