Check Cake

                                 Check Cake

Ingredients

Butter 12 ounces

Caster sugar 12 ounces

Flour 12 ounces

Eggs 6 separated

Vanilla essence 2 tsp

Baking powder 3 tsp

Cocoa powder 3 tbsp

Milk 4 tbsp

Ingredients for Icing

Butter 6 ounces

Icing sugar 12 ounces

Crushed nuts or crushed biscuits as required

Method

Beat 12 ounces butter and 12 ounces sugar till light and creamy. Add in 1 egg yolk at a time and continue to beat well, add in 2 tsp essence, beat 6 eggs white stiff, fold in the mixture, sieve together 12 ounces flour and 3 tsp baking powder, fold in the butter and egg mixture, also add in the 4 tbsp milk. Make paste with 3 tbsp cocoa powder, 2 tbsp milk and 2 tsp caster sugar, divide cake batter into two, add dissolved cocoa mixture in one and add few drops of yellow color in other mixture. Grease 3 sandwich tins well. In two tins first arrange yellow batter all around on circle, then coco batter, lastly yellow batter. Arrange the third pan with cocoa batter first then yellow batter then again chocolate, bake in a pre heated oven of 180 degree C for 35 minutes. Remove cake on wire rack. Cool completely.

To Assemble

On a cake plate, put the yellow batter cake first, apply with strawberry jam, sandwich the cocoa cake on it, apply jam on it and sandwich the yellow cake on top. Apply the prepared icing on top and sides of the cake. Decorate the sides with crushed biscuits. Also decorate the top in check design.

Method for Butter Icing

Beat 6 ounces butter, gradually adding 12 ounces icing sugar, beat till creamy, when thick use as required.