Chess cupcake: recipe with photo

There are a lot of good recipes for making a chess cake. But I want to try the one from childhood. Buying it in a store, we are waiting for exactly the taste that was before, but, unfortunately, expectations do not always coincide with reality. And in order not to be disappointed, let's prepare a cupcake at home.

Chess cupcake recipe in accordance with GOST

In order to bake this culinary masterpiece, we will need the following ingredients:

1. Wheat flour - 750 grams.
2. Margarine - 400 grams.
3. Sugar - 400 grams.
4. Chicken eggs - four pieces.
5. Vanillin - four grams.
6. Baking powder - two teaspoons.
7. Ground cinnamon - one teaspoon.
8. Cocoa powder - 50 grams.
9. Blackcurrant jam - for impregnation. You can take any other jam, but the main thing is that it is sour.

The cooking algorithm is as follows:

1. First, divide all the products in half.
2. To prepare white cakes, we combine 200 grams of sugar and margarine in a mixer bowl, two eggs and beat everything until a lush, homogeneous mass is formed.
3. After that, reduce the speed and add 400 grams of flour, two grams of vanillin and one teaspoon of baking powder.
4. For dark cakes, we use the same kneading technology, mix the remaining sugar, margarine, eggs, and then add 350 grams of flour, 50 grams of cocoa, cinnamon, vanillin and baking powder.
5. Both tests should be of medium consistency.
6. Now you need to bake both cakes at a temperature of 180 degrees for 20-30 minutes.
7. We grease the rectangular shape with oil and send white dough there. It is better to level it with a hand previously moistened in cold water. Do the same with dark kneading.
8. When our cakes are ready, grease the copiously white cake with jam.
9. Put a dark cake on top of it, cut the cupcake across in half.
10. Now put jam on one of the cut halves and cover with the other half on top, so that the layers alternate in color.
11. After these steps, we cover our blank with parchment paper, and put oppression on top and send everything to the refrigerator for the night. During this time, cakes are saturated.
12. In the morning we get the chess cupcake and continue assembling it.
13. We cut off all the irregularities, then cut the cupcake into four equal parts vertically.
14. Next, grease the first cut part with jam and put the second on it so that the dark and light parts alternate, in other words, in a checkerboard pattern. You will get the light part over the dark part and vice versa. And so with all four layers.
15. Now coat the chess cupcake with jam on all sides.
16. From the pieces of the cake, make small crumbs and sprinkle on all sides.

Chess cake according to GOST is ready. After that, you can enjoy its divine taste.

Cupcake with alcohol

We need these ingredients:

• butter, sugar, flour - 400 grams each;
• milk - two tablespoons;
• whiskey, cognac or rum - two tablespoons;
• eggs - eight pieces;
• cocoa - 50 grams;
• vanillin - 10 grams.

For cream:

• soft butter - 200 grams;
• one egg at room temperature;
• sugar - 100 grams;
• cocoa - two tablespoons;
• vanillin - to taste.

Cook like this:

1. Beat the butter first until splendid. Without ceasing to beat it, add sugar, eggs and alcohol.
2. Then add the sifted flour to the mass.
3. Divide the dough into two parts. Add vanillin to one and cocoa to the other.
4. Next, repeat all the steps from the first recipe.

How to make a cream:

1. Beat the egg and add hot milk with sugar to it. All cool to room temperature.
2. Beat the butter and add milk syrup, cocoa and vanillin to it. A homogeneous mass should be obtained. It is to her that we will infiltrate the chess cupcake.

Kefir dough

The following recipe for a chess cake is very easy to prepare. The following ingredients are needed:

• margarine - 200 grams;
• kefir - 250 milliliters;
• granulated sugar - two glasses;
• four eggs;
• cocoa - five tablespoons;
• soda - an incomplete tablespoon;
• vinegar - to extinguish soda;
• wheat flour - five glasses;
• icing sugar - for sprinkling cupcake.

The cooking method is very simple:

1. Thoroughly mix the eggs, sugar and kefir.
2. Add soft margarine, soda, slaked vinegar, and flour to this mass.
3. Now we divide the resulting dough into two equal parts and pour cocoa into one of them.
4. Lubricate the baking dish with oil and put the dough in it with a spoon. Alternating in color - a spoonful of white dough, a spoonful of chocolate and again white.
5. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake a chess cake for about half an hour.
6. Sprinkle the finished cake with powdered sugar.

Fancy Cupcake Recipe

• semolina - 100 grams;
• honey - three tablespoons;
• sugar - 150 grams;
• vanilla and cardamom - half a teaspoon;
• coconut flakes - two tablespoons;
• flour - 200 grams;
• lemon peel of half fruit;
• currant puree - 100 milliliters;
• ripe orange - one fruit;
• vegetable oil and orange juice - 100 milliliters each;
• baking powder - 10 grams.

Cooking:

1. To knead the dough, you need to divide all the products in half.
2. Pour semolina, sugar and sifted flour into the first bowl. We do the same in the second bowl.
3. Remove the zest from the orange and finely chop the flesh. Now send these ingredients, as well as orange juice, oil, and coconut flakes, to the first bowl.
4. Next, to the remaining dry mixture (in the second container) we send cardamom, vanilla, oil, lemon zest and mashed currant.
5. Now fill the dough in molds, covered with parchment paper and greased with oil.
6. Bake at 180 degrees for about 30-40 minutes.
7. Melt honey with water. This we will soak cakes.
8. The assembly of the cake occurs in the same way as in the first recipe.

Multicooking Recipe

This recipe is ideal for those who have absolutely no time. We need:

• eggs - eight pieces;
• flour - two glasses;
• sugar - one and a half glasses;
• butter - four tablespoons;
• baking powder - 10 grams;
• cocoa - five tablespoons.

Cooking like this:

1. Beat eggs with sugar until stable peaks.
2. Now carefully pour the flour, mix and divide the dough in half.
3. In the second part of the dough, add cocoa and mix gently.
4. Now carefully spread the dough with a tablespoon. First, one spoonful of dark dough, one light and staggered. So fill the multicooker bowl halfway, because the dough will rise.
5. We put the multicooker on the option "Baking".

The photo of the chess cupcake presented below confirms that the result is more than good.

Tips for housewives

1. When preparing a famous chess cupcake, use only premium flour.
2. It is best to take butter and margarine in half. Then the baking will not be too greasy or dry.
3. Extinguish soda with lemon juice, then the cupcake will be more airy.
4. For impregnation, it is better to take jams with sourness.
5. If the recipe contains kefir, milk or cream, take these foods with a high fat content.