Chocolate Zebra Cake is the best eggless cake! Easy to make and deliciously soft, crumbly, and light on sweet. It pairs very well with a cuppa.
Exactly a year ago, I posted the recipe for Eggless Choco-Cherry Marble Cake, which I had made as my first commercial order.
Our friend this year again ordered the same cake for the same quantity.
I have a quirk that I can’t make the same things twice so I decided to change things around a bit. She wanted the same cake and the same flavor and didn’t want to try something new, so I was left with the only option of changing the look of the cake.
Last year I baked in a loaf pan and sandwiched the chocolate layer between 2 vanilla layers, this year I went with zebra stripes.
The recipe is exactly the same only the pouring pattern is different to achieve zebra stripes.
For one cake, I used 2 times the recipe, one part I made as vanilla and the second part as chocolate, and then alternated the pouring of batter to achieve the zebra.
The cake was a super-duper hit. I even got more orders from our society post this. Everybody wants the same cake, the same flavor.
This is a must-try recipe for all. And when you try, don’t forget to leave your feedback here.
Chocolate Zebra Cake
Ingredients
for vanilla batter
- 1½ cup all purpose flour sieved
- 1 cup yogurt homemade curd
- ¾ cup sugar granulated
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1¼ tsp baking powder
- ½ cup olive oil
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
for chocolate batter
- 1 cup all purpose flour sieved
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup yogurt
- ¾ cup sugar granulated
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1¼ tsp baking powder
- ½ cup olive oil
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 °C for 10 minutes. Grease a 12 cup ring mould.
for vanilla batter
- Beat the sugar and yogurt for 5 minutes on high speed. Add baking powder and baking soda, beat in on low, and allow to stand for 3 minutes. You will find that bubbles appear.
- Beat in the oil and vanilla essence. Next, slowly add the flour in 4 lots, blending in well after each addition.
for chocolate batter
- Beat the sugar and yogurt for 5 minutes on high speed. Add baking powder and baking soda, beat in on low, and allow to stand for 3 minutes. You will find that bubbles appear.
- Sift cocoa powder & flour together 2-3 times.
- Beat in the oil and vanilla extract. Next, slowly add the flour mixture in 4 lots, blending in well after each addition.
- Using an ice cream scoop, pour two scoops of vanilla mixture into pan. Now alternate and pour one scoop of chocolate mixture on top of vanilla mixture. Continue to alternate between vanilla and chocolate layers until bundt pan is filled.
- Bake at 200 °C for 10 minutes, reduce temperature to 170 °C and bake for 45-50 minutes or till a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.
- Cool the cake for 30 minutes and then overturn onto a plate.
- Wait for at least 2 hours before slicing it, else it doesn’t slice neatly.
Notes
- adapted from here & here
- The key to successful zebra effect is quick action otherwise soda will release all its fizz and the cake will not rise.
- Second important key point is to pour each batter on top of the other so that the under layer will spread automatically with its weight, and thus creating a zebra effect.
- You can create any pattern you want and pour batter in any fashion.
- Like a quickbread it is best to slice the cake next day.
- If you want to add dried fruits and nuts in the batter than slightly roast them and coat in flour before adding.
This chocolate cake looks so delicious, wish I had a slice to devour right now. Especially loving that marbled inside! Great recipe!
Thanks Thalia
This chocolate cake looks so delicious! thanks
Thanks for the wonderful recipe. It resulted in a perfect eggless zebra cake !!!
Oh Thank you Koel. This just made my day!
Can I bake this in a regular 9″ round cake pan (not bundt) ?? or will the 9″ be too small ??
You can Kshema but the the baking time will vary and you will need to monitor that accordingly. The baking temperature will remain same though. Hope this helps.