Of course, today in any grocery supermarket you can easily choose a beautiful and delicious cake without any problems. However, the question is not exactly the availability of a certain cake, but in general the fact that despite a solid assortment of shops, it is sometimes much more pleasant to make a tasty treat itself. Especially if this is done for loved ones.
Such behavior is characteristic of very many people, women in particular: for yourself to cook laziness, but for your beloved family, on the contrary, you want to. Today we bring to your attention how to cook a yummy called Zebra. A cake with this name has been tried by many, but not all housewives know how to bake it. And completely in vain, because it is quick to prepare and at the same time tasty, and besides, it looks beautiful and appetizing.
To make a delicious "Zebra" - a striped cake, in other words, we need the following list of products:
- eggs, pieces 5 (+/- 1);
- a couple of glasses of sugar (to your taste);
- one and a half glasses of flour;
- a two hundred gram jar of sour cream (and if you want a cake oily, you can take more);
- salt pinch;
- half a pack of margarine, or you can replace it with butter;
- one and a half to two tablespoons of cocoa;
- two teaspoons of baking powder;
- one gram bar of chocolate for the preparation of glaze.
Half sugar, i.e. one glass, grind with softened margarine until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Then separately you need to beat the remaining sugar and eggs. Flour, also separately, mix with baking powder. Now we mix all this together until an average density test is formed, one that can be stirred with a spoon with almost no effort. Part of the work has been done, our Zebra will be ready soon. The cake is really tasty and simple, you just need not to spoil its cute stripes.
To do this, we separate one third of the dough, pour cocoa into it and mix thoroughly. You can use a mixer for this, but this is completely optional - remember, our mothers and grandmothers baked this cake perfectly without any kitchen equipment.
Next, you need to take a form oiled. First, we pour two tablespoons of a simple dough into it, then one tablespoon of chocolate. We repeat. Repeat again. And so - until the dough ends. The measure "1 spoon - 2 spoons" is not required, it is only important to observe a proportion of one to two, and you determine the width of the strips yourself, at your discretion. Then, at a temperature of 180-200 C, the future Zebra is baked. The cake will be ready in about 40-45 minutes, it remains only to break the chocolate into cubes and melt it in a water bath, and then pour the “Zebra” with the resulting glaze. In addition, you can decorate it with grated white chocolate.
You can also adopt such an option as "Zebra" on kefir. To do this, take a glass of kefir, add a teaspoon of soda. Now you need to stir until foam. Then add the margarine pre-melted in a water bath, mix. We drive in 3 eggs mixed with 300 g of sugar. When the mass becomes homogeneous, add two or two and a half cups of flour.
Further, everything is done according to the same scheme as for the usual “Zebra”, we only divide the dough into three parts (although this is to your taste) and reduce the baking time by 5-10 minutes. You can pour it with the same icing from a bar of chocolate, or you can make a mixture of butter and condensed milk using a mixer - an excellent cream will work. The proportion is one to one.
There are also Zebra cookies, the same striped. This is not to say that it is very different from simple cookies, nevertheless, people often tend to pursue an assortment, and therefore they are more interested in acquiring or preparing something non-uniform.
If you want to treat guests or loved ones with something sweet, to bring the holiday atmosphere into a regular dinner, just bake a striped cake. As you can see, the ingredients in it are the simplest, and to do it very briefly.