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zebra bundt cake

Zebra Bundt Cake

4.62 from 13 votes
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Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Tea Time
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
Servings: 1 bundt pan or a 20cm cake pan or make half a recipe for a 22x11cm rectangular pan
Author: Lorena Salinas from Cravings Journal

Ingredients

For the batter

  • 180 g unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 50 g canola or vegetable oil
  • 2 tsp salt use only 1 tsp if your butter is salted
  • 360 g granulated sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract can be replaced with vanilla essence
  • 240 ml milk of any kind
  • 400 g all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder

For the marbling

  • 5 tbsp cocoa powder ideally 100% cacao
  • 3 tbsp milk any kind

Instructions

For the batter

  • Whip up the butter with the sugar, salt and oil until the mix becomes lighter. You can do this with an electric mixer or using a hand-held whisk.
  • Add the eggs and beat them again until they are fully incorporated and the mix looks airy. From all the whipping, the mix should thicken and start to unstick from the sides of the bowl. If you would like to add the honey mentioned in the post, you add it at this time.
  • Add the milk and vanilla extract and mix. It will look split, but don't worry. It will come back with the flour.
  • Add the flour and baking powder and mix.

For the marbling

  • Divide the cake batter in half. For this I actually weigh out the batter and divide it in half.
  • Mix half of the dough with the cocoa powder and once that's incoporated, add the mik and mix it in as well.
  • Place the vanilla batter in one pastry bag and the chocolate batter in a different one.
  • Grease your bundt pan with oil or soft butter. You can paint it on or use a piece of kitchen paper to spread it around. Flour the mould. After distributing the flour around the inside of the mould, turn it upside down and pat it to remove the excess.
  • Make a ring at the base of your bundt pan with one flavour. On top of it, make a ring with the other flavour. Eventually, you will see that the dough will start to spread out as you pipe more and more. Continue until you have used up all the batter. If you are using a cake pan, do this just at the centre of the pan making a circle within a circle. If you're using a rectangular pan, do this as a line down the centre.
  • Bake the cake at 180°C/350°F for 40min-1hour or until a knife comes out clean. It's important to not overcook it to prevent it from drying out. If you have an electric oven, check the cake at the 30-minute mark. If it's golden enough on top, change the heat source to only the bottom.
  • Unmould the cake while it's still hot.
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