Chessboard locations

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 4 m.-sized eggs
• 3 tbsp water, cold
• 200 g sugar
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• 150 g flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 5 tbsp cocoa powder
• 3 tbsp oil
• 7 sheets of white gelatin
• 400 g whipped cream
• 2 packets of vanilla sugar
• 500 g low-fat curd cheese
• 150 g sugar
• ⅛ liter milk
• Lemon(s), untreated, grated zest and 4 tbsp juice

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour 15 minutes; Rest time approx. 6 hours; Total time approx. 7 hours 15 minutes

Line the bottom of a 26 cm springform pan with baking paper. Separate the eggs. Beat the egg whites with 3 tablespoons of cold water until stiff, then add the sugar and vanilla sugar. Beat in the egg yolks, one at a time. Sift the flour, baking powder, and cocoa powder together and fold in with the oil. Spread the batter into the pan and bake in a preheated oven at 175°C (150°C fan/gas mark 2) for about 35 minutes. Then let it cool. Cut the base in half horizontally. Place a cake ring around the bottom layer. Cut the second layer into 6 rings, each about 2 cm wide. Place the first, third, and fifth rings (counting from the outside in) on the bottom layer, each 2 cm apart. Soften the gelatin in cold water. Beat the cream with the vanilla sugar until stiff. Mix the quark with the sugar, milk, lemon zest, and lemon juice. Dissolve the gelatin over low heat, stir in 2 tablespoons of quark cream, and then stir this into the remaining cream. Fold in the cream. Using a piping bag, fill approximately half of the cream between the rings. Place the second, fourth, and sixth pastry rings on top of these cream rings. Fill the remaining cream into the spaces and spread it on the cake. Refrigerate the cake for 5 hours. Place ten strips of paper (approx. 2 x 28 cm) in a grid pattern on the cake. Dust 1 teaspoon of cocoa powder into the spaces. Carefully remove the paper. P.S.: In this case, the pattern on the cake doesn’t match the checkerboard pattern, so I made two cardboard stencils and, using the offset method, I got the correct pattern. The calorie information refers to 1 piece out of 16.