zebra cake

20 August 2012






I was watching Lorraine Pascale's cookery program on the telly on saturday morning (what else are saturdays mornings for if not spent watching cookery programs) and she made this amazing marble effect cake that looks like zebra print. I haven't baked for a while which is not like me at all so I thought I'd try this recipe and rekindle my baking mojo!


Zebra Cake

Ingredients

  • 200ml vegetable oil
  • 250g caster sugar
  • 100ml milk
  • 1tsp vanilla essence
  • 4 medium free-range eggs
  • 475g self-raising flour
  • 25g cocoa powder
  • 1tsp baking powder







Line and grease your cake tin and pre-heat the oven to 180degrees




Mix the oil, sugar, vanilla essence, milk, eggs and 175g of the flour in a bowl


Halve the mixture into two bowls



Add 175g of flour and 1/2tsp baking powder to the plain mixture
Add 25g of cocoa powder, 125g flour and 1/2tsp baking powder to the chocolate mixture



Place the mixtures in piping bags - I use Lakeland's Disposable ones


(This is the messy bit) Pipe a dollop of alternate mixtures into the cake tin.


Keep piping until you run out of mixture and the tin is full. 


Bake for roughly 25 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean




Now I'm just wishing I'd known about this recipe when I made my hot pink and zebra-print 21st birthday cake which I blogged about at the time here - that would've been even more impressive! There may be a reincarnation for my 22nd...

11 comments:

  1. this turned out so good!

    you have such a lovely blog too, definitely following :)

    from helen at www.thelovecatsinc.com // @thelovecatsinc

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  2. i love lorraine's show! she's so gorgeous, isn't she? xx

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  3. yumyumyum! i love the name 'zebra cake' that's what i'm going to call it from now on, much better than marble cake ;)
    also never thought about using piping bags, mines usually a muddy brown mess due to not using them haha!
    great post :)
    Rosie xo
    A Pocketful of Rosie

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  4. Looks yummy, love the zebra effect of it! xo

    http://prettypetticoats.blogspot.co.uk/

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  5. AH I really want to make this!! Off to get some disposable piping bags :) or to risk it pouring with jugs?I was so excited to see this post :) did you watch tonight? I want to make that chocolate mousse so bad!
    katieneedsajob.blogspot.co.uk/

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    1. Ooh no I didn't - I seem to only catch it on Saturday mornings but I'll be setting my sky plus to record from now on lol :) Glad you liked it!

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  6. Such a cool idea! Looks yummy! xx

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  7. Hello,

    Regarding Rotherham, I have only lived here for 1 year whereas my boyfriend has lived here his whole life.

    There are nice bits and horrible bits (the same as everywhere) but where we live is nice. If you want an idea of the nicer areas I can certainly let you know? :)

    Victoria x
    Lily loves Lola

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  8. That is amazing! I don't very often try making things I read about but I will definitely be trying this! x

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  9. Cheers, they should have some kind of notification when people reply so we're not just stalking peoples blogs haha! Oh I'm in the same boat, think our year size goes from like 200ish to about 40 so all my mates are going too :/ I'm working in Endcliffe as a Res Mentor this year so hopefully that'll make it easy to make new friends, it's a bit daunting tho moving into a flat of 10! I'm sure you'll be fine mingling in with all the second years, English has gotta be a more sociable degree than Maths haha. Thanks for the heads up, it's probably a contributing factor to why I have two followers so far! ;) And no way that you're from Chorley haha, that's like half an hours drive!
    xoxox

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  10. omg this looks amazing!!! ah I could eat it now xxx

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