Welcome to the 7th day of Baking Mania. Today I thought of trying zebra cake. It’s the combination of vanilla and chocolate flavor. I am not sure if I can call this cake as zebra cake, that’s why included vanilla and cocoa cake. The base recipe was taken from Gayathri’s blog but the measurement got changed. This time not to blame the kiddo it was my fault. I miscalculated while converting from Gms to cups and added ¼ cup of cocoa powder. Also Gayathri recipe calls for 1/3 of cocoa mixture but because of the measurement mistake I took ½ of cocoa mixture and ½ of vanilla mixture. Because of increase in cocoa I had to add more milk too. . I thought it’s going to be sodappal only. But it was pure sheer luck that it turned out ok. As it had more chocolate flavor, it turned it into bite sized pieces and served along with vanilla ice cream and it became a huge hit.
So here is the recipe.
Eggless Zebra Cake / Vanilla cocoa cake
Ingredients:
- All Purpose Flour-2 cups
- Condensed Milk – 1 can / 14 oz
- Baking Powder-2 tsps
- Baking Soda-1 tsp
- Butter-1/2 cup
- Vanilla Essence-1 tsp
- Cocoa Powder- 1/4 cup
- Instant Coffee Powder-1 tsp (I used Bru)
- Milk-1 cup + 1/2 cup + 1/4 cup
- Mix flour, baking powder and baking soda in a bowl.
- Using a hand mixer mix the butter and condensed milk.
- Now add 1 cup of milk and vanilla essence and mix well with the mixer.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter, milk mixture and mix them together till they are incorporated well.
- Divide the portions into two.
- Now start preheating the oven to 350 degree F.
Cocoa Mixture:
- Now sift the cocoa powder and instant coffee powder into one half of the mixture.
- Add 1/2 cup of milk and fold in the batter.
Vanilla Mix:
- Add 1/4 cup of milk to the vanilla batter the other half and mix.
- Grease the cake pan.
- Pour the batters alternately into the pan. Do not press the batter. Let it flow by it self.
- Once all the batter is used up, bake the cake for 40-45 minutes.
- Check with a toothpick. If it comes out clean, then remove the cake from the oven and let it sit on counter until it is easy to handle.
- Let it cool and slice and serve it along with vanilla ice cream.
Alls well that ends well. Looks yummy.
The pattern looks nice Vidhya and the cake must have tasted divine with ice cream.Yum!
Yeah. The ice cream made huge different.
What can go wrong with vanilla & chocolate — whatever you do will turn out yummy!! Lovely zebra cake.
Thats true pavani
Love the marble effect. Looks delicious
:-) :-)
Looks so soft and moist. If not zebra then call it as marble. Whatever the name be the cake looks fantastic…
ha ha.. Thanks a lot and thanks for the recipe :-)
Looks very lovely and you have it done perfectly!
Thanks Sandhya
What matters is if the cake was good..:)..it looks very appealing to me!
ha ha true :-) Thanks
Love the pattern on the cake, tempting.
Thanks you
This cake looks so good!
Thanks.
very well turned out cake
Thanks :-)
Cake look moist and soft. And the zebra swirls look awesome.
Thanks a bunch
Must be yummy. It still looks good and I can see the pattern even after your so called mistake. :)
he he.. Just luck :-)
Beautiful. Can’t wait to make this one:)
Give it try. Let me know how it turned out. :-)
I haven’t tried a cake with condensed milk.. Bookmarking this Sri
Thanks Vidya. Let me know when you try
Oh my this is super creamy and awesome Sri :)
Thanks pa :-)
You got a beautiful zebra pattern and a delicious cake
Thanks Usha
Oh God, Vidhya! I just went through all your recent recipes at once and I died and went to heaven. I want to become good friends with you so that you invite me home and cook me a meal. Can we be friends?
Hi Pepper,
Glad you asked me to check the spam. This comment was sitting there.
Thanks and of course. Aren’t we friends yet??? Plan a trip to CA and you are welcome any time yaar.
Cake with those zebra pattern looks prefect, i want to get a slice rite now..
Sure will send it ;-)
Stunning zebra cake Vidhya. You nailed it so well :)
Thanks a bunch
My son loves his Zebra and he loves watching Madagascar over and over again! I would love to make him a Zebra cake :)
oh great. Give it a try and let me know how it turned out.
May I come over for a piece of cake and a cuppa?
yeah sure sure. Anytime
we call this a marble cake here :) looks good!
yup true. Thanks and Welcome here.
Hi,
Nice recipe. Liked your blog <3
Thanks a lot Sonali. Will check yours too and welcome here.