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 have Zebra Cake using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Zebra Cake
- You need 2 cups of All purpose flour.
- Prepare 1 cup of powdered sugar.
- You need 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
- It’s 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of cocoa powder.
- It’s 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence.
- You need 1 cup of milk.
- It’s 1 cup of Malai.
- It’s 2 teaspoons of oil.
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
- Take a bowl and add malai, oil and powdered sugar to it. Now gradually pour half of the milk and give them a good mix. Take another bowl and add all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda. Mix them well..
- Now gradually add the flour mixture to the malai mixture and mix them well. You can use a blender. Make sure the mixture is not too thick else add the remaining milk to loosen it. When there are no lumps left in the bowl add vanilla essence to it and mix it again..
- Divide the mixture equally into two bowls. Let the one be as it is, and add the cocoa powder to the other one. Mix it well. Now take a cake mould (prefer a round one) and place butter paper on it. Greasing it with butter or oil. Now pour one teaspoon of cocoa powder batter to the mould and tap it. Just above the cocoa powder batter add the other plain batter and tap again. Do this process until there is no batter left..
- With the help of a toothpick, make a line from the outer part of the batter to the center. I made 16 such lines. Now bake this cake at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes. With the help of a knife you can check if it is baked or not. If not, bake it for few more minutes. Do try this recipe guys and share your views..
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!
