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 8 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Zebra cake
- You need 2 cups of self raising flour.
- Prepare 4 of eggs.
- It’s 4 of tbspns margarine (used prestige).
- Prepare 1/2 of tspn baking soda.
- You need 1 of tspn vanilla.
- You need 1/4 cup of cocoa.
- It’s 1/2 cup of milk.
- You need 1 cup of sugar.
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 instructions
- In a bowl add 1 cup sugar and 4 tablespoon full margarine. Mix the ingredients using a hand mixer until it's Fluffy and pale.
- Bit in one egg at a time as you mix well…
- Add 1 tspn vanilla and combine well..
- In a separate bowl put in the baking flour and add 1/2 tspn baking soda and whisk to combine well.
- Add the flour to the mixture in 2 portions as you whisk well using a spoon after each pour..
- Once the flour has combined well, add in milk bit by bit as you check the consistency of the batter. It should not be too runny or thick..
- Once it's read set aside…
- In a separate bowl add the cocoa powder and 1 teaspoon milk. Combine well. You can add in more milk to desolve the cocoa but it shouldn't be runny. It should be like a paste..
- Pour 1/3 of the batter to the bowl with cocoa mixture and mix till well combined..
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees..
- Prepare your baking tin by smearing margarine and baking flour.. Swirl baking tin so that the flour can be distributed evenly..
- POUR IN two spoonsfull of the first batter(one without cocoa) at the middle of your baking tin. Pour in two spoonsfull of the cocoa mixture on top..
- Repeat the same process. Alternating the batters..
- Bake at 180 degrees for 60 minutes or until a fork comes clean when inserted.
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!
