Vanilla and Chocolate Cake with Cream Cheese Icing and Grape Jelly

I have always wanted to make a finer, more complicated cake as dessert, so there I go:

Vanilla cake base

Ingredients:

3 eggs

1.5 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1 cup of butter

1 cup of powdered sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder

1/2 teaspoon of salt

1 cup of all purpose flour

Preheat over to 350F, grease pan of choice. Mix melted butter, sugar, and eggs together first, then add baking powder, salt, and purpose flour. After it turns into homogeneous mixture, add vanilla extract. Pour mixture into greased pan and place in oven for 30 minutes. Take a tooth pick, stick into the raised cake base. If the bottom of tooth pick appear liquid-like, place cake base back into oven and bake for 5-10 minutes.

Chocolate cake base

I used Hershey's Kitchen's "Perfectly Chocolate" recipe.

Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients:

8 tablespoon of butter

1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar

4 oz cream cheese

3 drops of lemon juice

3 drops of vanilla extract

Do not melt butter prior to mixing, melting butter will ruin the texture of icing. In a pan, mix butter, powdered sugar, and cream cheese until mixture turned smooth and creamy. If mixture seem to hard to mix, leave mixture in room temperature for a longer period of time for it to turn softer. Finally, add lemon juice and vanilla extract and mix well.

To make the cake in picture above

Ingredients:

All of the above plus commercially available grape jelly

Cut chocolate cake base and vanilla cake base into small squares of desire size. Stack alternating layers one on top of another, add grape jelly in between layers for stabilizing and taste. With some extra cream cheese icing, coat them outside of cake until the entirety are covered with icing. If you want, you can create different patterns with forks or spoons. The patterns of icing shown in picture are created by the tip of a small fork. Lastly, for appearance, dap some grape jelly on the plate around the cake. Depending on the size of the cake you want to make, you are going to have some extra. With those, you can make another cake just like these, or you can use it for other purposes.