Spring Day = Cake Time

I love watching the Cake Boss, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside, when it’s not giving my baking skills a serious inferiority complex. I watched an episode where I saw Buddy make a checkerboard cake. Which I thought looked incredibly cool. I decided that in honour of spring day I would make a spring theme checkerboard cake. When I think of spring I think of pink and purple so I decided to make my vanilla checkerboard cake pink and purple. For the cake recipe see below (I doubled it for this cake).



With the checkerboard cake you need to cut out round circles, because I didn’t have round cookie cutters I used three different round items that I found around my kitchen and cut around them. When you have cut the circles out you put the purple circles inside the pink ones and the pink circles in the purple ones.

I made butter-cream icing that I put between the layers.



 I also iced the outside of the cake with the icing. I decided to use ready-to-roll icing over the butter-cream icing just to neaten it up a bit. It was my first time using it so needless to say I encountered a few problems.

I got the icing on the cake in the end but there were a few bumps here and there, especially at the foot of the cake so I decided to add a green piece of ready-to-roll icing around the base of the cake to neaten and brighten it up a bit. 

I decorated the cake with a flower and piped the writing on with my butter-cream icing




My Pink and Purple Checkerboard Spring Day Cake- it makes me wish every day was Spring Day!



Vanilla Cake Recipe
260g flour
200g white sugar
12,5 mls baking powder
120g margarine
3 eggs
1/2 cup milk
10 mls vanilla essence

Mix dry ingredients.
Soften margarine, mix into the dry ingredients (can be a bit clumpy).
Add the eggs, mix until smooth.
Add the milk and the vanilla essence, mix until smooth.
Place mixture into greased cake pans.
Bake for 25-30 minutes at 180 c.