One of the easiest cake recipes, which even without filling has a bright and unusual taste. His children are especially fond of his appearance. We bring to your attention a list of the 10 simplest classic recipes for the Zebra cake - delicious and unusual cooking options. Let's start with the main one.
Ingredients:
- 5 chicken eggs;
- 2 cups sugar;
- 200 grams of butter;
- 1 cup sour cream;
- 2 cups of flour;
- 2 tbsp cocoa;
- 1 tsp soda.
Beat sugar with eggs. Then add butter, sour cream (with soda) and sifted flour. All this time the mass needs to be whipped. Divide the resulting mixture into two parts and add cocoa to one of them.
Then grease the baking dish with butter and gradually pour a little mixture from different bowls. It should be a strip like a zebra. Bake the cake for 30-40 minutes. You can check readiness with a match or a wooden bayonet. Serve for tea.
10. In milk
If you really wanted a cake, but there is no sour cream in the house, then you can replace milk. This product is almost always in any home. The only thing that flour is needed more than for the classic recipe.
When mixing the dough, make sure that the mixture has the consistency of thick sour cream. By the way, in the future, hot cake can also be eaten along with warm milk with cinnamon.
9. On sour cream
Cake on sour cream it turns out to be very tender and satisfying. This is the most common dairy ingredient for Zebra. It is best to take high fat sour cream, but for those on a diet, low-fat sour cream is suitable. Mix it together with egg whipped and sugar foam, and then add all the loose ingredients. Serve as a dessert with hot tea or coffee.
8. On kefir
Kefir An excellent substitute for sour cream in any baking recipe. Their consistency is almost the same, but since kefir is more acidic in taste, it is better to add an extra pair of tablespoons of sugar to the dough.
Then follow the usual recipe and divide the mixture into two parts. Add cocoa to one of the pieces and gently pour in turn a little mixture into the baking dish.
Children will definitely like your cake, because it looks so original. And because of the simplicity of the recipe, you can cook it every week.
7. On mayonnaise
If your refrigerator has a limited amount of sour cream and is not enough for a standard recipe, you can add mayonnaise. It is better to take light, for example with quail eggs.
Stir mayonnaise with sour cream and add the mixture of sugar and eggs to the whipped foam. Next, follow the usual recipe.
For this option, you can make a sweet icing. The finished mixture is sold in the store and you only need to dilute it in boiling water, or you can make it yourself from chocolate, sour cream, sugar and butter.
Melt the sugar and chocolate in a saucepan over low heat, add sour cream and butter. Lubricate the cake on top and wait until it cools. The icing will be mirrored and not only decorate your cake, but also give it a sweeter taste and chocolate aroma.
6. From biscuit dough
For this option, it is very important to separate the yolks from the proteins. Proteins need to be well beat with a mixer in a lush foam at high speed. Without stopping working as a mixer, start adding the following ingredients, including yolks, to the mixture.
Next, you need to work carefully and only with a spoon, so as not to bring down the foam. Add all the loose ingredients and divide the mixture in half. A cake according to this recipe is airy and light. Can do biscuits in a slow cooker. So they will turn out even more magnificent.
5. With condensed milk
Initially, in a pie with a beautiful and unusual name "zebra" there is always sour cream in the list of ingredients, but our recipe will tell you that it can be easily replaced condensed milk.
First you need to beat the butter with sugar, gradually adding eggs. Then, add the main distinguishing ingredients of this recipe - condensed milk. After the condensed milk is added, you need to add flour, vanillin and a baking powder. Divide the dough in two bowls, add a spoonful of flour in one, and cocoa in the second. Bake in the oven for half an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees.
4. Gentle
Many housewives know that the most tender the cake is obtained from biscuit dough. We have already figured out how to do it. The main thing is not to forget to separate the squirrels from the yolks and whip the lush foam. Sometimes it takes 5-7 minutes, so do not despair after 2-3 minutes, that you do not get enough magnificent dough.
Also use sour cream with a fat content of 20%. During cooking, it is better not to open the oven several times so that the biscuit does not donkey. Note the time and check only after 15-20 minutes. Better yet, use a slow cooker. In the “baking” mode, very light and delicate biscuits are obtained.
As a filling, you can make a light glaze of sour cream, butter and sugar. Melt all ingredients in a water bath and spread on top of the cake. If desired, add white chocolate to the icing.
3. Whip up
Everyone wants to return to childhood, especially for the delicious sweets that our mother or grandmother prepared for us. But in the modern world, with its pace and concerns, standing at the stove for a long time simply does not have the time and energy.
But how to cook something tasty without giving up the cooking process for hours - the answer to this question will be an unusual pie “zebra” that is being prepared hastily and will please all sweet people and tea lovers. In order to create this favorite dessert you will need all the classic components for it and very little time.
There are two ways to make this process even faster. The first is to purchase a special, ready-made glaze that will make dessert a full-bodied cake.
The second offers to bake a pie not in the oven, but in a pan. With the same ingredients and the method of their preparation, the baking process is reduced. It is only necessary to choose a pan with thick walls, but it is worth remembering that the wall thickness directly affects the speed and duration of baking.
2. Curd
You can diversify a cake that is familiar and loved by millions and with the help of very tasty cottage cheese and useful semolina. Fat here does not play any role, you can choose the smallest, if you care about the figure.
Cottage cheese must be made homogeneous with a sieve or mixer. In the resulting curd mass, add semolina, flour, sour cream and a baking powder for the dough. Add eggs and sugar, mix well.
This will be followed by the typical process of dividing the dough into two bowls and adding cocoa to one of them. In a furnace preheated to 180 degrees, the cake is cooked for about 40-50 minutes.
1. Banana
Zebra cake pleases the household and guests with taste and appearance. The classic recipe is recognized even in school years at the lessons of women's works, or technology. There are many options to diversify this treat, I bring to your attention a recipe with the addition of bananas.
After the dough is ready and one half of it is tinted with cocoa, circles of bananas are laid out on the greased baking sheet. Fill the form alternately, then with a white, then with a dark layer, until the dough is dry. We put in the oven preheated to 220 degrees for 30 minutes.
After the dish is ready, melt the butter mixed with cocoa and pour on top of the cake. Ready cake can be decorated with chocolate chips, cream or berries. Enjoy your meal!