Cameron's Buddy-Bake Cake

Part of the Blue & Gold Banquet is the Buddy-Bake.
Cub Scouts are expected to bake a cake with their
'Buddy'--dad, mom, whomever. Cameron's cake
was a group effort. He wanted to celebrate his
love for Chess, so we made a Chess board cake
with dark and white chocolate Chess pieces.

Cameron with the finished cake.

This is two cakes baked into seven inch squares,
assembled into a fourteen inch square and
frosted with four batches of frosting. The black
squares are 32 Ghirardelli milk chocolate squares.
We molded the Chess pieces from incredibly
delicious confectioner's chocolate.
The cake's title is 'Check and Mate.'

Up close the geometry doesn't bear up to scrutiny. But the cake
took first prize in its category in the Buddy-Bake competition.