Zebra cake classic Soviet time

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a classic Soviet Zebra cake? Prepare the products. In order for the biscuit to rise well, all the ingredients must be at room temperature. Therefore, take them out of the refrigerator in advance. Melt the butter in any way, it should cool down by the time the eggs are beaten. Wash the eggs and dry them with napkins.

2. Step 2:

   

   Take a bowl, sift flour into it. Sifting saturates it with oxygen, so that the baking will be more lush and airy. Add baking powder, salt and vanilla. Mix the ingredients. Please note that you may take more or less flour than me.

3. Step 3:

   

   In a separate bowl, break the eggs. add sugar. Lightly whisk them with a whisk, without much fanaticism. They should just become well mixed.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour the cooled melted butter into the beaten eggs. Add sour cream (it should be fresh, natural, high-quality and thick enough).

5. Step 5:

   

   Mix all the ingredients well. The mixture should become completely homogeneous.

6. Step 6:

   

   Pour the egg mixture into the flour. Gently mix both mixtures with a spoon. Stir until the lumps completely disappear.

8. Step 7:

   

   Divide the dough into two equal parts, pouring part into another bowl. Add cocoa to one of them. Mix it up.

9. Step 8:

   

   Take a baking dish. I have a detachable one, with a diameter of 20 cm. The cake turned out to be perfect in height. In a wider form, the cake will turn out to be low. Lubricate the sides of the mold with vegetable oil, cover the bottom with parchment. Start spreading the dough in the center of the mold with a tablespoon. A spoonful of light dough, then a spoonful of brown in the center of light, and so on.

10. Step 9:

    

    Gradually, the lower layers of the dough will begin to spread and take up the entire shape. You will see how the stripes will form. Continue to spread the dough until it runs out.

11. Step 10:

    

    If desired, you can make a pattern on the cake with a toothpick. To do this, swipe it from the center to the edges, as if dividing the pie into 8 equal parts, and then vice versa, from the edges to the center, dividing the resulting 8 parts in half.

12. Step 11:

    

    Bake the cake in the oven, top-bottom mode, at a temperature of about 200 ° C, for about 30-35 minutes. Focus on your oven. Determine readiness with a toothpick — it should come out dry. The cake rises a lot when baking, mine even cracked in the middle, but then falls off.