Cake "Chess" - the perfect dessert for any celebration

Cake is the main decoration of any holiday. Of course, you can order or purchase a dessert for a family celebration in a confectioner's shop. But it's easy to cook by yourself. So it will be cheaper, more useful and tasty!

Do you want to surprise your family and friends? Then prepare for them an original and spectacular cake "Chess". In this article, we offer several recipes for the original delicacy.

Biscuit for cakes

It's very easy to cook a chess cake. It is much more difficult to resist not to cut off a piece from it. It is necessary to be patient and wait, because it takes time to impregnate the biscuit. It is better to bake a dessert on the eve of a holiday on the evening, put it in the fridge, and the next day already enjoy this delicious treat.

So, let's get started. We start with the preparation of the cake. For a white biscuit, take 3 eggs and break them into a deep bowl. Separate the proteins from the yolks do not need! We pour a little salt to the eggs and beat the mixer first on small, and then at high speed. Gradually add 100 grams of sugar (4 tablespoons). Beat for at least 5 minutes. You should have a magnificent mass. Here we pour a teaspoon of baking powder and add in small portions 100 grams of sifted flour. Once again, everything is quickly whipped. The dough is ready!

Now take a round shape, lining it with parchment or grease the bottom with vegetable oil and sprinkle with flour. Pour the dough, level with a spatula and bake in a preheated to 200 degrees oven for about half an hour. We also prepare a chocolate cake, but we already take 80 grams of flour. In the dough, add two tablespoons of cocoa. Bake and let cool completely. If the cake "Chess" is prepared for a large company, you can bake not one cake of each color, but two.

Now take the cooled biscuit, put on it a plate of smaller diameter and cut out the contour. It turned out two layers. On the second circle of a biscuit, we put a plate even smaller and cut out. From one cake in the end should be three circles: two with a hole and one solid. This process we do with all the cakes. Then we add them in a staggered order, alternating with dark and light circles.

Impregnation and cream

To impregnate the cakes will need 50 milliliters of water and a spoonful of alcohol. Any other liquids (tea, liqueur) it is better not to take, so that the color of the dough does not change. Preparing the cream. To do this, beat up 450 grams of softened butter, add 720 milliliters of condensed milk to it. The resulting mass is thoroughly mixed.

Building a cake

We put on impregnation cakes impregnation and we give a little to lie off. Now you can proceed with the assembly. Each cake, consisting of white and dark circles, is well smeared with cream and cover the next, alternating colors. Thus, we lay all the layers. Top and sides carefully cover with cream. Decorate the cake in the form of a chessboard can be finished chocolate glaze in drops, laying it in a circle and in the center. Leave the dessert for several hours in the fridge so that it is well soaked in cream.

Cake in the form of a chessboard (without baking)

Those who are afraid to bake a biscuit, you can advise preparing a cake "Chess board" of cookies. The recipe will need the following ingredients:

• Sweet cookies - 200 grams;
• Cottage cheese of any fat content - 450 grams;
• Butter - 100 grams;
• Fatty cream - 450 grams;
• Powder - 100 grams;
• Gelatin - 20 grams;
• Milk - 50 grams;
• Tile of milk chocolate;
• Pinch of vanillin.

First chop the cookies finely and mix it with butter at room temperature. Take the detachable form and distribute in it an equal layer the resulting basis for the future culinary masterpiece. Vigorously whisk the creamer with a mixer. Pour gelatin with water. While he is swelling, prepare the cream.

In the syringe, rubbed through a sieve, pour the sifted sugar powder, cream and a pinch of vanillin. Stir. Swell the gelatin on the stove, remove from heat, add milk and curd mixture. Mix everything thoroughly and divide the mass into two parts. Melt on a water bath ¾ of a piece of chocolate bar, refrigerate and add to one of the deferred parts of the cream. Prepare two confectionery bags and fill one with a dark mass, and the other with white.

At this stage, you can start assembling the dessert. On the basis of the cookie, put a little white cream around the circle, then circle it with a layer of dark curd mass and so on to the end. Make a few such layers like a chessboard. Remove the dessert in the fridge and leave it to cool the cream. Serve with the remaining grated chocolate. You can even not doubt - this is a delicious and delicate cake "Chess"!

Lovers of baking with cherry

Desserts with cherry blossom like many, so you can try to bake with this delicious berry cake "Chess". Cooking it is easy.

Two glasses of ground black cherry pour the same amount of hot milk, we cool it and put it into a deep bowl. Here we pour two cups of sugar, break six eggs, add a pack of butter, baking powder, three glasses of flour. All mixed and divided into three parts, bake 3 cakes. For cream, beat the sour cream with sugar and cover with this mass of 2 cooled layers. The third cake is cut into squares and stacked on top in a staggered order. The places intended for white figures are filled with sour cream and sugar.

Home baking is easy

Nothing lifts the mood as fragrant and delicious desserts prepared with their own hands. With home baking, no purchase can be compared!

So why did it become so? Especially since it takes very little time to prepare a homemade delicacy. It is important only to follow the recipe exactly, then everything will necessarily turn out. It will not be difficult for you to cook a chess cake. The photos presented in the article will certainly help to form an idea of dessert.