Making a chess cake!

The Hunter Elementary School chess club in Raleigh made this fun chess cake to celebrate another great year! Here’s how you can make one, too:

One of the chess club parents ordered the cake itself from the Whole Foods Market bakery. She emailed the bakery a photo of one of the club’s chessboards so that the bakery could create a realistic chess board out of icing. The cake was delicious and reasonably priced.

After researching several options including ordering pre-made chocolate chess pieces from Etsy, the parent decided to buy molds to make the chess pieces herself. She selected MoldFun 3D chess piece silicone molds from Amazon.

She bought 10 ounces each of Ghirardelli dark and white chocolate melting wafers for the molds from Target.

The chocolate chess pieces looked great and were delicious!

She waited to place the pieces on the cake at school so there was no risk of them falling over in transit. 

We did have a second, traditionally-decorated cake for students who have allergies or dietary restrictions. Next year, we can buy vegan chocolate to make vegan chess pieces, too.

One final recommendation if you have a large chess club is to use the sharpest knife possible to cut the cake. This makes it easier to cut a large number of pieces.

Have fun making a chess cake for your club!