Add egg mixture to a butter and beat with the hand mixer until fully combined, about 3 minutes. In a separate bowl lightly whisk eggs, rest of the sugar and vanilla extract. Stop to scrape the sides of the bowl as needed. In a large bowl with an electric hand mixer, cream the butter and half (160 gr.) of sugar on medium speed until smooth, about 2 minutes. Butter an 8 or 9-inch round pan and lightly coat with sifted flour. Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat the oven to 350✯. Below is the demonstration how the zebra stripes are actually done.If you don’t have one, the ¼ cup will do the same effect. It makes the whole process easy, quick and clean. For even zebra stripes I used ice cream scoop.And you have an option to choose the size you want. My absolutely favorite brand is Fat Daddio’s Anodized Aluminum Round Pan with removable bottom or Regular Fat Daddio’s Anodized Aluminum Round Cake Pan. Cakes are always evenly baked, they are durable and relatively cheap. I always recommend anodized aluminum cake pans. They will brown the outside of the cake too quickly. If you see the center of the cake is underbaked, but the top is browning too quickly place an aluminum foil on top and continue baking.Here is a very detailed instruction on How to Melt Chocolate. I always prefer double boiler because it is the safest and best way to treat chocolate. There are two major ways to melt chocolate: microwave and double boiler method.This is the way my mom sometimes did, and it is absolutely delicious. If you don’t want to make chocolate glazing warm 1/3 cup of your favorite jam and spread it on top of the cake.It is delicious, easy to make, easy ingredients and the zebra stripes make this cake sophisticated enough to interest any person. If you don’t have time or strength but want to impress someone this is the cake to make. I swear I thought this cake is very complicated to make but in reality, you get the gorgeous looking cake with fancy zebra patterns, and all of this can be done in one and a half hour, including baking time. Every airy bite makes you want more so be careful with the size of your slice. But because of its lightness, this cake is hard to stop eating. Now, I’m a grown up and supposed to control my cake portion. I used to cut ¼ of the cake, poured a hot cup of tea, turned on cartoons and my mind went far away. The aroma of vanilla combined with chocolate, the air bubbles, and cloudy texture, melting chocolate glazing all of this is combined in one cake. And it looks absolutely stunning.Įvery bite of this cake brings me back to my childhood. Have you ever had a cup of coffee with the perfect melt in your mouth coffee cake? When you take a bite, and the soft air bubbles begin to melt in your mouth, and the smile spreads on your face!? Add a melting chocolate glazing to it and your whole soul will sing a song of happiness. In one way this zebra cake reminds me the coffee cake, texture and taste wise. Oh, and nuts are also optional but my husband is nuts about nuts. And chocolate glazing, because I’m a chocoholic.Added vanilla extract because we didn’t have it back in the Ukraine, only artificial vanillin.Otherwise, this is exactly the same recipe. Despite how fancy it looks, it is absolutely easy to make, and you will be amazed how effortless and fast it is.īecause of the busy schedule, my mom used to make it plain, only sometimes she topped it with jam and nuts. However, once I read my mom’s recipe it sounded simple and really doable. I always thought those stripes are a tough thing to create, and some “special skills” required. I never actually was interested in recreating it. She was baking zebra cake for us all the time. I want to share with you a very simple yet sophisticated Zebra cake with chocolate glazing that my mom used to make us very often. This is not quite traditional Ukrainian cake, but it was a regular guest in my family. I promised you some Ukrainian recipes in my About Page but haven’t posted any yet □.
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