Instructions

1. Buy a checkerboard cake set at almost any craft or baking store, or online. The set has three round cake pans and a ring divider for seperating the cake mixes.

2. Mix two different colored cake mixes according to the recipes. Mix them each in a seperate bowl and don't combine them.

3. Place the rind divider in the first pan and pour a cake mix in the center ring. Skip a ring and pour the same mix into another ring. Now go back and pour the other color cake mix into the empty rings. Your colors should be alternating when done.

4. Remove the divider ring slowly be lifting it straight up out of the cake mix. The colors will be touching now but shouldn't mix.

5. Repeat these steps exactly for the next cake pan. For the last cake pan, start with a different color in the center of the pan. This pan should have a pattern opposite from the other two.

6. Bake the cake as directed in the recipe.

7. Allow the cakes to cool and then remove them from the pans. The two matching colored pans will be the top and bottom layers while the opposite colored pan will be the middle layer.

8. Stack the cake layers on a cake board. Alternate the colors so when you slice the cake a checkerboard pattern can be seen.

9. Coat the cake with icing of your choice and serve.