The recipe for a cake "Zebra" at home
The zebra cake is a dessert, which has been loved since childhood. In Soviet times it was prepared in every family. It is difficult to imagine a holiday without this significant delicacy. Such popularity was based on the shortage of many products that may have been required for other recipes. And the recipe for a zebra cake is unpretentious, it needs the simplest products, besides, you do not need a culinary syringe and dyes for decoration. After all, for him in the form of poured alternately strips of white and brown dough. And on the cut you can see a quaint striped pattern. Such a treat will please the older generation for nostalgia, and the kids because of the wonderful drawing and creamy taste.
Cake zebra recipe classic
This recipe for zebra cake can be found in Sovietcookbooks. Today zebra recipe is modified in every possible way, adding and changing components. But it is better to begin to master the skills of preparing a classic dessert, and then, at your discretion, to experiment.
Ingredients:
dough:
sour cream - 200 g
eggs - 4 pieces
sugar - 350 g
Butter - 100 g
flour - 2 tbsp.
cocoa - 2 tbsp. spoons
walnuts - 200 g
baking powder.
cream:
sour cream - 200 g
sugar - 100 g
glaze:
sour cream - 2st. l.
sugar - 100 g
Butter - 70 g
cocoa - 2 tbsp. l.
Cooking method:
Dough: rub half the sugar with butter. Add the beaten eggs, sour cream and baking powder, mix everything well with a mixer.
We pour out the flour, knead the dough and divide it into two parts. In one of them we add cocoa.
On the oiled form we spread alternately a multicolored dough, each time in the center on 2-3 spoons, circles will turn out;
We bake at 180 ° С.
Cream is prepared by beating sour cream and sugar.
For the glaze we mix all the ingredients and, with constant stirring, bring it to a boil.
Cooled cake is divided into two parts and smeared with cream between them and top with glaze.
Cooking tips
to make a biscuit well baked inside and not burnt from above, you can cover it with foil;
check the readiness should be a toothpick, pierce the cake and touch the toothpick, if it is dry, then it is ready;
Do not open the oven before the biscuit browns, otherwise it will settle;
sift the flour so that it absorbs oxygen into itself, then the baking will be fluffy;
if the oil is poorly rubbed, then it can be slightly heated to softness, but do not allow it to melt;
you should cool the baking before cutting and lubricating it.
A zebra cake at home is not preparedit is difficult, the main thing is to follow the above tips and step-by-step recommendations. This wonderful dessert can become a favorite in your family, and experiments with it, its shape, pattern and filling are endless.
This treat will become your visiting card,a real decoration of the festive table. If you just love to bother with baking from time to time, then Zebra can be cooked at any time - as soon as such a desire appears. Of course, cooked at home with love cake will be much tastier, more natural and more useful than store. A zebra cake is a great way to express your love for family and friends.
