Zebra with vanilla flavor without glaze

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to bake a zebra in the oven? Prepare the products. They should preferably be of the same temperature, preferably room temperature.

2. Step 2:

   

   Melt butter or margarine on the stove in a thick-bottomed dish or in the microwave. To make the process go faster, cut the butter into cubes.

3. Step 3:

   

   In a deep bowl, whisk the eggs with a whisk, gradually adding sugar and stirring. We don't need a fluffy mass, just a lightly beaten egg mixture.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour kefir into the eggs (you can replace it with sour cream), mix until smooth. Now carefully pour in the melted butter in a thin stream, stirring constantly.

5. Step 5:

   

   Mix flour with baking soda. You can also sift the flour through a fine sieve to saturate it with oxygen and give it airiness. Add a spoonful of wheat flour to the egg-oil mixture with a slide, stirring each time. As a result, you should get a homogeneous glossy, not thick and not liquid dough.

6. Step 6:

   

   Divide the resulting dough into 2 equal parts. In one part, add cocoa and 1 tablespoon of boiled water (or milk) and mix so that there are no lumps. Leave the second part as it is.

8. Step 7:

   

   Grease the baking dish with butter. You can cover it with oiled parchment, cutting it out according to the diameter of the shape, taking into account the sides. Spread 1-2 tablespoons of each dough alternately in the middle of the mold. Alternate light and dark dough. First I put the light one.

9. Step 8:

   

   Now the dark dough goes to the light one. It is better to put the spoon perpendicular to the shape, that is, vertically to the center - so the stripes of the future zebra will turn out more even.

10. Step 9:

    

    Put the light dough on the dark one again. And so on to the end.

11. Step 10:

    

    Now use the end of a spoon, a toothpick or the end of a knife to make a drawing of a spider web, drawing lines along the surface of the dough, from the edge to the middle or vice versa. First divide into 4 parts, then between them. Repeat 2 times. This step, however, can be skipped.

12. Step 11:

    

    Put the zebra cake to bake in a preheated 180 degree oven for 30-40 minutes, depending on your oven. Be guided by how many simple pies you bake, for example, charlotte. Check the readiness of the biscuit with a toothpick or the end of a knife. Also, the edges of the finished cake will lag behind the shape.

13. Step 12:

    

    Leave the finished cake to cool. And in an hour or two, call everyone to tea. Bon appetit!