Chess Cake Insides

Here are the innards of the cake. It took way too much effort to do the checkerboard pattern in a square cake (all the kits out there that I found are for circle cakes). O.o There is probably an easier way to do it, but I muddled along the best that I could. The finished product came out rather nicely, but the process was quite messy. ^_^

The cookies in the background were from a bakery, so no, I didn’t make the fancy, cute cookies.
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For our birthdays, my sister and I have weeklong celebrations; she plans mine and I plan hers. For her 25th b-day, the theme I did was Alice in Wonderland/Chess. Each day there was a pile of twenty-five something (sprinkles, buttons, marshmallows, etc.), a special thing for the day (a gift, a game night with family, a trip to Toronto, etc.), and a card with one of the Sir John Tenniel Alice illustrations on one side and a piece of prose written by me, in the style of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, that was a clue to the day’s surprise. The prose had blank spaces in it that could be solved by the pieces I arranged on the chess board every day.

After the week was over (her birthday was on a Tuesday), I surprised her the following Saturday by throwing her an Alice in Wonderland themed tea/b-day party, complete with party goers in Alice costumes.