We had been to the Zoo few days back. I would not know why,the Zebra really caught my fancy . I thought I should bake a cookie with stripes, but then I came across a Zebra cake recipe.
So, why not bake a 'Zebra Cake'.
This cake looks similar to a marble cake, but with perfect stripes. For a marble cake, we would pour the plain cake batter and the chocolate cake batter in the cake tin and then use a fork or a skewer to make patterns. But for a Zebra pattern cake, we need to alternatively pour the different colour cake batter on top of the other. A very simple technique, the cake is a perfect beauty.
Ingredients:
All purpose Flour-2 1/2 cups
Sugar- 1 1/4 cup
Salt-1 tsp
Baking Powder-2 1/4 tsp
Cocoa Powder- 4 tbsp
Milk- 1 cup+1 /4 cup
Oil- 3/4 cup
Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp
Eggs - 4
Method:
1.Pre-heat the oven to 170 degrees celcius. Sift flour, salt, and baking powder in a large bowl.
2.Beat the eggs well.
3.Combine the sugar,oil,1 cup of milk,vanilla extract and the beaten eggs in another bowl with the help of a electric hand mixer or a stand mixer.
4.Add the dry ingredients little by little to the oil-egg mixture.
5.Divide this cake batter into two halves.
6.Take one portion of the cake batter and add cocoa powder to it. Now you would notice that the batter has become stiff, just add 1/4 cup ( or less )of milk to it to bring it back to the same consistency.
7.Prepare a cake tin and line with parchment paper.
8.In the cake tin, pour a ladle of the plain cake batter and then pour the chocolate cake batter right in the centre . See pic below ...
9.Repeat this procedure ,but alternatively pouring the different colour cake batter.
10.Bake for 35 to 40 minutes in a 170 degrees centigrade.
11.Cool on a wire rack.
Everyone at home was so fascinated by the cake , I did not have the opportunity to click a picture of a sliced cake. There was nothing left :)
Note: Just to jazz it further, I have used a tooth pick and drawn a line across all the circles. This patter would appear only on top of the cake.
So, why not bake a 'Zebra Cake'.
This cake looks similar to a marble cake, but with perfect stripes. For a marble cake, we would pour the plain cake batter and the chocolate cake batter in the cake tin and then use a fork or a skewer to make patterns. But for a Zebra pattern cake, we need to alternatively pour the different colour cake batter on top of the other. A very simple technique, the cake is a perfect beauty.
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| Zebra Cake |
Ingredients:
All purpose Flour-2 1/2 cups
Sugar- 1 1/4 cup
Salt-1 tsp
Baking Powder-2 1/4 tsp
Cocoa Powder- 4 tbsp
Milk- 1 cup+1 /4 cup
Oil- 3/4 cup
Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp
Eggs - 4
Method:
1.Pre-heat the oven to 170 degrees celcius. Sift flour, salt, and baking powder in a large bowl.
2.Beat the eggs well.
3.Combine the sugar,oil,1 cup of milk,vanilla extract and the beaten eggs in another bowl with the help of a electric hand mixer or a stand mixer.
4.Add the dry ingredients little by little to the oil-egg mixture.
5.Divide this cake batter into two halves.
6.Take one portion of the cake batter and add cocoa powder to it. Now you would notice that the batter has become stiff, just add 1/4 cup ( or less )of milk to it to bring it back to the same consistency.
7.Prepare a cake tin and line with parchment paper.
8.In the cake tin, pour a ladle of the plain cake batter and then pour the chocolate cake batter right in the centre . See pic below ...
9.Repeat this procedure ,but alternatively pouring the different colour cake batter.
10.Bake for 35 to 40 minutes in a 170 degrees centigrade.
11.Cool on a wire rack.
Everyone at home was so fascinated by the cake , I did not have the opportunity to click a picture of a sliced cake. There was nothing left :)
Note: Just to jazz it further, I have used a tooth pick and drawn a line across all the circles. This patter would appear only on top of the cake.
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