Jetts Checkerboard Check It Out Cake Recipe

How to make it

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• Melt chocolate in double boiler over hot water. Set aside to cool.
• Grease & flour 3 - 8-inch cake pans. Line with wax paper circles.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Mix on low for about one minute until blended.
• Add butter and 1 Cup milk. Beat at medium speed for 1 - 1/2 minutes, scraping sides of bowl often.
• In another bowl, combine vanilla, remaining 1/3 cup milk and eggs. Beat lightly. Add to batter in three parts, beating at medium - high speed for 25 seconds after each addition.
• Scrape sides of bowl after each part.
• Divide batter in half.
• Stir melted chocolate into half of the batter and mix well
• Place checkerboard cake divider in pan and hold down.
• Pour darker batter in center and outer rings. Pour lighter batter in middle ring.
• ONLY FILL PANS HALFWAY UP
• Remove divider carefully by lifting straight up. Rinse divider & dry.
• Place divider in next pan and repeat dark-outside, light middle and dark center circle.
• Remove and clean divider as before. Place in 3rd cake pan.
• This time light layer-outside, dark layer-middle and light layer-inside.
• Carefully remove and clean divider as before
• Bake for 15 minutes. Turn baking pans around and bake 10 minutes more.
• Test for doneness with cake tester.
• Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes.
• Remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks.
• After cakes are cool, stack so outside colors alternate.
• Use a thin layer of frosting between layers.
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• If at first you don't succeed, throw it out for the birds!
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