Checkerboard Cake
This is a largely Pinterest inspired project. I am fairly inclined to call this at least a semi-Pinterest fail. I hesitate to call it a full Pinterest fail because it was super delicious and you can tell that it's three different cakes. But I'm still glad I did it because it was indeed a learning experience. So I choose lemon, strawberry and coconut, which are nice summery flavors. But I actually used them because I have random bottles of lemon, strawberry and coconut extracts in my cabinet. Honestly, it was cabinet clean out day. Lemon Strawberry Coconut Checkerboard Cake Directions I used two recipes which I've already blogged out- the ultimate vanilla cake and my standard vanilla buttercream, which can be found here . Make double batch of the batter, and separated it into three bowls, with around 2¼ cups in each. Then I add 1 tablespoon of each extract. Let the coconut one be, then put yellow food coloring into the lemon batter and red into the strawberry...