Half-and-Half Cake

This is the undecorated cake from yesterday's post. It isn't actually one cake, but two halves of eight inch round cakes, a chocolate and a vanilla. This way you can please (mostly) everyone. Marble cake has a similar idea, however with marble you get chocolate and vanilla in every piece, so if someone hates chocolate (or vanilla) they still don't get a piece they like. You could make one cake that is half chocolate and half vanilla. Just make it like a marble cake (or make a separate chocolate and a vanilla batter), but instead of swirling the batters together, use a spoon or a piping bag to pipe each batter in only half the pan. This way, there may still be two pieces at the borders with some of each flavor, unless you put a small strip of foil between the batters. 

The different borders around the cake represent creativity, a repeated term throughout this unit, as many believe creativity is being discouraged by our education system today. I used the colors blue, yellow, and red because they are the primary colors, which I think fit well with the theme of education. My cake is divided into two – half of it is chocolate and half of it is vanilla. This contrast could represent many things throughout this unit, including the stark differences in opinions, differences between education in the past and today, differences between being book smart and street smart, and differences between how we learn and how others learn.