Soft and Fluffy Zebra sponge cake
This zebra cake recipe will help you to bake soft and fluffy zebra sponge cake.
Ingredients
- 90 g flour ½ cup+3 tbsp
- 100 g sugar ½ cup
- 50 g milk 3 tbsp+1 tsp
- 45 g oil any flavorless oil 3 tbsp+1 tsp
- 10 g corn flour 1 tbsp
- 7-8 g cocoa powder 1 tbsp
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Prepare the cake batterSeparate the egg yolks and egg whites in to two separate bowls.Whisk the egg white, until slightly foamy then add half of the sugar( 50 g ,little by little) and whisk until medium stiff peaks form using an electric mixer.You can see in the video that the peaks are stable .
Into the bowl of egg yolks,add sugar and salt and whisk them until pale yellow in color and then add all the liquid ingredients into it i.e. milk,oil and vanilla extract.Sift in the flour into this and mix just until they form a smooth batter.Very gently fold the egg white into the egg yolk batter. Add in three small batches so that we can do it gently and thus prevent the egg foam to from deflating much.Mix gently just until you get a smooth batter.Pour half of the batter into another bowl and then sift and add 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder into one bowl.Gently mix the cocoa powder into the batter and we got the chocolate batter. - Pour in the batter into the baking pan.Spoon 3-4 tablespoons of the plain batter into the centre of the 7-inch cake pan. Then add 2-3 tablespoons of the cocoa batter on top and repeat until all batter has been used.Tap the pan on a surface a few times to get rid of big air bubbles,Otherwise large air bubbles may break open on top of the cake surface when baked and it can affect the beauty of the cake.Then place the cake pan in a larger baking tray filled with ½ ” room temperature water for a water bath.
- Bake the cake at 300F/150C in the lower rack of oven for 85-90 minutes.
- Happy baking :)
Video
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