Cooking zebra cake at home is a very beautiful holiday recipe. Cake "Zebra" - original biscuit with African patterns

Home baking gives the house comfort and warmth, fills it with pleasant aromas, gives peace of mind, and encourages sincere conversation. A novice cook wants tasty and easy-to-prepare dishes, and a professional sometimes needs to relax on a five-minute pastry. Both of them are familiar with the Zebra cake, which is known for its simple composition, marble appearance, and simple technology.

History of the Zebra recipe

The peak of the popularity of the cake, and sometimes just a pie, falls on the period of the Soviet shortage, when the store shelves were empty, and food was issued on coupons. It was easier with food in the countryside, a private farmstead brought the main products: milk, sour cream, eggs, cottage cheese. Housewives then noticed that a simple Smetannik pie recipe can be diversified by adding a little cocoa to the cake. The pastry turned out to be a bizarre color, white and brown shades replaced each other with overflows. This is how the classic Zebra cake recipe appeared.

In confectionery textbooks, the history of the cake goes back far into the Italian past. Italy is considered the birthplace of confectionery art, although France, Arab countries, and China claim their rights to the origin of the cake. Translated from Italian, the word "cake" will mean something ornate, whimsical, which describes the appearance of confectionery art. The zebra pie is named for its striped resemblance to the wild African animal. And you can safely call it a cake for your rich "inner" world.

Classic Zebra Recipe

The dough according to the classic recipe is similar in ingredients, but the cooking technology changes, a coloring pigment is added (it can be not only cocoa, but also another food coloring).

Components:

• Sour cream - 1 glass;
• Eggs - 5 pieces (large);
• Flour - 2 cups;
• Sugar - 2 cups (can be reduced by a quarter if preference is given to not very sweet pastries);
• Soda - 1 teaspoon (you can use baking powder);
• Butter - 100 g;
• Cocoa - 2 tablespoons;
• Flour in addition for the light part of the cake - 2 tbsp. l.

Step by step preparation:

1. Put eggs, sugar in a bowl for dough and grind with a mixer until smooth, without achieving stable peaks.
2. Gently add butter at room temperature, sour cream.
3. Pour flour, soda and continue to mix with a mixer until smooth.
4. Divide the finished dough into 2 equal parts, one of which is colored with cocoa, and the other is added for uniformity 2 tbsp. l. flour.
5. Lubricate the form with sunflower oil or cooking oil, sprinkle with flour so that the cake comes off easily.
6. Alternately put the light and dark dough with a spoon into the mold so that each serving is in the center of the previous one.
7. To give additional decorative value, you can draw lines with a skewer from the center to the edge and vice versa.
8. Bake in an oven preheated to 200 o C for 30-50 minutes. Check with a wooden skewer or match: the absence of traces of dough indicates readiness.
9. Lubricate the finished cake on top with butter, sprinkle with powdered sugar. For decoration, you can use a template.

Advice! To soften the butter faster, you can place it in foil over a glass of hot water. In 10 minutes. the oil is ready to use.
The classic cake recipe is most popular among beginner confectioners. It's quick to prepare, the ingredients are readily available, and it's easy to mix them up.

Zebra Kefir Cake Recipe

Zebra cake on kefir is porous, the cakes are airy, with numerous bubbles of different sizes. Following the instructions, following the technology step by step, you can get an unpredictable pattern and texture of the cake.

Components:

• Kefir - 250 ml;
• Flour - 2 cups;
• Egg - 3 pcs. (large);
• Chocolate - 50 g (bitter or milk to taste);
• Cocoa - 2 tbsp. l.;
• Soda - a pinch;
• Salt - 1⁄2 tsp

Cooking:

1. In a deep bowl, beat eggs, sugar with a blender until smooth.
2. Pour in kefir, add salt, continue beating at medium speed.
3. Using a sieve, sift the flour and soda, mix until the consistency of liquid sour cream.
4. Divide the dough into 2 equal parts, add cocoa to one of which, and the same amount of flour to the other.
5. Line a baking dish with parchment or foil (silicone can be left unwrapped).
6. Alternately lay out the dark and light part of the dough in the center of the form.
7. Put in an oven preheated to 180 o C for 35-50 minutes.
8. Cool the finished cake, pour over melted chocolate.

Following the recipe, the Zebra cake on kefir turns out to be airy, and chocolate decor will help to add sophistication.

Microwave Zebra Recipe

The specificity of the microwave oven does not give the bakery the feeling of bread, the dishes are more like pudding, but the taste is not inferior to classic recipes. Zebra cake recipe in the microwave comes without sour cream.

For 6 servings you will need:

• egg - 7 pcs.;
• flour - 150 g;
• sugar - 150 g;
• water - 100 ml;
• cocoa - 2 tbsp. l.

Cooking:

1. Beat eggs with sugar with a mixer at medium speed until completely dissolved.
2. Pour in water, add flour, mix everything.
3. Divide the dough into 2 parts, one of which is colored with cocoa.
4. Line an ovenproof microwave oven dish with parchment paper. This will speed up the process of extracting the cake.
5. Alternate the dough on a spoon, spreading it in the center, forming striped rings.
6. Bake in the microwave at medium power for 10-15 minutes, check the readiness of the core, it should be baked.

Advice! The top can be decorated with a toothpick, but the structure of the leather will hide the ornament, so the choice of decor is up to the hostess.

Zebra with condensed milk and bananas

Adding a Zebra cream cake recipe with condensed milk and bananas will help add solemnity. For this, biscuit cakes are prepared, a tropical cream of condensed milk and ripe bananas is mixed. This zebra is without sour cream, so the main ingredient of the classic recipe is not added.

For 12 servings:

• 4 eggs;
• 200 g of sugar;
• 1.5 st. flour;
• 1 tsp slaked soda (baking powder);
• 2 g vanillin;
• 2 tbsp. l cocoa.

For cream:

• bank of condensed milk;
• 2 ripe bananas.

Cooking instruction:

1. Beat eggs and sugar until white in a deep bowl.
2. Add soda or baking powder, continue whisking. The mass should double.
3. Gently sift the flour directly into the bowl, mix until smooth.
4. Divide the dough into 2 parts, add cocoa to one, the same amount of flour to the other.
5. Alternately spread light and dark dough with a teaspoon, forming frequent rings.
6. Bake at 200 oC for 30-45 minutes, depending on the type of oven, mold material.
7. While the cake is baking, beat the cream of condensed milk and bananas with a mixer.
8. Cut the cooled cake into 2 parts, coat with cream, let stand in the refrigerator for 2-5 hours for impregnation.

Exquisite, tropical zebra cake is easy to make at home. Guests will be satisfied, and children will ask for more.

Curd Zebra Recipe

It will help to diversify the children's afternoon snack, the basis of which consists of cookies, and the filling of curd mass and cream.

Ingredients:

• 500 ml cream 38% fat;
• 200 ml of milk;
• 100 g of sugar;
• 80 g pudding instant;
• 250 g of fine-grained cottage cheese or curd mass;
• 25 pcs. biscuit chocolate cookies;
• chocolate for decoration.

Step technology:

1. Mix cream, 1⁄2 milk, pudding, sugar with a mixer. Add cottage cheese and mix until smooth. The cream is ready, biscuit cookies will become the bread base.
2. Fill the form three-quarters with cream. Dip the biscuit in milk, lay in several rows, drowning in cream. An inhomogeneous two-tone texture will appear in the section.
3. Top the biscuit with the remaining cream.
4. Place the resulting cake in the freezer until completely solidified.

Ready dessert can be eaten as ice cream immediately from the freezer, or as a cake, letting it thaw in the refrigerator.

The choice of how to make a zebra cake is up to the pastry chef. The presence of food in the refrigerator, the taste preferences of the family, the solemn atmosphere or home tea drinking will affect the recipe. Zebra cake with sour cream, prepared in the best home traditions, will remain a classic recipe.

Zebra Cake Video Recipes

Zebra cake is a culinary bestseller from the times of the Soviet shortage. And even now they can be a great surprise for everyone ... if cut.

Cake "Zebra" - not just delicious, but very tasty - in the context it looks like a zebra! I swear you will enjoy the dumbfounded look of your guests when you treat them to this cake. At first they will look at the intricate vertically striped biscuit with bewilderment, and then they will give up and ask: “How did you do it ?!” I usually leave them guessing on this for the rest of the tea party. And if they don’t guess, I reveal the secret to them and give them the recipe. None of my guests have ever guessed!

Ready to start surprising? Then go to the store. Here is a list of what we need to bake a zebra cake:

• 200 g margarine
• 200 g granulated sugar
• 200 g sour cream (15 or 20%)
• 2 cups flour (glass volume - 200 ml)
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 2 tablespoons Golden Label cocoa
• Vanillin sachet

Zebra Cake - Recipe:

1. Pour sour cream into a bowl, add soda, mix and leave. Sour cream will increase in volume - keep this in mind when choosing a bowl.

2. Melt margarine in a saucepan, dissolve sugar in it. When it cools down a bit, take a mixer and start beating this mass, adding eggs one at a time. The egg is mixed - we break the next one there, etc.

3. Pour sour cream into the dough and continue to beat.

4. Gradually pour flour, vanillin into the same place and mix the dough until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

5. Pour half of the dough into a separate bowl, add 2 tablespoons of cocoa there and mix.

In one bowl we got a light dough, in the other - a dark one.

Now the fun begins. At the bottom of a round shape with high sides we put an oiled circle of paper. We categorically do not smear the edges of the mold with oil, otherwise the biscuit will rise ... and slide back “like clockwork”, only without “how”. This is one of the secrets of a good fluffy biscuit: do not grease the walls of the mold so that the rising dough has something to cling to.

We take two spoons - for each test our own and start making a cake. How to pour the dough for a zebra cake:

strictly in the center of the form put 1 spoon of light dough. Slightly shake the mold so that the dough spreads slightly. Now strictly in the center on top of the white put a spoonful of dark dough. Shake the form again. Again we put a spoonful of white dough, then again a spoonful of dark one and do this until the dough runs out. Remember the main thing: we put each new spoonful of dough strictly in the center of the form - otherwise it will turn out not a striped zebra, but a spotted giraffe.

Zebra cake is baked in a preheated oven at a temperature of 180-200 '. Readiness is checked by piercing the cake with a match: if it comes out dry, the cake is ready.

We take it out on a dish and pour it with chocolate icing. How to make chocolate icing? Very simple.

Chocolate icing - recipe:

• 4 tablespoons of sugar
• 5 teaspoons cocoa
• 3 tablespoons of milk
• 10 g butter

Mix everything except oil, bring to a boil over low heat. Boil for 2 minutes, stirring constantly with a spoon. Add butter, remove from heat and quickly pour over the cake until the icing has set. Eat with pleasure and don't forget to make a wish if you try this cake for the first time. And may there be more light stripes on the zebra of your life 🙂

© Text and photo by Noory San.

P.s. I don’t know about you, but after a sweet cake I always want something salty or spicy. Lobiani flatbreads will do! 🙂

Looking for a recipe for a special occasion or a family celebration? Or maybe you want to please a loved one? Prepare the Zebra Cake. It is not only nutritious, but also very tasty. And its appearance will not leave guests indifferent, it will cause a considerable amount of surprise and enthusiastic exclamations.

History of dessert

The name of the master who first created 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 shortages and the absence of any excesses among the majority of the country's population. However, the main ingredients for the pie could be bought. 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

In cakes, cakes of various types are quite often used. And there is nothing unusual about this. But in order for two types of dough to be combined in one cake, and even to form bizarre stripes resembling the skin of an animal of the same name - this, you see, is not often seen. Usually, everyone who tries such a pie for the first time wonders: how did she manage to do this? It's actually very, very simple.

1. To begin with, you will need two types of dough: light and dark. It should be liquid, but not too much so that it slowly spreads, but the layers do not mix. The consistency is similar to sour cream. The ingredients of these two types of dough may be different. But you can use the same, divided into two parts, in one of which add cocoa powder to give a chocolate brown color. This is how housewives cooked cakes in Soviet times. The main condition is to create a contrast of layers. And this is the first secret.

   For the preparation of the cake, 2 types of dough are used: light and dark

2. It is better to take a baking dish with removable sides. So the finished cakes will be easier to remove from the mold. Line the bottom with parchment paper. Do not grease the side part so that the cakes are more magnificent. Otherwise, in the literal sense, they will slide down "like clockwork."

   

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

3. The main secret is the way the test is laid out. First you need to put 2-3 spoons in the very center of the form. Light or dark, whichever you prefer. Slightly shake the mold in different directions so that the dough spreads a little. Sometimes the bottom is completely covered with the first layer, but this is not necessary.
4. Then put 2-3 tablespoons of the second type of dough in the center of the mold. It is no longer necessary to tilt the form, the dough will disperse by itself.

   

   Spread the dough 2-3 tablespoons in the center of the form, alternating layers

5. Alternating light and dark layers, lay out all the dough of both types in 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 a mold, it will look something like this

6. In the oven, preheated to 160–180 ° C, put the form with the dough for 40–60 minutes. For the first half hour, try not to open it, the dough may sit down. Check readiness with a match or a toothpick. Pierce the cake and see if there is any raw dough left on the wooden surface. If not, the cake is ready. Otherwise, keep the cake in the oven for another 3-5 minutes, and then check again.

   

   Ready cut pie

Zebra doesn't have to be black and white. It can be made, for example, three-color. To do this, divide the dough into three equal parts. Leave one unchanged, add cocoa to the other, and heat-soluble food coloring to the third.

And it looks like a tricolor "Zebra"

Which cream to choose

There is no special cream prescribed by the dessert recipe. You can cook any one you like. For example, custard, creamy or cottage cheese. You can use the budget option, soak the cakes with jam or homemade jam. Or even do without impregnation, serving as a pie for tea. Consider two options that were widely used in Soviet times and go well with biscuit baking.

Sour cream lemon

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

Ingredients:

• 500 g of sour cream with a fat content of 33%;
• 1 st. powdered sugar;
• 1 lemon.

Cooking:

The cream can be made without lemon, then it will be just sour cream. For flavor, add 5-10 grams of vanilla sugar. And in the dough for cakes - a third of a teaspoon of soda. It neutralizes the acid found in sour cream and lemons. If this is not done, the finished cake will be dense and heavy, as if unbaked.

From condensed milk

There are two options for preparing cream: from canned milk as it is, and boiled. We will look at both methods. In addition, condensed milk can be replaced with similar canned products: cocoa, cream, coffee or Butterscotch.

From canned condensed milk you can make a very tasty cream

Ingredients:

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

Cooking:

1. Place a can of condensed milk in a saucepan without opening. Pour cold water, bring to a boil and cook over moderate heat for 1.5 hours. It is important that the jar is completely covered with water. It is better to take a large cooking pot so that there is more water. Do not leave the process unattended. If the water boils away, the jar left at the bottom of the pot will explode, and the condensed milk will scatter all over 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 this recipe.

3. After one and a half hours, drain the water from the pan, and leave the jar of 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, points 1 and 3 are skipped. Boiled condensed milk has a different, richer taste. It is thicker in texture and brown in color. Many people prefer this option. But to decide, you need to try both recipes.

   

   It looks like boiled condensed milk

5. Beat the butter until white with a mixer.

   

   Butter must be beaten well with a mixer

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

Video: cream of condensed milk and butter

How to decorate

As with the choice of cream, it all depends on personal preferences and imagination. If the cake has not been soaked with cream, the decoration of the dessert can be simplified by lightly sprinkling the surface with powdered sugar. It will look decent, and labor costs are minimal.

Zebra pie can be sprinkled with powdered sugar

If the cake is 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 try it more. And yes, it lifts the spirits. 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: from dark and white chocolate.

You can decorate the cake with stripes of chocolate and white icing.

dark frosting recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 st. Sahara;
• 3 art. l. cocoa powder;
• 5–6 art. l. milk;
• 100 g butter.

Cooking:

Video: preparing chocolate icing

white frosting recipe

Ingredients:

• 10 g of white chocolate;
• 100 g of powdered sugar;
• 0.5 st. sour cream 33% fat;
• 100 g butter.

Cooking:

Paint a white pattern over the black glaze. And let there be more light and bright stripes on the cake, as in life.

Beautifully decorated cake creates a good mood

Zebra Cake Recipes Step by Step

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 layers 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 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 of 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

Cooking:

1. Prepare the dry mixture: for this, combine the flour with baking powder and soda. These components will help the dough rise, make it fluffy and airy.
2. Add eggs to a bowl with sugar and beat with a mixer until fluffy.

   

   Combine eggs and beating sugar in a separate bowl

3. Combine the sugar-egg mixture with softened butter. Blend with a mixer until smooth. To make it easier to stir, the butter can be cut into smaller pieces.

   

   Add softened butter and beat with a mixer

4. Then add sour cream and mix well again.

   

   Continuing to beat, add sour cream

5. Add the dry flour mixture in small portions to the 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. To make the chocolate dough the same consistency as the white one, add milk to it.

   

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

7. Put the dough on the form, alternating dark and light layers. Put in an oven preheated to 160 ° C and bake until cooked. Then cool to room temperature and remove from the mold.

   

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

The finished cake can be soaked in sugar or fruit syrup. You will get a moist biscuit with a rich taste. If you plan to cover it with cream and want it to be perfectly even, cut off the protruding top of the cake. Then soak with syrup and spread the cream. The cake will look professional. And so that the trimmings do not disappear, prepare cake pops from them.

Video: Classic Zebra Cake Recipe

sugar syrup

Ingredients:

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

Cooking:

Alcohol can be added to the finished syrup if desired: cognac, liquor or rum. For 50 ml of water 1 tablespoon. The temperature of the syrup at the time of addition should not be higher than room temperature, otherwise the alcohol will evaporate and the aromatic properties will be lost.

Cognac, liquor 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 of sugar;
• 1 st. 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 a knife.

Cooking:

If you need a large cake, it is better to bake 2 or even 3 cakes. For each of them, trim the top so that it is not convex. This will allow you to carefully place them on top of each other. Soak with syrup first and spread the cream on the bottom layer. Put the second cake on top and repeat the procedure. Apply cream on the side and decorate the finished dessert with icing. It is advisable that the cake stand in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours before serving.

If you need a big cake, bake 2 cakes

Video: how to bake a Zebra cake on kefir

With cottage cheese and chocolate

Ingredients for the chocolate part:

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

For the curd part:

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

For decoration: powdered sugar.

Cooking:

Video: original Zebra cake with cottage cheese

In a slow cooker

Ingredients:

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

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

Cooking:

1. Break eggs into a bowl and add sugar.

   

   Whisk eggs and sugar in a separate bowl

2. Beat the mixture with a mixer. The better this is done, the more fluffy the dough will be. Ideally, the mass should increase in volume by 2-3 times.
3. Pour in vegetable oil and mix.
4. And also add 1 cup flour and baking powder.

   

   Baking powder added to the dough will make it fluffier

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

   

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

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

   

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

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

   

   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.
   

   

   Grease the multicooker bowl with oil

9. Put the dough in the center of the form by 2-3 spoons, alternating colors.

   

   Put the dough strictly in the center of the multicooker bowl

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

    

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

11. You can draw a drawing if you wish. To do this, draw lines from the edge to the center with a wooden stick. The dough will move slightly in the direction of travel. Then you can draw the lines in the opposite direction: from the center to the edge. So, due to the displacement of colors, you can create interesting patterns. Draw lines in such a way that the stick passes in depth through all layers.

    

    You can get creative and make an interesting drawing

12. Close the multicooker lid. On the control panel, select the “Multipovar” or “Baking” mode 125 ° C and set the time to 1 hour, press “Start”.
13. Remove the finished cake and cool on a wire rack. Due to the air circulation from above and below, it will cool faster. At this time, you can start preparing the glaze.

    

    The baked pie will keep the pattern

How to make frosting

Ingredients:

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

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

Cooking:

Video: delicious two-color pie in a slow cooker

How to use biscuit scraps

You can make your own cake pops at home.

From unnecessary leftovers, you can cook this delicacy yourself

In addition to scraps of cakes, you will need:

• any confectionery cream, you can use the leftovers from the cake or make a new one;
• 1-2 bars of dark chocolate;
• 20 g of vegetable oil, but should not have a smell and color; cold-pressed refined is best;
• coconut flakes or confectionery sprinkles for decoration;
• sticks for cake pops, they can be purchased in the disposable department of supermarkets or candy stores.

Cooking:

1. Break the cake cuts with your hands as finely as possible to the state of crumbs.

   

   Grind the slices of cakes to the state of crumbs

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

   

   A ball of crumbs and cream should keep its shape well

3. Form balls, make it convenient with a special spoon for ice cream.

   

   Shape into balls using an ice cream scoop.

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

   

   Mark holes on the balls with a cake pop stick

5. Chop the chocolate and heat it in the microwave for 5-10 seconds. Take it out, stir and put it back in the microwave. Repeat the procedure until the chocolate is melted.

   

   Melt and stir chocolate well

6. Dip the stick in chocolate and insert into the marked hole in the balloon. Set aside for it to harden and harden.

   

   Using liquid chocolate, secure the stick to the ball

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

   

   Add vegetable oil, the chocolate will spread better

8. Dip a ball on a stick in chocolate and immediately, before it hardens, start decorating with coconut flakes or sprinkles.

   

   Dip a 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 harden.

   

   Put the balls on a special foam stand so that the shell is not damaged during solidification

10. Chill the pastry in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before using.
11. You can serve on the same plastic stand or in paper cuffs. And it should be stored in the refrigerator.
    

    

    Cake pops can be served on paper cuffs

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

Now you know how easy it is to make Zebra Cake. It remains only to see for yourself in its excellent taste. Bon appetit!

Zebra cake is one of the most popular homemade desserts. It is very tasty, original, and at the same time it is prepared easily and quickly from available products. However, you can diversify your favorite pastries by changing certain ingredients or the method of preparation. We offer you some interesting recipes.

Classic Zebra Cake

The classic version is "Zebra" on sour cream.

A traditional biscuit is prepared in the following sequence:

1. 5 eggs and two glasses of sand are mixed in a cup and beaten with a fork or mixer.
2. 100 g of butter / margarine dissolves on low heat or in a microwave oven.
3. Sour cream (1 tablespoon) is added to the melted butter and mixed well.
4. Gently pour in two cups of sifted flour. As a baking powder, a teaspoon of quick soda is added.
5. The dough is laid out in bowls, cocoa (3 tablespoons) is added to one of them.
6. A baking sheet is being prepared - greased with vegetable oil.
7. The dough is laid out according to a special technology with alternating light and dark parts - first a tablespoon of one, then another, etc.
8. The oven is heated to 160-200 ° C, the cake is baked for 40 minutes.

The readiness of the cake is controlled by a match or a toothpick.

Recipe for sour cream and condensed milk

Sweet tooth can be advised to add additional condensed milk to the dough.

In this case, the dough is prepared as follows:

1. Beat a glass of sour cream, half a can of condensed milk, half a glass of sand and a half glass of flour. Add 1 tsp. quick soda.
2. Divide the dough in half, add one and a half tbsp to one of the parts. spoons of cocoa powder.
3. In a baking sheet greased with butter (1 tbsp is enough), place portions of white and brown dough alternately.
4. Bake in the oven at 200°C. Readiness to check with a wooden toothpick or other stick.

Cool the hot cake, grease with jam or cream.

Delicate cake on kefir

You can also use kefir instead of sour cream. "Zebra" on kefir has a particularly delicate taste.

1. In a deep container, prepare a mixture of 3 eggs and sugar (1 tbsp.).
2. Add to a well-stirred mass 250 ml of kefir, 2 tbsp. flour and soda. All this is thoroughly knocked down with a mixer.
3. Then pour half of the composition into another container, pour cocoa powder (2 tablespoons) there, which will color the dough in chocolate color.
4. Lubricate the biscuit mold with oil and alternately lay the prepared compositions - first white, then brown. The result should be a beautiful "striped" pattern in the form of circles.
5. We put this “work of art” in the oven and wait 40 minutes.

Zebra is a fairly simple and tasty cake. Every housewife must have heard about this delicious dessert. As you can see, it turns out a rather unusual striped dessert, which will be appropriate not only for home tea drinking, but which can even be served to guests.

You can cook our cake in the oven or with the help of our electric assistants, for example, you can use the slow cooker. We have made for you a step by step recipe that will facilitate the cooking process for you. The components that make up the cake are quite standard, every housewife has them available.

Classic zebra cake with step by step photos

The first recipe we will have is the classic version of the preparation of "zebra".

It is easy to prepare and will take you a little time.

• cocoa 2 tbsp
• flour 250 g
• eggs 4-5 pcs.
• butter 100 g
• sugar 250 g.
• sour cream 250 g.
• baking powder 2 tsp or in extreme cases, soda hydrated 0.5 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. First of all, we beat the eggs and sugar. Sugar for this item you need to take half the norm, the rest will still come in handy later. If you do not have a mixer, then first mix the sugar with the butter, and only then add the eggs and mix thoroughly.
2. You can immediately add baking powder for a more airy dough of our cake. If you like nuts, then you can safely fill the dessert with them. It is worth noting that it is better to use soda as a fallback, baking powder for the cake is better.
3. Now add flour in small portions, mix well so that there are no small lumps. Keep an eye on the dough so it doesn't get too thick.
4. Our main task has come - to make it look like a real zebra. To do this, we divide our dough in half and add cocoa to one part. You can use food coloring and make a completely different coloring of the cake, in which case you choose the colors yourself.

Preparing for baking:

1. First you need to grease the form with vegetable oil. If you decide to make a cake in a slow cooker, then you also need to grease the bowls with oil. The silicone mold should not be processed.
2. If you want to get a beautiful striped pattern, then lay out the dough gradually. We will start from the center, put 3 tbsp. brown dough, on top of a couple of tbsp. light.
3. Our dough turns out to be a bit sparse, no matter how much we want it - it will spread slowly. Do not worry about this, because the edges of the colors will not mix with each other. Now, according to the given scheme, we fill the entire container with dough. You can make a gossamer pattern by running a knife across the dough from the center to the edges.

Cake Baking:

Our zebra will bake for approximately 35 minutes at 180 degrees. As we described earlier, you can cook our cake in a slow cooker. You need to activate the "Baking" mode, in which case the cooking time of our pie will be about an hour, maybe 10 minutes more.

Our cake is ready to eat, but if you are not satisfied with this appearance, then try to supplement it with something. The simplest, but very successful addition will be cakes, which will make our dessert more volume.

It will take only a couple of cakes or even one that can be divided into two. Make a cream that will connect the cakes. There are a lot of cream options, but we suggest you make the simplest one, which includes sugar and sour cream. You just need to beat these ingredients and then sprinkle them with vanilla sugar.

You can add some frosting if you like. To make it, you first need to take the butter and melt it in a separate bowl. Then add milk and sugar. To give a shade of cream - add cocoa. Our pie is now complete. It tastes much better with cream, so be sure to repeat this recipe and you won't regret it.

Enjoy your meal!

We have a few more Zebra recipes that we will tell you now!

With honey, candied fruits and apricot cream

A pie with such a filling has a delicate armat and a very pleasant taste. This dessert is perfect for any meal.

• semolina 200 g.
• eggs - 6 pcs.
• cocoa 25 g.
• honey 200 g
• baking powder - 5g.
• walnut 70 g.
• candied fruits to your taste 60 g.
• cinnamon half tsp
• rum (in my case, it's cognac) - 2 tbsp. spoons

• apricot jam 100 g
• eggs - 2 pcs.
• butter 120 g.
• milk 0.75 l.
• honey 1 tbsp
• sugar pud and flour, 0.5 cups each.

Cooking process:

1. Separate the yolks from the whites.
2. First of all, you need to beat the yolks.
3. Bringing them to a foamy state.
4. We mix honey, soda, cognac and candied fruits with them. Beat the resulting mass again.
5. Now we divide the resulting mass into two equal parts. One of us will be filled with cocoa 25 grams or 5 tablespoons, and the second with chopped nuts.
6. Beat the egg white and semolina until foamy, the resulting mass should be evenly distributed over two parts of the dough and mix.
7. Lubricate the form with vegetable oil and combine all parts of the dough in it.
8. Set the temperature to 180 degrees and bake the cake.
9. Then the cake should be allowed to cool and divided into two layers.
10. It's time for the cream. Mix sugar with eggs.
11. Next, combine with flour.
12. Put this mass into boiling milk and bring to a boil and cook it until it becomes thick.
13. Now add honey, butter and jam, again make a homogeneous mass.
14. Now we soak the cakes with ready-made cream and make a cake

I do not make icing, after cooking I divide the cream into two equal parts. I add cocoa to one and just we did watering from above alternately. A spoonful of white, a spoonful of chocolate.

Creamy coffee zebra

The recipe is quite simple, you will get a very original cake. We will not use expensive products so that there are no unnecessary troubles. You will be surprised by the beauty and taste of the cake.

For coffee dough:

• sugar 1 tsp.
• ground coffee 50-60 g.
• milk 0.5 tsp.
• flour 1 hour
• water 0.8 h.
• egg white 1 pc.
• salt on the tip of a knife.

For butter dough:

• sugar 1 tsp.
• sour cream 0.2 l.
• white flour 1 tsp.
• butter 200 g
• slaked soda half tsp

Cooking method:

1. Let's start making coffee dough. Fill the glass ¾ full and brew coffee. After that, add cocoa and mix it well into coffee.
2. Cool the egg white and beat it with salt until foamy, then add sugar and beat the mass again until foam forms.
3. Mix coffee-based liquid with milk, then mix it with protein, beat the mass again. Now add flour and mix well. The dough should not be very thick. Add a tablespoon of water to make it more liquid.

Making butter dough

1. First, sour cream must be mixed with butter, which we must knead in advance. Beat egg white with sugar until foamy, sweeten the mass again and beat. Pour the mass into the liquid that you made earlier. Add flour with soda and knead the dough.
2. We put the dough on the form, pre-lubricated with oil. We put the layers in order.
3. We send it to the oven for 25 minutes, while the temperature should be 180 degrees.

Cottage cheese zebra without flour

When you are on a diet, are you afraid to try something sweet? You should not do this, because a light dessert, on the contrary, will be useful. How to make a delicious and easy cake, you can find out further.

• eggs 2 pcs.
• semolina 4 tbsp
• low-fat cottage cheese 0.5 kg.
• sugar 4 tbsp
• milk 150 ml.
• salt and vanilla on the tip of a knife.
• cocoa 1 tbsp complete.

1. Beat the eggs in a mixer, add the mass to the cottage cheese along with sugar and vanilla. Mix until smooth.
2. Now pour milk and add semolina. We start kneading the dough.
3. We divide the semi-liquid dough into two equal parts, add cocoa to one of them.
4. Lubricate the baking dish and lay out the different layers in turn.
5. We send the cake to the oven for 30 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.