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 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Zebra cake
- Prepare 250 grams of all purpose Flour.
- It’s 5 grams of Baking powder.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 250 grams of Sugar.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of Vanilla extract.
- Prepare 150 grams of Butter.
- You need 3 of Eggs.
- You need 180 ml of Milk.
- You need 25 grams of Cocoa powder.
- You need 1 pinch of Salt.
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
- Line a 24 cm cake pan with parchment paper and brush with butter. Sift together 250 grams of flour and 5 grams (1 teaspoon) of baking powder. Add the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and mix using a whisk just until combined. It takes less than a minute to mix the batter..
- Remove 1/3 of the cake batter and place in a separate bowl. Add 25 grams of cocoa powder and 30 ml of milk. Mix just until combined. Pour one ladle of the vanilla batter into the center of the cake pan..
- Use a small ladle or an ice cream scoop to pour the chocolate batter in the center of the vanilla batter, and continue until you’ve used up all your batter. Bake at 180°C for 35-40 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean..
- Remove from the oven, cool slightly, unmold, invert, remove the parchment paper and cool completely on a rack. Serve as is with tea or coffee. We love baking marbled cakes, they are beautiful and easy to make..
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!
