Love To Bake Mocha Checkerboard Cake - Caffeine Cakes #3

It was my hubby's birthday. Last Nov.

My married adult man loves chocolate in addition to each year, I'll intend of something chocolate for him. 2011 was Chocolate Enigma Cake, 2010 was German Chocolate Cake. 2009 was..... a failed mango baked cheesecake that he told me to dump afterwards blowing candles because it smelt in addition to tasted similar grass. And earlier that... nothing.

This year, he had already warned me virtually making "pudding" cakes for him. He wants to swallow cake in addition to cream, non jelly or lots of fruits. He wants more cake than anything else. And since I learnt how to brand proper buttercream, he has never failed to limited his liking for it.

And so, I planned to ready a evidently quondam sponge cake alongside buttercream, in addition to that's it. Make it quondam fashioned alongside peanut nibs (You can't uncovering peanut neb cakes nowadays, right? Errr.. perchance it's simply me who is blind tin forcefulness out can't run into them at the bakeries). And to add together to the 'old-fashioness' I'm going to brand a quondam fashioned political party spread for him.

Now, how produce I define quondam fashion. Something no longer inward trend, LOL.

In those days, dorsum inward the 70's in addition to 80's, from the pictures I saw most birthday parties seem to accept a buttercream cake, alongside star pipings, fried chicken (or curry chicken, but kids parties were fried chicken), fried noodles, fruit (either cutting upwards apple, oranges or watermelon, at that spot weren't much imported fruits that time, fifty-fifty Kiwi was unheard of, lemons unseen), agar-agar (especially alongside coconut, tinted pinkish in addition to cutting diagonal), cordial in addition to tidbits (peanut inward shells, poured out Twisties, prawn crackers , added to crowd the table) . And that's what he had every bit good every bit a pocket-sized kid.

Nowadays, it's fondant cakes (or at to the lowest degree fresh cream cakes), western food, pastries in addition to desserts, cake pops, fancy jellies, soft drinks inward cans or bundle drinks, salad, in addition to I certain produce know yous volition intend of much more.

Fried Egg Noodles, Fried Rice Vermicelli, Store bought fried chicken, watermelon basket, kokosnoot agar-agar, orangish cordial in addition to the CAKE!
(Ignore the girl)

Haha.. await at the food, does it brings yous dorsum to all the yonder years?
At to the lowest degree mine.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 buttercream sponge cake tin forcefulness out locomote a fleck evidently inward persuasion every bit I am non proficient inward fancy piping, similar roses or whatever. ~~Ahhh... buttercream roses... in addition to thence OF, perfect for the theme, haha!~~ Then I idea of checkerboard cake in addition to let's brand the cake alongside his favourite flavours, java in addition to chocolate in addition to peanut nibs are perfect alongside coffee.

And did he beloved this cake, yous bet! He kept on saying, "Now this is what I telephone telephone cake," in addition to he loves how the cake looks.
It totally does not await perfect when cut, but to him, it looks special ~~enough~~ and gustation is the most of import element of all. Hahaha.

Mocha Checkerboard Cake

Recipe source: WendyinKK

Meringue
(If yous can’t bake ii pans at once, split this purpose into 2)
vi egg whites (from Grade Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 eggs weighing 65gm shells on)
100gm sugar
½ tsp cream of tartar

Coffee layer
iii egg yolks
50gm sugar
30gm vegetable oil
60gm cake flour
30ml hot water
ii tsp minute java (Nescafe Classic)

Chocolate layer
iii egg yolks
50gm sugar
30gm vegetable oil
45gm all purpose flour
15gm cocoa powder
30ml water
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1.5 portions of Swiss Meringue Buttercream
1 loving cup peanut nibs
Chocolate ganache made from (15gm whipping cream in addition to 15gm nighttime chocolate)

1. Prepare ii 8-inch pans, trouble the base of operations alongside baking paper. Preheat oven at 150(fan)/170C.
2. Prepare coffee layer mixture. Melt java granules inward hot water. Let it cool downwards in addition to combine alongside the repose of the ingredients until smooth. Set aside in addition to produce the meringue.
3. Prepare the chocolate layer mixture. Mix cocoa pulverisation alongside real hot water. Let it cool downwards in addition to combine alongside the repose of the ingredients until smooth. Set aside in addition to produce the meringue.
4. Weigh egg whites in addition to tape the weight. (keep inward hear weight of egg whites + sugar)
5. Beat egg whites until frothy, add together inward cream of tartar in addition to musical rhythm out until soft peaks. Gradually lay inward carbohydrate in addition to musical rhythm out until rigid (hooked peak).
6. Remove one-half the meringue (be accurate past times weighing) in addition to crease into the java mixture.
7. Fold the residue of meringue into the chocolate mixture.
8. Pour both batter into prepared pans in addition to bake for xxx mins.
9. Remove from oven in addition to house on rack. After a brusk while, gently issue the sides in addition to allow cake cool downwards totally inward pan.

Assembly
1. Remove from pan in addition to piece each cake into ii layers.
2. Cut each layer into iii rings.
3. Using buttercream every bit “glue”, paste the rings together, alternating the flavours.
4. Do a crumb coating alongside the buttercream on cake, lay into freezer for 10 mins.
5. Remove from freezer in addition to produce a total frosting on cake.
6. Pat peanut nibs onto side of cake.
7. Pipe ganache onto cake.
8. Pipe stars on rim of cake.
9. Keep at room temp (if it’s going to locomote served soon), or chill inward fridge.

*Take Federal Reserve annotation that at that spot volition locomote an extra layer, I simply ate those up. Or yous tin forcefulness out simply stack roughly other layer, but I’m lazy.