Elizabeth's Cake

Last Sunday, One of my dear friends, Elizabeth Garner, turned 20! So, what better way to celebrate than a great cake, right? Elizabeth, also self dubbed "E in the Pink" (insert giggles here), is obsessed with the color pink. She claims to have worn some item of clothing that was pink since she was in the fifth grade. A little dedicated, don't you think?


So, I started with the obvious- pink cake, right? A friend later suggested to make a pink checkerboard cake- far more genius than my idea. Elizabeth, who attended Sweet Briar College in VA, still adores the school colors, pink and green.

I had to get two large bottles of red and green food coloring, but it was worth it!

I found a standard checkerboard set at Michaels- Wilton's brand I believe. The batter was a standard pound cake recipe.



Alternating colors were used to create the checkerboard effect when cut. Since three pans were used, there would be nine squares in all in a cut piece.

Oh yeah, and of course- the icing!!!



Pink and green, of course, to keep with the colors. Nice pale pink for the background, dark pink for the writing, and dark green for the edging. Accidentally dropped the bottle of green- not the lime green I intended- whoops!! I obviously needed my typography geek Elizabeth to help me center letters, tee hee.