While stirring the curd mass, pour it there in a thin stream. Add the cream last, stirring gently to keep the soufflé airy.
13. Place the whole half of the cake in a mold, pour a little soufflé.
14. From above, spread out the biscuit rings through one.
15. Between the rings and on top of them, pour the soufflé. Lay the remaining set of rings in a checkerboard pattern from the first layer.
16. Pour all the soufflé. Put the cake in the refrigerator.
17. Lay paper strips on the frozen surface with a lattice.
18. Sprinkle cocoa through a sieve.
19. Carefully remove the stencil.
Cover the brown squares with clean stripes and sprinkle with cocoa again.
20. Remove the stencil strips - you get a chessboard.
Not only from above, but also in the cut, the biscuit cake looks like a chessboard. The alternating brown and white squares are eye-catching.

Cake is the main decoration of any holiday. Of course, you can order or purchase a dessert for a family celebration in a pastry shop. But it's easy to make your own. It will be cheaper, healthier and tastier!

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

Biscuit for cakes

Cooking a chess cake is very simple. Much harder to resist cutting off a piece of it. You should be patient and wait, because it takes time to soak the biscuit. It is better to bake a dessert the evening before the holiday, put it in the refrigerator, and enjoy this delicious treat the next day.

So let's get started. We start with the preparation of cakes. For a white biscuit, take 3 eggs and break them into a deep bowl. You don't need to separate the whites from the yolks! Pour a little salt into the eggs and beat with a mixer, first at low and then at high speeds. Gradually add 100 grams of sugar (4 tablespoons). Whisk for at least 5 minutes. You should get a lush mass. Pour a teaspoon of baking powder here and add 100 grams of sifted flour in small portions. Once again, whisk everything quickly. The dough is ready!

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

Now we take a cooled biscuit, put a plate of smaller diameter on it and cut it out along the contour. It turned out two layers. On the second circle of biscuit we put a plate even smaller and cut it out. From one cake, you should end up with three circles: two with a hole and one solid. We do this process with all cakes. Then we fold them in a checkerboard pattern, alternating dark and light circles.

Impregnation and cream

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

Cake assembly

We apply it to the impregnation and let it rest a little. Now you can start assembling. Each cake, consisting of white and dark circles, is well smeared with cream and covered with the next one, alternating colors. Thus, we lay all the layers. The top and sides are carefully smeared with cream. You can decorate the cake in the form of ready-made chocolate icing in drops, laying it in a circle and in the center. Leave the dessert for several hours in the refrigerator so that it is well saturated with cream.

Cake in the form (without baking)

Those who are afraid of baking a biscuit can be advised to make a Chessboard cake from cookies. For the recipe you will need the following ingredients:

• sweet cookies - 200 grams;
• cottage cheese of any fat content - 450 grams;
• butter - 100 grams;
• fat cream - 450 grams;
• powder - 100 grams;
• gelatin - 20 grams;
• milk - 50 grams;
• milk chocolate bar;
• a pinch of vanilla.

First, finely crumble the cookies and mix them with room temperature butter. Take a detachable form and evenly distribute the resulting base for the future culinary masterpiece in it. Whip the cream vigorously with a mixer. Pour gelatin with water. While it swells, start preparing the cream.

Pour the sifted icing sugar, cream and a pinch of vanillin into the cottage cheese mashed through a sieve. Stir. Dissolve the swollen gelatin on the stove, remove from heat, add milk and curd mixture. Mix everything thoroughly and divide the mass into two parts. Melt ¾ of the chocolate bar in a water bath, cool and add to one of the reserved parts of the cream. Prepare two and fill one of them with a dark mass, and the second with white.

At this stage, you can start assembling the dessert. Put a little white cream in a circle on the cookie base, then circle it with a layer of dark curd mass and so on until the end. Make several such layers like a chessboard. Put the dessert in the refrigerator and leave until the cream hardens. Serve sprinkled with the remaining grated chocolate. You can not even doubt - this is a very tasty and delicate "Chess" cake!

For lovers of baking with bird cherry

Many people like desserts with bird cherry, so you can try to bake a Chess cake with this delicious berry. Preparing it is easy.

Pour two glasses of ground bird cherry with the same amount of hot milk, cool and transfer to a deep bowl. Pour two cups of sugar here, break six eggs, add a pack of butter, baking powder, three cups of flour. We mix everything and divide into three parts, bake 3 cakes. For cream, beat sour cream with sugar and cover 2 cooled layers with this mass. We cut the third cake into squares and lay it on top in a checkerboard pattern. Places intended for white pieces are filled with sour cream with sugar.

Home baking made easy

Nothing lifts the mood like fragrant and homemade. Nothing can be compared to homemade cakes!

So why did it happen? Moreover, it will take quite a bit of time to prepare homemade treats. It is only important to follow the recipe exactly, then everything will work out. It will not be difficult for you to make a chess cake. The photos presented in the article will certainly help to get an idea of ​​\u200b\u200bdessert.

This unusual cake in a section really looks like a chessboard: brown cells in it alternate with white ones. By the way, if you meet the names “Chessboard” and “Chess” somewhere, you should know that they all mean the same work of confectionery art.

There are many recipes for this cake. And no wonder: he fell in love with the sweet tooth so much that, based on the basic recipe, numerous variations began to appear. So under the name "Chess" any cakes can be hidden that give the same chess in the context. Dark fragments can represent a cake, and light fragments can represent a curd filling, etc.

But we offer you a good old classic: sponge cake with custard cream. Laconic, simple in execution and insanely delicious - exactly the same as the “Chess” cake our mothers know.

Chess Cake Recipe

Break the eggs into a bowl, beat with a mixer for 8-10 minutes. In the process, in small portions, add sugar to the egg mass. Sift flour through a sieve. Add baking powder to it. Stir. Pour the flour with baking powder into the egg-sugar mass. To do this, mix the mass with a spatula in the direction from the bottom up and add a mixture of flour and powder to it in small portions. Stir until the mass becomes homogeneous.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease a baking dish (preferably round) with butter. Pour the dough into it, smooth the top, put in the oven and bake until done. Prepare the brown crust. It is made in the same way as white. Cocoa should be added to the dry mass - flour and baking powder for dough.

Break the eggs into a bowl. Pour half of the sugar into them, beat for a couple of minutes, pour in 250 ml of milk, add flour and beat until smooth. Pour the remaining milk into a saucepan, add the second half of the sugar and vanilla. Put on fire and bring to a boil. Pour in the egg mixture in a thin stream. Stirring constantly, cook over low heat until the cream thickens. Remove from heat and let cool.

An outlandish chess cake is assembled from biscuit rings of two colors. Take the butter out of the refrigerator in advance and let it soften (but not melt). When it becomes soft, beat with a mixer. Add in small portions to the frozen cream and beat too. At the end, put sour cream, beat again. Prepare the cakes. Cut each one in half lengthwise. You will get four cakes: two white and two brown.

Take three round objects of different diameters. For example, a wide plate, a smaller plate and a bowl or cup. They will play the role of cutting molds. Attach the first mold to the cake and run a knife along it. As a result, you must cut a ring out of the cake. Do the same with the second and third shapes. Do the same with the remaining cakes. Each of them will be divided into three rings and one circle.

Collect the cakes by mixing the rings. For example: the first ring, the widest, is brown, the second is white, the third is brown, the inner circle is white. Since all the figures were made using the same molds, they have the same size. The result is four striped cakes: two with a white outer circle and two with brown.

Assemble the cake, brushing with cream and alternating the layers: if the first was with a white outer ring, then the second should be with brown, etc. Grease the top cake and sides with cream. If desired, sprinkle with coconut or chocolate chips, nuts or any other topping. Put the cake in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours to soak. Take out and serve.