Kefir cake is a simple zebra recipe. With chocolate flavor

I have always loved baking zebra cupcakes. This process is very interesting, since the same result is never obtained and you always expect what the cut will be like. How many different "zebras" I baked - these were pies, and cakes, and portioned cupcakes and large cupcakes. Today I will offer another option. big cupcake"Zebra" - on kefir. Such a cupcake is prepared from simple and available products that can be found in every home.

Before you start making a cake, I suggest you immediately prepare necessary products from the list.

Melt and chill butter, add sugar and vanillin, beat the mass thoroughly with a whisk. If desired, butter can be replaced with 100 ml of refined.

Add the eggs to the mixture and beat well again.

Sift flour with baking powder into the dough.

Mix the dough well, pour half of the dough into a separate bowl, and add the sifted cocoa to the remaining mass. Mix the dough. We will get a light and dark dough.

Cover the form with parchment and start spreading the dough on a tablespoon in the center, slowly, giving the dough the opportunity to spread on its own. I started with a light dough and ended with a dark one. We spread until the dough runs out.

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees and bake the Zebra cake for 1 hour. Check readiness with wooden skewer- your oven may need less time, or maybe more. The skewer should come out of the cake dry.

The cooled cake can be sprinkled with powdered sugar, I smeared it. Cupcake "Zebra" on kefir is ready for tasting. Cut it into portions and serve with coffee or tea, milk.

Bon appetit!

There are a lot of recipes for sweet homemade pastries, but how many are there various pies. Today I want to tell you how to cook tasty pie zebra on kefir. I think that almost everyone knows about the existence of such a pie, and they have been preparing it for quite a few years. But after trying several options, I can say with confidence that this zebra pie recipe turns out to be the most delicious and easy to prepare. Now this is one of my favorite recipes, I hope you enjoy it too.

You will spend very little time on preparations, since you do not need to fiddle with the dough for a long time or knead it. Everything is simple here, whipped, mixed, baked. Such a zebra turns out to be quite sweet, so if you do not like a lot of sugar, you can slightly reduce its amount. The whole process of making a zebra pie is shown in the recipe on step by step photos, so even beginners will not have any difficulties. You can also do it, which turns out very tasty. I recommend baking such pastries, because it is so simple, and the taste will not leave anyone indifferent.

Ingredients:

• Chicken egg - 3 pcs.
• Sugar - 2 tbsp.
• Kefir - 1 tbsp.
• Refined vegetable oil - 100 ml.
• Salt - a pinch
• Vanillin - a pinch
• Slaked soda - 0.5 tsp
• Wheat flour - 2 tbsp.
• Cocoa powder - 3 tbsp

Servings: 12

European cuisine

Baking time: 40-45 minutes

Cooking method: in the oven

Calories: 298 kcal per 100 g

How to make a zebra pie

To make a pie, you must first make the dough. Pour sugar into the mixer bowl and beat in three eggs.

I beat for a short time, 2-3 minutes is enough, until a small foam forms.

Then pour in kefir, add vegetable oil, slaked soda or baking powder, salt and vanillin. It is very important that the oil is refined, as on the other you will not get such a result in the end.

Using a whisk, or at a low speed mixer, mix everything. Now I pour in the flour, which I add in one approach and it is advisable to sift it first.

Then, with a whisk or spatula, I mix the flour into the rest of the mass to get uniform consistency. Such batter on kefir suitable for different pies in the oven.

The zebra pie is made two-color, so I divide the resulting dough into two parts, and pour cocoa powder into one.

I stir in cocoa with a spoon and get a beautiful chocolate color.

The baking dish needs to be prepared, for this I grease its sides with a piece of butter, and put a sheet of parchment on the bottom and fasten the form. The dough should be laid out with a tablespoon.

In order for you to get the same zebra pie as in my recipe in the photo, you need to follow the order of laying out the dough. First, I spread 2 tbsp of light dough in the center, then 2 tbsp of chocolate in the middle of the light dough, and so on until the end.

The result is such a striped pattern, but that's not all.

To make the pastries even more beautiful, you need a toothpick, with which I draw lines along the dough from the middle to the edges. This drawing looks like a cobweb.

I bake the cake in a preheated oven, at a temperature of 180 degrees, for 40-45 minutes. I check its readiness with a toothpick, which, when piercing the pie, should remain dry. If so, then it is ready and I take it out of the oven.

I carefully remove the form, parchment and transfer the finished yummy to a plate.

Such a kefir zebra pie turns out to be very lush, tasty and sweet. Be sure to give it a try, as it's worth it.

If desired, you can even make a cake out of it by cutting it into several cakes and smearing sour cream, For example. The recipe is very good and always turns out.

How is it done?! It is this question that arises among those who see the Zebra pie on kefir for the first time in a section.

The bizarre interlacing of multi-colored stripes causes amazement and interest.
And it turns out to be quite easy to do.

We will need:

• 3 eggs;
• 1 st. kefir (preferably fatty);
• 1 st. granulated sugar;
• 100 g (or 1/2 standard pack) butter or margarine;
• 2-2.5 st. l. cocoa powder;
• 1.5 tsp vanilla extract (optional);
• 0.5 tsp baking soda;
• 3 art. flour (may include more).

Cooking:

Break the eggs into a bowl and mix with a mixer with sugar until it is completely dissolved.

Whisk in lush foam not necessary.

Add warm softened butter. You can melt it in microwave oven or in a water bath, but do not boil.

Beat butter with eggs.

Pour yogurt over eggs. It will be better if it first stands for half an hour without a refrigerator.

Add to mix baking soda. It is not necessary to extinguish it with vinegar.

Advice: if the zebra pie is made on non-acidic kefir, soda in the recipe can be replaced with baking powder.

Add flour little by little

Thoroughly knead

Ready dough should resemble in texture good condensed milk or thick sour cream.
If the dough is too liquid, add some flour.

We divide the dough into two parts. It doesn't matter if they aren't exactly the same. Equal parts will give a "Zebra" with an even amount of light and dark stripes.
Add cocoa to one of the parts and mix.

We proceed to the main thing in the Zebra recipe - to the correct filling of the form. We do this by alternating light and dark dough.
To do this, in the form, each time exactly in the center, pour alternately on a spoon of one or the other test.

Grease the mold with a little oil. If you don't have a non-stick pan, grease a regular pan and line it with parchment paper.

With a tablespoon, starting from the center, lay out two types of dough in turn until they run out. Put two or three tablespoons of light dough on the bottom of the form. Put the same number of tablespoons of dark dough in the middle of the light dough.
Don't wait for the previous layer to spread out into shape - continue alternating light and dark dough layer by layer. The mixture will gradually fill the mold by itself.

The larger the amount of each serving, the wider the stripes will turn out. For a classic result, it is enough to take an ordinary tablespoon. The form can be lined with parchment, but it is enough and just to grease with oil.

With very small alternating portions (for example, if you use a teaspoon), the colors may end up blending. The "striped" effect will be lost.

Advice: more thick dough gives clearer lines. But the dough will be less fluffy.

Now we make 5 strips with a toothpick - we draw from the middle to the sides.
Then we draw a toothpick between these strips, but in the other direction - from the sides to the center.

Here's what the cake looks like before it goes into the oven.

Bake the Zebra pie on kefir at a temperature of 180 - 220C. Approximately it will take 35-40 minutes.
Do not open the oven before the top darkens.. The product may fall.

Check for readiness by piercing the center with a dry toothpick. If it stays dry, the cake is ready.

Pull out ready cupcake out of the oven, carefully separate it from the sides of the pan with a thin knife and invert onto a wire rack. Turn it upside down and let cool.
If desired, sprinkle the top of the cake with powdered sugar.

Now let's see how this is done in practice.
Ingredients: 5 eggs 1-1.5 cups of sugar 1 cup of kefir 2 tsp. cocoa 1.5 cups flour 1 tsp. soda 50-100 gr. oils

Consumption of products in the next video on a form with a diameter of 22 cm.

• If the top of the cake is cracked, that's fine. But next time, keep in mind that the temperature was set slightly above the optimum.
• If, based on the Zebra kefir pie recipe, you baked a cake and were going to decorate it with cream, you may have difficulties. The fact is that such a product turns out to be convex. If the “lid” is cut off, then the porous surface can gradually absorb the cream, and beautiful cake you won't get.
  Just flip it over after cutting off the top. But do this only when it has completely cooled down. And you will get perfect flat surface.
• You can bake a Zebra cake on kefir and in a slow cooker. To do this, alternate pouring of the dough is done directly into the bowl. The product is baked in the "Baking" mode for 55 minutes.

Pie "Zebra" on kefir in a slow cooker

About replacing ingredients

Recipe striped cupcake is optional and unchanged. You can exclude butter or margarine replacing it from the composition (with a decrease in the amount of flour). In this case, the dough will turn out more elastic, but less crumbly.

However, the effect crumbly pie can be achieved by replacing part of the kefir with 1 tbsp. l. mayonnaise.

Kefir in the main recipe can be replaced with sour cream while retaining all other ingredients. Flour in this case can also enter a little less.

What is better to bake a Zebra pie - on kefir or on sour cream? It's a matter of taste. Still, using kefir is a cheaper, everyday option. With sour cream, the product turns out to be more moist, saturated.

It's all about the stripes!

Armed with a test of two colors, we get the opportunity to create real masterpieces. Instead of pouring dough into the middle of the mold all the time, you can mark 3, 4 or more “centers”.

Merging, it will form the most bizarre patterns.

You can divide the dough into 3 parts.
Leave one of them white, add a little cocoa to the second, and make the third dark. And the cake will be even more interesting.

By dividing the dough unevenly and adding cocoa to a smaller part and slightly moving the dough with a knife, we will get this effect.

You can also play around with shapes. For example, you can take a special form for baking Bundt cupcakes (with a column or a hole in the middle).

You can alternate colors by moving in a circle or in any other way.

To create a sharper contrast of stripes, you can use black and White chocolate.
In this case, it should be added instead of oil. Melt 50 g of both chocolate in a bath and add to the already divided dough. coconut flakes or powdered sugar will suit such a cake very well.

By alternating the dough in large portions, you can get interesting effect- as in the photo.

Or you can make a zebra with faded stripes. To do this, take a knife and mix with a few slow movements striped dough before baking. Be careful not to overdo it! Otherwise, the dough will acquire a uniform color.

Colored zebra - why not?

Having learned how to bake a zebra cake on kefir in classic version, you can imagine. In cooking, there are many natural and artificial dyes that are harmless to health. You can safely use them.
Your imagination is not limited by anything!

Or tint half the dough with jam, syrup.

Exquisite zebra cake on kefir with strawberries

This recipe differs not only in its color scheme and the use of berries. It is made on a sand substrate. And it's not difficult at all!
For the bottom, you just need to crumble any dark cookie and mix it with a little warm butter. There should be just enough oil to sand crumb no longer dry.
We spread the mixture on the bottom of the mold, lay out fresh or frozen strawberries and pour the dough in the manner described above.
Pink color dough will give Strawberry jam or Strawberry juice.

As you can see, based on the Zebra Pie recipe, you can bake and quick cupcake To morning tea, And gourmet cake to a big celebration.
At the same time, it is very easy to prepare, does not require "complex" ingredients.
Save it to your home cookbook- and he will help you out more than once.

I love it when there is something for tea in the house. And, although flour, they say, is harmful, I can’t deny myself something sweet. Purchased confectionery have a very beautiful appearance, but the taste is not always justified by external beauty - any chemistry, incomprehensible fats and synthetic aromas are felt. homemade baking always more reliable, because you yourself know and see what products you put into it. Therefore, I prefer to bake on my own than to buy. Now, of course, the times have come that you can’t really clear up, because what is ready to buy, what to bake regularly - it turns out to be expensive. Therefore, I try to give preference to economical recipes, such as this Zebra pie on kefir. In the original, it is cooked on sour cream instead of kefir, and you need to put 5 eggs (flour consumption will increase slightly). But in the economy version of the Zebra pie recipe, you can get by with 3 eggs and even fat-free kefir. It turns out quite acceptable for everyday life.

1. To begin with, cut the butter (which, by the way, can also be quite successfully replaced with the same amount of margarine, if it’s a completely cool position), cut into slices and melt in a frying pan.

2. In a container for kneading the dough, combine the eggs with sugar.

3. Add melted butter.

4. Add a glass of kefir.

5. Stir liquid ingredients until smooth.

6. Add soda quenched with vinegar.

7. Pour two glasses of flour.

8. Stir the dough with a spoon, it turns out not too steep, but not too liquid either. It can pour on its own, but very lazily, the density of the dough is about the same as for pancakes. If it's too liquid, add a tablespoon of flour.

9. Now the task is to divide the dough into two equal parts. It is very important to divide the dough in half so that the Zebra pie turns out beautiful from the inside. I didn’t guess a little here, I had to divide the dough again at the end, it’s good that light prevailed, I made it dark. We pour the dough into two containers, it is better to take the same, if any, so that it is visually even.

10. Add three tablespoons of cocoa powder to one half of the dough. If the powder is lumpy, pass it through a strainer.

11. Add 3 tablespoons of kefir to the dark dough to reduce its density, make it more liquid.

12. We prepare a baking dish - I have a regular one for cakes, detachable, with a diameter of 22-23 cm. I smeared the sides of the form with oil, put parchment paper on the bottom. We heat up the oven.

13. Now pour 2-3 tablespoons of light dough into the center of the mold.

14. Pour 2-3 tablespoons of dark dough onto the light dough.

15. Alternate layers until all the dough is over. But each subsequent layer is poured exactly into the middle of the previous one - in the center of the form.

16. We bake the cake in the oven for about 50 minutes, check the readiness of the cake with a wooden toothpick or a match, sticking it in the middle - if the match is wet, in a sticky dough, then the cake inside is raw. My cake burst a little due to a sharp temperature drop: I lowered the temperature very early, and then increased it. Let it bake at high temperature.

17. Zebra pie is ready.

Take the pie out of the mold.

We cut the pie - and inside it is simply beautiful! Striped divorces, exactly the same as on the body of a zebra!

like this striped pie zebra - it also smells very delicious of cocoa! Oh, here it would be walnuts add raisins to it, and it would be generally real birthday cake! Although this is very tasty to eat with milk or tea with lemon. Bon appetit!

A favorite dessert for children - Zebra cake is traditionally prepared with sour cream, but this does not mean that other ingredients cannot be used to prepare treats.

On kefir, the cake turns out to be no less tasty and fragrant, the dough is airy, lush.

Zebra cake on kefir - general principles

The process of making the cake is very easy. A novice cook, and even a child, will cope with this task. All the ingredients needed for the dough are thoroughly mixed. Next, the base is divided into two parts and cocoa powder is poured into one of them, mixed. The whole procedure takes no more than 15 minutes. And then creativity begins.

The cake was called "Zebra" for a reason. The dessert is a pie of bizarre light and dark stripes, reminiscent of the colors of a zebra skin. This is simply achieved. On a sheet greased with oil or lined with parchment, spread the previously prepared dough in turn: a spoonful of dark dough is placed in the center of the baking sheet, in the center chocolate dough lay out a light dough, then dark again, then light, etc., until the base is over.

Then it remains to put the sheet in the oven and wait about half an hour. Further decoration of the cake depends on your imagination. Most often, the cake is simply poured with cream or icing, sometimes the cake is cut and soaked with something. You can layer the cake with fruits, nuts or other fillings.

Recipe 1. Classic kefir Zebra cake

Ingredients:

25 g of salt and soda;

365 g flour;

255 ml of kefir;

225 g sugar;

110 g cocoa powder;

65 g butter.

Cooking method:

1. Set the oven to warm up.

2. Using a mixer, beat eggs with sugar at low power for no more than three minutes.

3. Do not pour cold kefir, add salt and continue to beat for a few more minutes.

4. In the resulting mixture in small portions add flour with soda, mix well with a spoon until a homogeneous, slightly thick consistency.

5. A small amount of dough is poured into another cup.

6. Pour cocoa powder into one half and stir well, and leave the first white.

7. In a greased form, first spread the white mass in the center with a ladle.

8. A brown mixture is poured into the center of the white mass, the same is repeated several times.

9. With a toothpick or other wooden stick, draw lines from the center to the edge.

10. Bake for 30 minutes.

11. Before serving, cool and cut into portions.

Recipe 2. Zebra cake on kefir in a slow cooker

Ingredients:

365 g sugar;

225 g butter;

Flour - 330 g;

Egg - 4 pcs.;

30 g cocoa powder;

15 g of soda;

260 ml of kefir;

45 ml vegetable oil.

Cooking method:

1. Beat the eggs with sugar with a mixer until a fluffy snow-white mass.

2. Pour melted and chilled butter into the eggs, beat a little more.

3. Add kefir, mix everything well with a spoon.

4. Slowly introduce flour and soda into the mass, constantly stirring the dough with a spoon.

5. Knead until a semi-thick homogeneous mass.

6. Divide the dough into two identical parts, pour cocoa powder into one and mix well.

7. The capacity of the multicooker is lubricated vegetable oil.

8. big spoon put in the middle of the container first white dough, then chocolate on top, and so repeat until all the dough is over.

9. Adjust the apparatus to the “baking” mode, time 30 minutes, bake with the lid closed.

10. After the beep of the multicooker, let the cake cool slightly and take it out of the container, cut it into portioned pieces and serve to the table.

Recipe 3. Vanilla cake "Zebra" on kefir

Ingredients:

Kefir with a high percentage of fat - 265 ml;

Sugar - 220 g;

135 g butter;

Cocoa - 45 g;

Half a dessert spoon of vanillin;

Soda - 35 g;

Flour - 385 g;

Vegetable oil - 35 ml.

Cooking method:

1. Eggs are combined with sugar and beat with a mixer until a stable snow-white mass.

2. Pour in not cold kefir, beat for another 2 minutes.

3. Put the butter on a flat plate, put it in the microwave for 1 minute, take it out. Cool and pour into kefir egg mixture, add vanilla, beat a little more.

4. Soda is mixed with sifted flour and slowly poured into the mass in several stages, stirring often.

5. Knead the dough to a consistency like thick sour cream.

6. A little dough is transferred to another container and mixed with cocoa.

7. With a ladle, spread a small amount of chocolate dough in the middle of a greased form, white dough on it, repeat until two masses run out.

8. Using a toothpick, make lines on the surface from the middle to the side walls of the mold.

9. Place the mold in a hot oven for 35 minutes.

10. Turn off the oven, take out the form with the cake and cool slightly.

11. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving, cut into portions.

Recipe 4. Zebra cake on kefir with poppy seeds

Ingredients:

325 g butter;

Medium fat kefir - 245 ml;

Sugar - 210 g;

Poppy - 65 g;

1 handful of cocoa;

Flour - 390 g;

Soda - 20 g.

Cooking method:

1. First, poppy seeds are poured with slightly warmed water and left for a few minutes to swell.

2. With a mixer, beat the eggs combined with sugar for 2 minutes.

3. Melt the butter and pour it into the chilled eggs, beat for another 1 minute.

4. Add poppy seeds to the mass, mix with a spoon.

5. Introduce flour with soda in several stages, while continuously stirring the dough.

6. Divide the dough into two halves, mix one with cocoa, leave the other white.

7. The baking container is covered parchment paper and spread the dough in the middle, alternating brown with white.

8. Place the mold in a hot oven for 30 minutes.

9. After this time, they pierce the cake with a toothpick, if it is dry, then take it out of the oven, if it is wet, bake for another 5 minutes.

10. Before serving, cool slightly and cut into portions.

Recipe 5. Zebra cake on kefir without butter

Ingredients:

465 g flour;

Sugar - 165 g;

Vegetable oil - 135 ml;

Kefir with high content fat content - 255 ml;

Salt, vanillin - 5 g each;

Soda - 45 g;

Acetic acid- 15 ml;

Cocoa - 85 g.

Cooking method:

1. Pour kefir and vegetable oil into beaten eggs with sugar, stir well with a spoon.

2. Add soda, slaked with vinegar, vanillin, salt to the mass and mix everything thoroughly with a spoon.

3. Slowly introduce flour through a sieve.

4. Knead until smooth, tender, slightly thick consistency.

5. Divide the dough into two halves, add cocoa to one and mix well.

6. In a baking dish greased with vegetable oil, spread a tablespoon first with brown dough, then white, again brown, white, and so on, until two halves of the dough are over.

7. With a toothpick, draw lines from the center to the sides of the mold and put in a hot oven, bake for a little more than half an hour.

8. Cool, divide into portions.

Recipe 6. Zebra cake on kefir with strawberries

Ingredients:

Kefir - 230 ml;

340 g butter;

Flour - 385 g;

Soda - 35 g;

Sugar - 170 g;

Egg - 3 pieces;

Strawberries fresh or frozen - 6 pieces.

Cooking method:

1. Beat eggs with sugar until fluffy.

2. Pour in melted over low heat and cooled butter and warm kefir, stir well with a spoon.

3. Pour the sifted flour with soda into the mass, knead with a spoon until a homogeneous tender consistency.

4. Strawberries are rinsed in a colander and turned into a puree-like slurry using a blender.

5. The dough is divided into two halves, laid out in one strawberry puree and mix well.

6. In a baking dish covered with parchment, spread the red mass with a ladle, then white, again red and white, repeat until the dough is over.

7. Place in a hot oven and bake for 30 minutes at a temperature not exceeding 220 degrees.

8. Cool, remove from the mold, cut into small pieces and serve with tea or warm milk.

Recipe 7. Colored cake "Zebra" on kefir

Ingredients:

240 ml of kefir;

465 g flour;

35 g of soda;

230 g of sugar;

15 g each of red, orange and green food coloring;

190 g butter;

40 ml vegetable oil.

Cooking method:

1. Pour melted and cooled butter into a fluffy egg mixture with sugar, stir well with a spoon.

2. Add non-cold kefir, stir again.

3. Introduce sifted flour with soda in small portions, knead the thick dough well.

4. Divide the dough into three equal portions.

5. Food colorings bred in a small amount water and pour each color into its own bowl with dough, mix thoroughly.

6. Lubricate the baking container with oil and put red dough in the middle, then green, then orange, and so on until the end of all parts of the dough.

7. Make a line with a toothpick from the center to the edges of the container and bake in a hot oven for 35 minutes at a low temperature.

8. Cool, cut in small pieces served with tea.

Cake "Zebra" on kefir - filling options

A cake is not a cake if the cake is not filled with something or sprinkled with something. You can not mess around and use the most simple products: powdered sugar, candied fruits, nuts with honey, grated chocolate. And you can experiment and make cream or glaze.

Most simple creams:

Custard (butter, milk, yolks, sugar, flour);

Sour cream (butter, sour cream, sugar);

Cottage cheese (cream, cottage cheese, sugar, nuts, vanillin, gelatin);

Chocolate (plum butter, chocolate, nuts);

With condensed milk (condensed milk, butter, nuts).