Something different – A beautiful Eggless Checkerboard Chocolate Cake with chocolate rosettes and smarties
Ingredients
- 1 cup All-Purpose Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 1⁄2 tsp Baking Soda
- 6 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 3⁄4 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1⁄2 cup Vegetable oil (I used sunflower oil)
- 1⁄4 cup Hot Coffee -(1 tsp of coffee in 1⁄4cup hot water)
- 1⁄4 cup Milk
- 1⁄4 cup Yogurt
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
Chocolate Icing
- 100 g Unsalted Butter room temp
- 1⁄3 cup Cocoa powder
- 100g Icing sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- 2-3 tsp Hot water

Method:
- In a large bowl sift together the all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder, and sugar.
- Make a well, add all the wet ingredients one by one.
- Mix well, till everything is combined
- Pour batter into a greased pan
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 20 – 25 minutes, or until the cake tester comes out clean.
- Once out of the oven, transfer the pan to a wiring rack to cool, once cool decorate to your heart’s content.
- How to assemble the checkered cake
- I made each cake turned them out and let them cool, then I took my doughnut cutter and made sure it was in the center before I pressed down and cut the cake into three circles.
- Decorate with chocolate icing.
- First place the big chocolate ring on a plate take your icing and place it around the inside of the ring then place the middle-sized vanilla piece and ice around the center and then place the smallest chocolate piece in the center.
- Cover the entire top of the cake and repeat the same process starting with the big vanilla piece, icing, and ending with the smallest vanilla piece in the center. Ice the entire cake and decorate as you wish.

Prepared, tried, and tested by: Bobby Swanson