Zebra Cake: Recipes At Home + Photos And Videos

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Zebra cake: the secrets of cooking at home

Choosing a recipe for a special occasion or family celebration? Or maybe you want to please a loved one? Make a Zebra cake. It is not only nutritious, but also delicious. And its appearance will not leave guests indifferent, will cause a considerable share of surprise and enthusiastic exclamations.

Content

• 1 Dessert history
• 2 Secrets of making delicious cakes

• 3 Which cream to choose

  • 3.1 Sour cream and lemon

  • 3.2 From condensed milk

    3.2.1 Video: cream from condensed milk and butter

• 4 How to decorate

  • 4.1 Recipe for dark icing

    4.1.1 Video: preparing chocolate icing

  • 4.2 White frosting recipe

• 5 Step-by-step recipes for making Zebra cake

  • 5.1 On sour cream

    • 5.1.1 Video: Classic Zebra Cake Recipe
    • 5.1.2 Simple syrup

  • 5.2 On kefir

    5.2.1 Video: how to bake a Zebra cake on kefir

  • 5.3 With cottage cheese and chocolate

    5.3.1 Video: original Zebra cake with cottage cheese

  • 5.4 In a multicooker

    • 5.4.1 How to make the frosting
    • 5.4.2 Video: Delicious two-color cake in a multicooker
• 6 How to use biscuit trimmings

Dessert history

The name of the master who was the first to create such an original cake is not known for certain. But this happened in the last decade of the existence of the Soviet Union. It was a period of total deficit and the absence of any excesses among the majority of the country's population. However, it was possible to buy the main ingredients for the cake. And many housewives used it. The recipe was written down in notebooks and passed from mouth to mouth. Today, this method would be called "viral advertising." And at that time, the pie became a real bestseller of culinary skills, won the hearts of housewives and continues to do so to this day.

Secrets of making delicious cakes

Cakes of different types are often used in cakes. And this is not unusual. But so that two types of dough combine in one cake, and even form bizarre stripes resembling the skin of the animal of the same name - this, you see, is rarely seen. Usually, everyone who tries such a cake for the first time asks the question: how did she manage to do this? It's actually very, very simple.

1. To get started, you need two types of dough: light and dark. It should be liquid, but not too liquid to spread slowly, but the layers do not mix. The consistency is like sour cream. The ingredients of these two types of dough can be different. But you can use the same thing, divided into two parts, in one of which add cocoa powder to give a chocolate brown color. This is how the housewives prepared the cakes in Soviet times. The main condition is to create a contrast of the layers. And this is the first secret.

   

   To prepare the cake, 2 types of dough are used: light and dark

2. It is better to take a baking dish with removable sides. This will make it easier to remove the finished cakes from the mold. Place oiled parchment paper on the bottom. Do not grease the side to make the cakes more fluffy. Otherwise, in the literal sense, they will slide down like clockwork.

   

   If you use a split baking dish, it will be much easier to get ready-made cakes.

3. The main secret is the way the dough is laid out. First you need to put 2-3 spoons in the very center of the mold. Light or dark - it doesn't matter which one you like best. Shake the mold slightly in different directions so that the dough creeps out a little. Sometimes the bottom is completely covered with the first layer, but this is not necessary.

4. Then put 2-3 spoons of the second type of dough in the center of the mold. It is no longer necessary to tilt the mold, the dough will disperse by itself.

   

   Put the dough in 2-3 tablespoons in the center of the mold, alternating layers

5. Alternating between light and dark layers, place the entire dough of both types into a mold. Each new layer is in the center of the previous one. From above, the dough should look like a target of white and dark circles.

   

   When all the dough is laid out in the mold, it will look something like this

6. In an oven preheated to 160-180 ^o C, place the baking dish for 40-60 minutes. Try not to open it for the first half hour, the dough may shrink. Check readiness with a match or toothpick. Pierce the crust and see if there is any raw dough on the wooden surface. If not, the baked goods are ready. Otherwise, keep the cake in the oven for another 3-5 minutes and then check again.

   

   Cutaway cake

And this is what a tricolor "Zebra" looks like

Which cream to choose

There is no special cream prescribed by the recipe for the dessert. You can cook whatever you like best. For example, custard, cream or curd. You can use a budget option, soak the cakes with jam or homemade jam. Or do without impregnation altogether, serving as a cake for tea. Consider two options that were widely used in Soviet times and go well with biscuit baked goods.

Sour cream lemon

A cream made from sour cream and lemon zest goes very well with cake layers

Ingredients:

• 500 g sour cream, 33% fat;
• 1 tbsp. powdered sugar;
• 1 lemon.

Preparation:

1. Put sour cream of a thick consistency in a bowl, add powdered sugar and beat well with a mixer.

   

   To prepare the cream, sour cream must be thick

2. Wash the lemon and grate the zest on a fine grater. Try not to grab the white part, otherwise the cream will taste bitter. Separately rub the non-webbed lemon wedges. Add all this to the sour cream with sugar and mix well.

   

   Finely grated lemon peel contains many vitamins and will give the cream a unique taste

Condensed milk

There are two options for preparing the cream: from canned milk as it is, and boiled. We'll cover both ways. In addition, condensed milk can be replaced with similar canned products: cocoa, cream, coffee or "Toffee".

You can make a delicious cream from canned condensed milk

Ingredients:

• 1 can of condensed milk;
• 200 g butter;
• 1 bag of vanilla sugar.

Preparation:

1. Put the can of condensed milk, without opening, into the saucepan. Pour in cold water, bring to a boil and simmer over moderate heat for 1.5 hours. It is important that the jar is completely covered with water. It is better to take a wide cooking pot so that there is more water. Do not leave the process unattended. If the water boils away, the can remaining at the bottom of the pan will explode, and condensed milk will scatter throughout the kitchen.

   

   Condensed milk can be boiled in a pot of water

2. Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance, it should be softened.

   

   We use softened butter in the recipe.

3. After an hour and a half, drain the water from the pan, and leave the jar with condensed milk to cool. To speed up the process, you can put it under cold water.

4. Condensed milk can not be boiled, but used as it is. In this case, items 1 and 3 are skipped. Boiled condensed milk has a different, richer taste. It is denser in consistency and brown in color. Many people like this option more. But to decide, you must try both recipes.

   

   It looks like boiled condensed milk

5. Beat the butter with a mixer.

   

   Beat the butter well with a mixer

6. Add condensed milk to butter in small portions, whisking until smooth.
7. At the final stage, add vanilla sugar to the cream and mix well.

Video: cream from condensed milk and butter

How to decorate

As in the case of choosing a cream, it all depends on personal preference and imagination. If the cake has not been soaked in cream, decorating the dessert can be simplified by lightly dusting the surface with powdered sugar. It will look decent, and labor costs are minimal.

Zebra pie can be sprinkled with icing sugar

If the cake is being prepared for a special occasion, then it is better not to save on decoration. It's no secret that a beautifully decorated cake looks much better, and you want to taste it more. And he raises the mood. And since the cake is called "Zebra", you can decorate it in the same style, that is, in the form of black and white stripes. For this, respectively, you will need two types of glaze: dark and white chocolate.

You can decorate the cake with stripes of chocolate and white glaze

Dark glaze recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp. Sahara;
• 3 tbsp. l. cocoa powder;
• 5-6 Art. l. milk;
• 100 g butter.

Preparation:

1. Combine sugar with cocoa powder. Top up with milk and butter. Mix everything well.

   

   Combine the ingredients, mix well and put on a steam bath

2. Put on a steam bath. Without forgetting to stir, boil until the sugar is completely dissolved, about 5-10 minutes.

   

   You should get a homogeneous mass

3. When the frosting begins to thicken, remove from the steam bath and pour over the cake. This must be done quickly so that the chocolate does not have time to freeze.

   

   Put icing on the cake until it is frozen

4. For a better setting, put the cake covered with icing in the refrigerator and start cooking white.

Video: preparing chocolate icing

White frosting recipe

Ingredients:

• 10 g white chocolate;
• 100 g icing sugar;
• 0.5 tbsp. sour cream 33% fat;
• 100 g butter.

Preparation:

1. Break the chocolate bar without removing it from the foil. Then open the packaging and transfer the chocolate to the bowl. Put on a steam bath.

   

   To melt the chocolate faster, break it into smaller pieces.

2. Add oil. Stir constantly until the chocolate is completely melted.

   

   Melt the chocolate in a steam bath with butter and sugar, stirring continuously

3. Add the icing sugar while stirring.

4. Add sour cream and whisk until smooth. The glaze is ready.

   

   Whisk the mixture until smooth.

A beautifully decorated cake creates a good mood

Step-by-step recipes for making Zebra cake

For several decades, "Zebra" has not lost its popularity. And it is not surprising that there were masters who came up with new variations of this wonderful delicacy. Currently, cake cakes are made with or without sour cream, kefir or cottage cheese. There are also original recipes. The development and production of new types of household appliances has also made adjustments to the recipe. Today, for example, there is already a recipe adapted for making a dessert in a slow cooker.

On sour cream

Ingredients:

• 300 g flour;
• 300 g sugar;
• 200 g sour cream;
• 4 eggs;
• 150 g butter;
• 2 tbsp. l. milk;
• 2 tbsp. l. cocoa powder;
• 1 tsp baking powder for dough;
• 0.5 tsp soda.

Prepare the ingredients for the cake

Preparation:

1. Prepare a dry mixture: for this combine flour with baking powder and baking soda. These ingredients will help the dough rise and make it fluffy and fluffy.

2. Add eggs to a container with sugar and beat with a mixer until fluffy.

   

   Combine eggs and beating sugar in a separate bowl

3. Combine the sugar and egg mixture with softened butter. Use a mixer to mix until smooth. To make stirring easier, the butter can be cut into smaller pieces.

   

   Add softened butter and beat with a mixer

4. Then add sour cream and mix everything well again.

   

   While whisking, add sour cream

5. Add dry flour mixture in small portions to eggs and sour cream. Stir first with a whisk, then with a mixer until smooth. The dough is ready.

   

   Flour should be added in small portions so that there are no lumps.

6. Divide it into two equal parts. Pour cocoa powder into one of them. Add milk to the chocolate dough to have the same consistency as white.

   

   Divide the finished dough into 2 parts: make a light and dark blank

7. Put the dough on a mold, alternating between light and dark layers. Put in a preheated 160 ^of an oven and bake until done. Then refrigerate to room temperature and remove from the mold.

   

   If the dough, laid out according to the basic rule of "Zebra", is mixed a little, you can get the original type of cake

Video: classic recipe for the Zebra cake

Sugar syrup

Ingredients:

• 50 g sugar;
• 5 g vanilla sugar;
• 50 ml of water.

Preparation:

1. Combine the ingredients: white sugar and vanilla sugar. Add water and stir.

   

   Combine sugar and vanillin with water

2. Put on slow gas, and stirring constantly, bring to a boil.

   

   Bring to a boil over low heat, stirring occasionally

3. Refrigerate to room temperature or lower before applying to cakes.

Cognac, liqueur or rum can be added to the chilled syrup, this will give the cakes an original taste

On kefir

Ingredients:

• 220 g flour;.
• 130 g sugar;
• 1 tbsp. kefir;
• 125 g butter;
• 3 eggs;
• 20 g cocoa powder;
• 10 g vanilla sugar;
• 1/3 tsp soda;
• 1.5 tsp. baking powder;
• salt - on the tip of the knife.

Preparation:

1. In the first container, mix flour with salt and soda. Add baking powder for fluffy baked goods, stir.

2. In a second container, combine white and vanilla sugar with butter. Beat white with a mixer. While whisking, add the eggs. Beat until the sugar is completely dissolved.

   

   Beat the sugar and eggs with a mixer until a thick foam forms

3. Pour kefir into the sugar-oil mixture, in small portions, and add the contents of the first container with flour. After mixing, a homogeneous mass should be obtained. This is the basic baking dough.

   

   To make the dough homogeneous, kefir and flour must be added in small portions and immediately mixed well

4. Divide the dough into two equal portions. Combine one with cocoa powder, the other with the same amount of flour. Stir.

   

   The finished dough must be divided into 2 parts to make them multi-colored

5. Alternating layers, place the entire dough in a mold and bake until tender. Then chill the finished crust.

   

   Due to the alternation of stripes, the cake is striped like a zebra

If you need a large cake, bake 2 layers

Video: how to bake a Zebra cake on kefir

With cottage cheese and chocolate

Ingredients for the chocolate portion:

• 250 g flour;
• 1 tbsp. Sahara;
• 170 g butter;
• 200 g of chocolate;
• 3-4 eggs;
• 1 tsp baking powder;
• 1.5 g vanillin;
• salt - on the tip of the knife.

For the curd part:

• 500-600 g of cottage cheese;
• 0.5 tbsp. Sahara;
• 2 eggs;
• 50 g coconut flakes.

For decoration: powdered sugar.

Preparation:

1. Prepare the first mixture: melt the butter and chocolate in the steam bath. Break the chocolate into wedges to make the process go faster. Stir until smooth, cool slightly.
2. Make a second mixture: Combine flour, baking powder and salt.
3. Prepare the third mixture: combine sugar with vanilla, add eggs. Whisk until smooth and fluffy.

4. Connect all 3 parts. First, mix liquid: chocolate and egg. At this point, the chocolate should have cooled slightly to prevent the eggs from curdling. Add the flour portion in small portions, stirring constantly. You should get a dark dough with a thick consistency.

   

   Combine the chocolate and egg mixture

5. Prepare the curd part: to do this, beat the eggs into the curd and cover with sugar.

   

   Add eggs and sugar to the curd

6. Stir until smooth.
7. Add coconut flakes. She will give the cake a special festive flavor. Stir everything well, you get a mass of the same consistency, but already white.
8. Turn the oven and preheat to 180 ^about C.
9. Line a baking dish with baking paper. Alternating layers, lay out the dough.

10. Place in the oven. After baking, refrigerate and remove from the mold.

    

    Let the finished cake cool and remove from the mold

Video: original Zebra cake with cottage cheese

In a multicooker

Ingredients:

• 1.5 tbsp. flour;
• 1 tbsp. Sahara;
• 6 eggs;
• 0.6 tbsp. cocoa powder;
• 6 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 10 g baking powder for dough.

To prepare "Zebra" in a multicooker, natural products are used: flour, sugar, eggs, cocoa powder and vegetable oil

Preparation:

1. Break eggs into a bowl and add sugar.

   

   Beat eggs and sugar in a separate bowl

2. Beat the mixture with a mixer. The better you do this, the more fluffy the dough will be. Ideally, the mass should increase in volume by 2-3 times.
3. Pour in vegetable oil and stir.

4. And also add 1 cup flour and baking powder.

   

   Baking powder added to the dough will make it more fluffy

5. Stir everything thoroughly. You should get a homogeneous mixture without lumps.

   

   The dough for baking must be homogeneous, without clots and lumps.

6. Divide the dough into equal parts. Add the rest of the flour to one and stir.

   

   Half of the dough should remain light, add flour to it

7. In the other - cocoa powder and mix too.

   

   To make the second part dark, add cocoa powder to it

8. Grease the bottom and sides of the multicooker bowl with butter. You can use margarine or cooking oil.

   

   Lubricate the multicooker bowl with oil

9. Place the dough in the center of the mold, 2-3 spoons each, alternating colors.

   

   Put the dough strictly in the center of the multicooker bowl

10. When all the dough is transferred to the bowl, you will get something like this.

    

    When all the dough is laid out, there will be a lot of circles on it

11. If you wish, you can make a drawing. To do this, draw lines with a wooden stick from the edge to the center. The dough will move slightly in the direction of travel. Then you can draw lines in the opposite direction: from the center to the edge. So, by shifting the colors, you can create interesting drawings. Draw the lines in such a way that the stick goes deep through all the layers.

    

    You can get creative and make an interesting drawing

12. Close the lid of the multicooker. On the control panel, select the mode "Multipovar" or "Baking" 125 ^about C and set time 1:00, press "Start".

13. Remove the finished cake and chill on the wire rack. Due to the air circulation from above and below, it will cool down faster. At this time, you can start preparing the glaze.

    

    The baked cake will save the drawing

How to make frosting

Ingredients:

• 3 tbsp. l. sour cream;
• 3 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• 3 tbsp. l. cocoa powder;
• 50 g butter;

To prepare the glaze, you need very few ingredients, only 3 tablespoons

Preparation:

1. Combine cocoa powder, sugar and sour cream. Do this immediately in the multicooker bowl.

   

   Mix the ingredients for the glaze immediately in the multicooker bowl

2. Select the "Multipovar" 100 ^of C, click "Start".

3. Stir the glaze continuously It is important that it becomes homogeneous and does not burn.

   

   Stir the glaze so that it is homogeneous and make sure that it does not burn

4. As soon as bubbles appear on the surface, turn off the multicooker. It usually takes 1–2 minutes to achieve the required consistency.
5. Add butter and stir well.

6. Transfer the cake to a plate. Top with icing and allow time to harden.

   

   Put the cooled crust on a plate to cover with glaze

7. In the last step, you can paint over the glaze. For example, using condensed milk.

   

   When the chocolate icing has hardened, you can apply a pattern to it.

Video: delicious two-color pie in a slow cooker

How to use biscuit trimmings

You can make cake pops yourself at home.

From unnecessary leftovers, you can independently prepare such a delicacy

In addition to scraps of cakes, you will need:

• any pastry cream, you can use the remnants of the cake or make a new one;
• 1-2 bars of dark chocolate;
• 20 g of vegetable oil, but should be odorless and colorless; refined cold-pressed is best;
• coconut or confectionery sprinkles for decoration;
• sticks for cake pops, they can be purchased in the disposable tableware departments of supermarkets or candy stores.

Preparation:

1. Break the cakes with your hands as small as possible until they are crumbs.

   

   Chop the crumbs to a crumb state

2. Combine with cream and stir. The resulting mass should keep its shape well. If crumbling, add some cream. If it spreads - biscuit crumbs.

   

   A ball of crumb and cream should hold its shape well

3. Shape into balls, make it conveniently with a special ice cream spoon.

   

   Shape into balls with an ice cream scoop

4. Use a cake pop stick to mark the holes in the balls. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours or more.

   

   Mark holes on the balls with a cake pop stick

5. Grind the chocolate and heat it in the microwave for 5-10 seconds. Remove, stir and microwave again. Repeat the process until the chocolate is melted.

   

   Melt and stir the chocolate well

6. Dip a stick in chocolate and insert into the marked hole in the ball. Set aside to freeze and solidify.

   

   Use liquid chocolate to secure the stick to the ball

7. Add vegetable oil to the chocolate for better flow. Place in the microwave for 10 seconds, stir well.

   

   Add vegetable oil, the chocolate will flow better

8. Dip the ball on a stick in chocolate and immediately, until it has frozen, start decorating with coconut flakes or sprinkles.

   

   Dip the ball on a stick in chocolate and sprinkle with coconut

9. Fix the processed ball on a special stand made of plastic or foam to dry and solidify.

   

   Place the balls on a special foam support so that the shell does not get damaged during curing

10. Chill the confection in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before use.

11. You can serve on the same plastic stand or in paper cuffs. And should be stored in the refrigerator.

    

    You can serve cake pops on paper cuffs

If you don't have much time or you just don't want to bother, you can put the biscuit trimmings on a plate with cream, pour over the syrup, add nuts, raisins, chopped dried apricots. And eat it all with a spoon. It will be delicious.

Now you know how easy and simple it is to make Zebra cake. It remains only to be convinced personally of its excellent taste. Enjoy your meal!