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 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Zebra cake
- Prepare 1 cup of sugar.
- It’s 1 cup of milk.
- It’s 1 cup of butter.
- Prepare 3 cup of maida.
- It’s 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- You need 2 tbsp of baking powder.
- It’s Pinch of salt.
- Prepare For of chocolate batter-.
- You need 3 tbsp of chocolate powder.
- It’s 1/4 cup of milk.
- It’s 1 tbsp 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 step by step
- Grease and line with parchment paper, a 9 inch round cake pan. Preheat oven at 180..
- Whisk together in a large bowl the dry ingredients, flour salt and baking powder. Set aside..
- In another bowl mix the cocoa powder with 1/4 cup milk and 1 tbsp of sugar. Mix butter with sugar until creamy. Add vanilla extract..
- With the mixer on low, alternate adding gradually milk and flour mixture until all is well incorporated..
- Remove two cups of the batter and mix them with the chocolate mixture. Use one tablespoon for each batter to create the layers of batter on the prepared pan. Begin from the middle of the pan, take one spoon of white batter then over it add a spoon of chocolate batter and repeat these steps until all batter has been used. If you don't have the patience to make these layers just add one batter on top of the other and create swirls with a knife or fork to create the marbled effect..
- Bake for 50-60 minutes until the toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean..
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!
