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Checkerboard Cake

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Hi there Friends, do you want to surprise that special someone or you was to be creative with your cake, well here is a tutorial on how to make a Checkered Board cake without a checkerboard pan.


checkerboard cake

 Difficulty: Quite Easy
 Things you'll need: 
  •  Four round cakes -2 vanilla cakes and 2 chocolate cakes (mine was baked with a 6"pan)
  • Buttercream Frosting 
  • Checkerboard Template or a 4" and 2" round cutters (you can get the template from Bakers-corner.com 
  • Palette knife
  • Four toothpicks or skewer 
  • Sharp knife








Procedure: Chill the cakes until firm, this allows it not to crumble when cutting out your shapes. Cut out the template  through the dotted lines and also the centre of the checkerboard template.


 Place the template on one of the cakes and with the skewers or toothpick, secure the checkerboard template through the holes provided on the template, on the cake making sure its well placed.


With a sharp knife carefully trace along the lines, first for the centre and then the outer circle. Carefully lift the cut out pieces aside making sure the don't break(that is why it is a good idea to chill your cake first). Do the same for the other three cakes and set aside. Or alternatively use the 2" cutter to cut out the middle first and the the 4" cutter to cut out the other piece.


With all your pieces out, now assemble the pieces back putting the medium chocolate circle into the big vanilla piece and closing up the centre with the centre piece of the vanilla piece. See Picture below
 When this is completed, stack your cakes, starting with the chocolate cake piece and then ending with the vanilla cake piece. Making sure you layers each one with a coat of buttercream as you stack.

Crumb coat the entire cake with buttercream frosting and pipe any design you want. I did an Ombre petal design on mine. Check out the tutorial in my next post.
checkered cake
And there you have it your checkerboard cake. I hope you found this tutorial helpful. Kindly place your comments and contributions below let me know how yours turned out.



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