Clever cake idea

[andiesenji]

I came across this site while looking for something else.

I know there are several extremely talented cake bakers on this forum and thought some might find this method of making an interesting cake somewhat useful

alternating concentric cake sections, NOT layers.

[Twitterpated]

This made for an interesting read with quite a few chuckles and LOL's along the way.

[Frozzie]

saw a similar blog in french here except she didnt freeze and just cut out the circles without cutting the edges to pull apart and to join she put a choc spread but you could use jam or anything i imagine and just put it in the fridge for 2 hours for it to set together but honestly think it would be easier to use the checker cake mould but not alternate the colours to make it vertical like this one.  There is one here in oz and you could use it to make both vertical and checker cakes.  One problem though with using hte nutella for eg to glue is you would see it in lines in the vanilla or white part of the cake but works quick without a mould for the checker cake. 

[dede]

Wow the cake looked great. Love the things people come up with. Would be great for a special occasion.

[andiesenji]

I've had both a regular set of 9 inch and a tiered set of the "checkerboard" cake pans (12", 9" & 6") for about forty years and used them often when I was catering.   The latter a professional set that is no longer manufactured.

I just thought this was a different and clever idea without needing specialty pans.  I've got deep cake pans from 3 inch to 18 inch so could easily just bake the "rings" using smaller pans inside the larger ones.   I used to do this to make hollow cake molds to be filled with something else.  (The inner pans have to be weighted.) 

[Frozzie]

certainly andie...sorry didnt mean to take away from the initial idea...certainly is a good idea if you didnt have the pans...here they call them damier moulds but Im sure you already knew that and didnt doubt for a second that you would have one, two or ten lol....Im just all for gagdets and tend to find the simplest way of doing someting rather than the way she did it...quite a funny article though on her blog 

[trudy]

Great article.  Glad you posted it form all of us to have a look.

[KarenH]

The cake does look great - but I would love to know how to do the all-over frosting roses on the cake in the picture!

[Twitterpated]

Really artistic aren't they! Would love to have the ability to turn out something like that.

[Frozzie]

check out youtube and buttercream roses or icing roses....they use two tools...a flower needle and a special piping tip...looks easy enough though (imagine would need a few practices to get it right though)