Sunday 12 October 2014

Zebra Cake Finally!!!


Finally after a few failed attempts to get the zebra prints on my cake.  The lines are more visible. This time round I just used a normal butter cake recipe with added buttermilk & cocoa powder.

If you are using non stick pan. I'll suggest you line with a piece of baking paper, to prevent the batter from spreading too fast. I think this could be the reason that caused my failure previously. 



Alternate the batter to get the prints : 

Alternating batter to fill up the baking pan

Here is the basic butter cake recipe : 

8" baking pan. 

Ingredients :
5 eggs 
250g butter 
250g self raising flour
250g sugar 
1 tsp vanilla extract / essence 
60ml buttermilk
20g cocoa powder 

Methods : 

1. Prepare buttermilk : 60ml of fresh milk & 1 tbsp of lemon juice. Leave for 10 minutes. Make this before you start measuring the ingredients for the cake. 
2. Cream butter & sugar until creamy.
3. Add egg one at a time into batter. Mix well. 
4. Add in the vanilla essence then add in buttermilk to the batter. 
5. Divide the batter equally into 2 portions  into 2 mixing bowls.
6. Add cocoa powder to one of the batter, mix well. 
7. Grease & line the baking pan. I only add a piece of baking paper on my non-stick pan. 
8. Spoon 1 tbsp plain batter in the middle of the pan, then add 1 tbsp of cocoa batter onto the plain batter. Keep alternating both batters until you finished both batters. 
9. Bake in a preheated oven at 175 degree C for 45mins or until cooked. Perform the toothpick test, toothpick should come out clean when cake is fully cooked. 
10. Leave on the cooling rack to cool. 

Chin's notes :
1. You can also make these into cupcakes. Baked in preheated oven at 180 degrees C for 20 mins or until cook. 
2. If you like coffee, you can add a sachet of instant coffee mix to the cocoa batter. 
3. Previously failed to get the visible prints with a different recipe. Here is a link Owl cake ?

Bon appétit !


Made 6 cupcakes with the same batter
Same concept, alternate the batter to fill up the liners







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