Eggless Zebra Cake Recipe is a mixture of Vanilla and Chocolate Cake prepared by layering the batter to create stripes as it is on a Zebra.
We are on the final letter of the ABC Cooking Series! It's been an amazing journey, planning, and planning and cooking for the entire list of English Alphabets. To make things completed everybody wanted themes. So we had 4 different themes, some even did an amazing job of dedicating each theme to a week. I wouldn't have been able to do that.
My collection of ABC Cooking has been a great learning experience.
I tried my maximum of being true to the recipe or the origin. However as we tend to adapt to our tastes, there might have been some changes. Finally what really mattered in the end, was the fact all the recipes were so liked by all at home.
And yes I managed to keep this marathon a secret from my hubby dear. I am going to break this to him and see how he reacts. Konda has been privy to this and gets excited reading each one.
In terms of being organized and planned, this series made me stretch my extremes. This was the first time I really used all the features that make life easier and enjoyed reading all my fellow BM # 32 buddies. They have always been excellent in terms of their hard work and dedication, however, this edition made it more obvious, their commitment and love to their blogging. Kudos to all of them for a fantastic job!
Now coming to the final letter and the letter of the day Z! I have the famous Zebra cake. So I decided to make Eggless Zebra Cake. Of course, this Eggless Zebra Cake Recipe is something similar to the Marble cake, though the cake ingredients were different. Truth be told, I am not sure about the difference between either. And I didn't research on that. However, I know that these cakes are so cool on the look and tastes great as well.
What is zebra cake?
A Zebra Cake is very similar to Marble Cake, however, while creating a Zebra Cake, the batter is layered by dropping alternate spoons of Vanilla and Chocolate Batter in the baking pan.
I had made this Eggless Zebra Cake many months ago along with Honey Chocolate Chip Cake for Amma's Birthday. As I had said, I wanted to cover two letters but had to use them earlier itself.
So for Z, it is the very pretty Zebra Cake
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When you slice pieces you will find a beautiful zebra pattern.
This was part of the weekly themes done on A to Z
Recipe
Z for Zebra Cake | Eggless Zebra Cake
Ingredients
For the Vanilla Batter
- 1.5 cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 cup Curds / Thick Yoghurt
- 1/2 cup Olive Oil
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 & 1/4 tsp Baking Powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- Few Drops Vanilla Essence
- A Pinch Salt
- 3/4 cup Milk approx
For the Chocolate Batter
- 2 to 3 tsp Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp Instant Coffee powder
- Few Drops Chocolate Essence
Instructions
- Strain the curds through a muslin cloth for 10 mins for the excess water to drain off.
- Beat the sugar well with the curds till the sugar is melted.
- Add baking powder, baking soda and gently mix in the curd sugar mix.
- Next, add Olive oil to the mix and combine well.
- Now add the flour little by little and mix in without over beating it.
- Divide this batter into two halves into two bowls
- In the first bowl add vanilla essence.
- To the second bowl, add the cocoa powder, instant coffee powder, chocolate essence. Mix well.
- Add milk as required to get the batter to drop loosely.
- Preheat the oven to 185 C.
- In a greased baking tin, to get the zebra effect, first pour 1 tbsp of vanilla batter, on top of it pour 1 tbsp of the chocolate batter. The batter will soon start spreading.
- Continue pouring each batter over the other layer.
- Finally, the entire batter will spread out.
- Bake the cake at 185 C for 25 mins.
- Check if the cake is done by inserting a knife and check if the knife comes out clean.
- Let it cool over a rack.
- Cut into slices and serve.
Priya Suresh says
Zebra cake looks super spongy and extremely inviting.. Prefect pattern.
vaishali sabnani says
What a beautiful ending to the marathon.the zebra Cake is fantastic..and a dream..wonder when I would bake...but truly it is amazing.
Keeping the marathon a secret ...wonder how you could do that....do let us know the response on revealing:))))
Thanks for the wonderful mega marathon, we loved it.
Manjula Bharath says
omg fabulous zebra cake looks superb 🙂 looks so yummy !! absolutely irresistible !! well done dear 🙂
Magees kitchen says
Congrats on completing this ABC marathon, wow the cake is really a virtual treat
Nivedhanams Sowmya says
on my to do for quite some time now!! so delicious and yummm
KParthasarathi says
That is a beautiful cake with its line.Congrats for concluding BM creditably
Pavani N says
Such a prettuy looking cake Valli. This will be a hit in our house as well.
Thanks to you for being such a gracious host and being the mastermind behind this ABC BM series.. I had fun reading all your posts 🙂
The Pumpkin Farm says
Valli this is on my to list , lovely step by step, and had such a wonderful marathon, cant thank u enough for setting this..
Priya R says
Zebra cake looks fabulous 🙂 perfectly done
Suma Gandlur says
Love the fabulous pattern there.
Sapana Behl says
O ! I am loving this zebra cake ...looks so delicious !!
Thanks for giving us the opportunity to take part in this wonderful event . Waiting for another edition...
Sandhya Karandikar says
This looks so pretty. I have never tried this one. Must try it soon.
Roma says
You got the perfect stripes. Looks yummy too.
Preeti Garg says
Look super tasty and nice pattern
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
The patterns are so perfect in the cake! Thanks a lot for hosting the mega marathon and looking forward to many more in the coming months.
Chef Mireille says
wow you achieved the perfect pattern...ending the marathon with a bang
Rajani S says
The cake looks superb and marks a great ending to the month long marathon..I am not 100% sure, but I think the difference between zebra cake and marble cake is the patterns. For Zebra cake, you make the concentric circles and for marble cakes, you add the dough on top of each other and then run a skewer to get different patterns..
Anyways, I loved this BM and now looking forward to April!
veena krishnakumar says
Zebra cake looks so perfect and I loved this Bm. Looking forward for more editions!!!
Harini-Jaya R says
Fantastic pattern! I am yet to try my hand with the zebra cake.