I want to make a 10" or 12" square cake, with chocolate and vanilla checkerboard pattern on the inside. I can't wrap my head around how to do this! I have the checkerboard pan, but that is only for a round cake pan. How can I do this for a square pan?

TIA!
<Starkie>

I don't see how you could do this without the appropriate pans - and the square checkerboard pan I have seen is only an 8 or 9 inch.....Other than cutting the cakes into strips and staggering them?? Yikes...

I will have to keep an eye on this thread and see what happens. Doug, who is a genius, will probably come by with the perfect solution and I will say "Duh!".

This is so easy! and you don't need any special pans. You just put you two different cake batters in two large ziplock bags and snip a corner off. Then on the first cake you start with say your chocolate, you pipe about a 1-2 inch band of chocolate batter around the outer rim of the cake pan. Then with the yellow, you pipe a 1-2 inch band just on the inside of the chocolate. The you pipe a chocolate band, the yellow. until you fill the pan. Then, on the next layer you start with the opposite color.

I hope you understand, If not I can try to explain it better!

~Mindy

That's a great idea! Does the batter not start seeping into the middle while you are piping in around?

I will definitely have to try this one!

I does flow to the center a little, but if you make it a little bit thicker, with say a pudding mix, it shouldn't be too bad. I have never made one with the special pans, and you probably won't get a "perfect" checker board, but it will definitely look like a checker board as long as you keeps your "stripes" of batter roughly the same size.

~Mindy

I'm curious to know if you made the checkerboard cake...did the technique work? Did you take photos?

i know this post is like 4 yrs later but there is a better way bake two cakes one chocolate n the other vanilla then when they cool down find various square objects about 3 each has to be smaller than the one before . then u cut out the squares from the cakes. after, u interchange them so one layer has the pattern of chocolate/white chocolate white chocolate. do the same to the other one then layer and frost. look at pic for more clear idea

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