Troubleshooting Swirled Checkerboard Cake: Tips from Kristi

[KRISTI'SCOOKING]

have a guest who purchased and nmade the checkboard cake but says everytime she makes it it comes out swirled. Does anyone know why or have any tipe? kristi

 

[Dawn4]

I'm just interested in what the checkboard cake is. I don't think I've ever seen it.

 

[KellyTheChef]

Spray the dividers with Pam. CLEAN them in between uses. No, that's not a smart comment! Fill one pan, lift STRAIGHT out. Clean divider and re-spray with Pam. Fill next pan...and so on.

Our set of 3 cake pans comes with a plastic insert. If you fill the wells with different colors (Example one cake with colors White-Pink-White...and the other two with colors Pink-White-Pink. Then, stack them alternately and when you cut into it...voila! Checkerboard pattern!)

You can also do all three cakes the same color pattern and have a Candy Corn looking slice....white in center...yellow...orange...

HTH

 

[chefjeanine]

It takes two boxes of mix to make this cake. If she wants to have two flavors (chocolate and yellow), she needs to prepare both mixes in the same way.

So, choose one and use the amount of oil, water and eggs from that box in both mixes. This helps keep the batter of a relatively similar consistency so it's not as likely to run together.

As Kelly said, you must spray the inserts before using and clean in-between assembling each layer. It is tedious (so I rarely make one) but it turns out really neat.

The candycorn cake is COOL!

 

[chefann]

Another key thing to remember is to lift the divider straight up when pulling it out of the batter. If you bring it up at an angle, the batters will mix, blurring the line between them.

 

[finley1991]

Also, DON'T use pam with flour! The rings will separate and the cake will fall apart. Jut use regular Pam.

 

[KellyTheChef]

Also, DON'T use pam with flour! The rings will separate and the cake will fall apart. Jut use regular Pam.

Colleen~

You say this with such authority....care to explain?!?! LOL

:angel:

 

[Teresa Lynn]

tell her to add 1/4 cup of flour to each mix and if she is tinting the batter to use Wilton color paste (in a small jar at craft stores or Walmart in the cake decorating aisle)
I only use Duncan Hines and make these all the time and never had a problem.

 

[KRISTI'SCOOKING]

Thank you everyone! Kristi

 

[finley1991]

Colleen~

You say this with such authority....care to explain?!?! LOL

:angel:

hee hee... been there done, that!!! Actually I heard that at conference when they announced the set and when I went to make the cake... I only had pam with flour! Typical me... "Oh, I'm SURE it will work!!!!" Yup... when the cakes came out of the pan, I had 9 rings of cake! Would have been great had I been making a cake to look like saturn or an atom!!!!!

 

[Teresa Lynn]

I also use 2 EAD to fill the rings so much easier than the scoops

 

[finley1991]

Yes.. using the scoops makes such a mess! I pour my batter into big plastic bags and clip with a twixit, then clip the corner and I'm good to go!