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 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Zebra cake
- You need 1 cup of all purpose flour.
- It’s 2 tbsp of powderd sugar.
- It’s 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
- Prepare 200 grams of milk maid.
- It’s 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
- It’s 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 50 grams of melted butter.
- Prepare 1 tsp of red gel colour.
- You need 2 tbsp of oil.
- Prepare 1 tsp of vinegar.
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
- Sift flour, baking powder, soda, powdered sugar, cocoa powder in a bowl, mix it well and keep aside..
- In another bowl add condensed milk, vanilla essence, water, mix it well..
- Now gradually add dry mixture into the bowl of condensed milk mixture and mix it well..
- Add melted butter, oil in the batter and mix it well in cut and fold method to trap the air which makes the cake soft and spongy..
- Lastly, add vinegar, mix it well and make a smooth batter. Divide the batter into two equal parts..
- Take one part of the batter, pour cocoa powder, few drops of colour and mix it well..
- This way vanilla batter and colourful batter are ready..
- Take 6-inch aluminum tin, grease it with butter and dust with flour..
- Pour 1 tbsp of plain/ vanilla batter in the middle of the prepared pan and then pour over 1 tbsp of colourful batter. Repeat the process and use both the batters alternate to make layers until all the batter has been used..
- Tab the pan on the countertop so that air bubbles get removed and bake it on 180 degrees in a pre-heated oven for 40 minutes or till the knife inserted into the center of cake comes out clean..
- Once it cools down a bit, scratch the sides of the pan, invert the tin and tap sharply to unmould the cake..
- Cut into slices and serve..
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!
