Zebra Cake

Zebra Cake is a yummy sponge cake with mixed stripes of two flavors (vanilla and chocolate). Though it looks complicated, it is easy and fun to prepare.

Involve your kids while preparing the cake; its fun to do the layering of both batters to create "Zebra" stripes. After baking, the outcome looks super cool!

Try and enjoy this yummy cake with your family and friends.

PREP TIME

25 mins

COOK TIME

30 mins

TOTAL TIME 

55 mins

                                                                                                                                               

Recipe for Zebra Cake

Recipe type: Cakes

Cuisine: International

Serves - 10 to 12 (approximately)

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour / Maida - 2 cups
Granulated Sugar - 1 cup
Eggs - 4
Vegetable Oil - 1 cup
Milk -1 cup
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Salt -  1/4 tsp
Baking Powder –2 tsp
Cocoa Powder – 3 tbsp (use good quality)

Direction:

Sift together all purpose flour, salt and baking powder; keep aside.

Preheat oven to 180 deg. C and prepare the 9" inch cake tin ; keep aside.

In a bowl, beat oil and sugar till it becomes fluffy and light.

Add eggs one by one and beat it thoroughly. Then add vanilla essence.

Fold in the flour mixture gently.

Now divide the batter into two equal parts.

In one part of the batter, add in the cocoa powder and mix it thoroughly without any lumps.

To prepare the zebra pattern, simply layer the batter on top of each other. Take 1/4 cup  of vanilla batter, place it in center of the pan and put 1/4 cup of cocoa batter on top of it. The batter will spread on its own.

 

Continue the process till both the batter is finished.

Bake on preheated oven at 180 deg C for 30 to  35 minutes. Bake till a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.


Remove from oven and allow to cool completely. Once it is cooled completely, remove cake from pan.

Slice and serve!

(Tri-colour) Check Board Cake

This Check Board Cake recipe comes on this special occasion of 'One Million Page Views'.

I prepared this cake for my elder son Deepak's birthday; I always prefer to prepare the cake myself, for special occasions at home.

Traditional Check Board Cakes comes only with two colours; brown and white. I tried out this cake with the three colours and it came out well!

My friends and kids in the party were surprised to see the tri-colour pattern in the cake.

Here, secret behind the pattern is revealed! Let's check out the recipe.

Ingredients:

Eggs - 6
Milk - 2 ½ to 3 cups
Vanilla essence - 3 tsp
Cake flour - 6 cups
Sugar - 3 cups (powdered)
Baking powder - 3 tbsp
Salt - 2 tsp
Unsalted butter - 1½ cup
Choco chip - 85 grams
Pink / red food colour - 1 tsp

To prepare Cake Flour:

You need to remove 2 tbsp of all purpose flour from the cup and replace 2 tbsp with cornflour.  Cake flour is ready.

Rainbow Cake / 4 Layer Cake / Layered Rainbow Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

This bright, yummy, layered cake is interesting to prepare and perfect for kid's parties. 

I baked this cake for my son's 5th birthday. Though preparing this cake was little time consuming; I thoroughly enjoyed while preparing and outcome was very satisfying.  Though I am not a professional baker; love for baking always insists me to try something new.

It was a big hit among kids; they loved the colorful layers on this cake,  Try and enjoy the happiness of your kids!

Serves - 20 to 25 people

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 350 gms ( 3 cups)

Sugar – 350 gms ( 1¾ cups)

Butter - 350 gms (1½ cups)

Eggs - 6 

Baking powder – 4 tsp 

Vanilla essence – 1 tbsp 

Milk - 100 ml 

Red, yellow, green and blue food colors

Kit Kat Cake

This cake is perfect for any celebration.  I made this cake for my son's birthday party and it was a big hit!  Idea for this cake came from  my co-sister Nancy Therrien, who prepared a similar cake for her son's birthday last year.   

This soft and airy cake recipe is a slightly modified version from of  my Chocolate cup cake recipe which was adapted from Hershey's.

Satisfy your chocolate craving with this yummy chocolate cake.

Ingredients:

All purpose flour – 2 cups 

Sugar – 2 cups (powdered)

Baking powder – 2 tsp 

Baking soda - 1½ tsp 

Salt – ½ tsp 

Cocoa powder - ¾ cup 

Vegetable oil –½ cup 

Egg – 2 

Milk – 1 cup 

Hot Water-  1 cup 

Vanilla essence - 2 tsp

Chocolate Frosting:

Butter - ½  cup

Cocoa powder - ½ cup

Confectioner's Sugar - 3 cup 

Vanilla extract - 2 tsp

Milk - ¼ cup (if required)

Salt -  ½ tsp

Others:

Kit Kat Bar - 2 large packets (9x2 )

M&M's - 2 packets (180 grams)

Satin ribbon

Directions:

For the Chocolate Cake:

Preheat oven to 180 deg C; prepare a 9" baking tin and keep aside.

In a  medium bowl, sift together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Keep aside.

In a separate bowl add oil, egg, milk and vanilla essence and blend until it is mixed well. 

Mix the dry ingredients into wet mixture and beat on medium until mixed thoroughly. Then, stir in hot water (batter will be thin). 

Pour the cake batter into the greased cake tin and bake on preheated oven at 180 deg C for 30 – 35 minutes until a toothpick inserted into center of a cake comes out clean. 

Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.

For the Chocolate Frosting:

Sift together the sugar, salt  and cocoa; set aside.

In a large bowl, cream butter until smooth, then gradually beat in sugar and cocoa  mixture. 

Blend in vanilla and beat until light and fluffy.  If necessary, adjust consistency with milk.

To Assemble The Cake:

Split the Kit Kat's and keep it ready.

Cut the cake exactly in the middle using knife or thread to divide into two layer of cakes.

Place the one layer of cake on the plate / cake board; spread the frosting generously using your spatula or knife and place second  layer of cake over the first.

Spread the remaining frosting over the second layer and also the sides of the cake.

Once you covered your cake with your frosting; start sticking the Kit Kat's around the cake, pressing gently into the frosting.

Wrap a ribbon around the cake to secure the Kit Kat's and fill the top of the cake with M&M's.

Chill the cake for an hour (this will help to set the frosting).  Now the cake is ready for the party.

To serve:

Remove the ribbon and slice between the Kit Kat bars.

I am sending this recipe to Cutchi's Kitchen 100th post Giveway event.