Zebra Cake. Everybody is familiar with this zebra cake with chocolate and vanilla. Still a bit warm, along a cold cup of milk, zebra cake always makes a delicious treat. Zebra cake is one of our most requested recipes.
This Zebra Cake is one master piece. Slathered in decadent chocolate cream cheese frosting, the real visual stunner happens when you cut into it and reveal the whirls and swirls of beautiful batter. Everybody is familiar with this chocolate and vanilla cake, either made in zebra or marbled style, the taste of it reminds of childhood probably for many of. You can cook Zebra Cake using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Zebra Cake
- You need 5 of egg yolks.
- Prepare 300 grams of sugar.
- It’s 1 packages of vanilla sugar.
- Prepare 250 ml of vegetable oil.
- It’s 125 ml of water, warm.
- You need 375 grams of flour.
- It’s 1 packages of baking powder.
- It’s 5 of egg whites.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of cocoa powder.
Pour ganache over the baked and cooled cake starting in the middle and circling towards the edges coating it all. Zebra cake is often baked as a single layer cake or a bundt cake, but I needed a fun and towering cake for our friend's birthday. And if you came here looking for a Little Debbie zebra cake, so sorry! The Zebra Cake has a very exotic look to it and often has people wondering what made the zebra stripes on the inside.
Zebra Cake step by step
- Whisk the egg whites untill stiff. Set aside.
- Mix together egg yolks, sugar and vanilla sugar until everything is fluffy.
- Add oil and water, mix well..
- Add flour and baking powder..
- Stir in the beaten egg whites..
- Divide the batter into two and add to the one half the cocoa powder.
- Set in the middle of a well-greased spring form pan (26cm) two tablespoons of white batter. On top, give two tablespoons of black batter. Repeat until all batter is used..
- Bake for 50-60 min at 175ºC.
The texture of the cake is very moist and has a nice balance of chocolate and. Zebra Cake is fun to make. If you have kids, mobilize them to help you. This is the consistency of the Zebra Cake batter. Fun part – creating the stripes!
