Chasing the trend! 80 bucks valued checkers cake

I made this cake for a friend of mine in lab; it was his birthday last Sunday. He's a really nice guy; thus I think he deserves a good husband! He was searching for Lady M the bakery's menu the other day to pick a cake for his friend's birthday, and he loved the checks! So not creative enough, but why not trying baking my friend himself a checks cake this time- I knew he was gonna love it!

To be honest, I'm not super crazy about the checkers cake- it consists only plain sponge cake and chocolate sponge cake, and the point they are selling is the assemble. OK, nice presentation is important, I guess. But a nicely-presented sponge cake sells 80 bucks!!! I'm so going to save this money XP

When I got to make it, I changed the plain sponge cake to white chocolate cream cheese mousse, so it has another layer of flavor and texture. It was not my creation, I was referring to this recipe.http://www.xiachufang.com/recipe/261895/. The whole process was not super difficult, but it was painful indeed. I felt I was like a child, doing some awkward craft homework lol. To make the checkers uniform and pretty, I needed to use a ruler and measure everything!!!

Anyway, here was what I got. I'm satisfied with my masterpiece! I brought it to lab; people loved it! Just my boss finally asked me the question: did you have pretty much free time??? lolllllllll

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