Children's favorite dessert - “Zebra” cake is traditionally made on sour cream, but this does not mean that you cannot use other ingredients to make a treat.
On kefir cake turns out not less tasty and fragrant, dough is airy, fluffy.
Zebra cake on kefir - general principles
The process of making a cake is very easy. The novice cook, and even the child will cope with this task. All ingredients required for the test are thoroughly mixed. Next, the base is divided into two parts and cocoa powder is poured into one of them, mixed. The whole procedure takes no more than 15 minutes. And then begins the work.
The cake was called “Zebra” for good reason. The dessert is a cake of fancy light and dark stripes, resembling the coloring of a zebra skin. Getting it easy. On the buttered or parchment-lined sheet, lay the previously prepared dough in turn: put a spoonful of dark dough in the center of the pan, spread the dough in the center of the chocolate dough, then dark again, then light, etc., until the base is finished.
It remains to put the sheet in the oven and wait for about half an hour. Further decoration of the cake depends on your imagination. Most often, the cake is simply poured with cream or icing, sometimes the cake is cut and soaked with something. You can sandwich the cake with fruits, nuts or other fillings.
Recipe 1. Classic cake “Zebra” on kefir
Ingredients:
• 25 g of salt and soda;
• 365 g of flour;
• 3 eggs;
• 255 ml of kefir;
• 225 g of sugar;
• 110 g of cocoa powder;
• 65 g butter.
Preparation:
1. Set to warm up the oven.
2. Using a mixer, beat eggs with sugar at a low power for no more than three minutes.
3. Do not pour in cold kefir, add salt and continue to beat a few more minutes.
4. In the resulting mixture in small portions enter the flour with soda, stir well with a spoon until a homogeneous, slightly thick consistency. 5. A small amount of dough is poured into another cup.
6. Pour cocoa powder in one half and stir well, and leave the first one white.
7. In a greased form, lay out the white mass in the center firstly.
8. In the center of the white mass pour brown mixture, the same is repeated several times.
9. A toothpick or other wooden stick draws a line from the center to the edge.
10. Bake 30 minutes.
11. Before serving, cool and cut into portions.
Recipe 2. Cake “Zebra” on a kefir in a slow cooker
Ingredients:
• 365 g of sugar;
• 225 g butter;
• flour - 330 g;
• egg - 4 pcs .;
• 30 g of cocoa powder;
• 15 g of soda;
• 260 ml of kefir;
• 45 ml of vegetable oil.
Preparation:
1. Beat the eggs with a sugar mixer until fluffy white mass.
2. Pour melted and cooled butter to the eggs, beat a little more.
3. Add kefir, stir everything well with a spoon.
4. Slowly inject flour with soda into the mass, constantly stirring the dough with a spoon.
5. Knead until semi-uniform mass.
6. Divide the dough into two equal parts, pour cocoa powder into one and mix well.
7. The capacity of the multicooker is smeared with vegetable oil.
8. Put the white dough in the middle of the bowl with a large spoon, first the white dough, then the chocolate dough on top, and repeat until the whole dough is finished.
9. Adjust the device to the “baking” mode, time 30 minutes, bake with the lid closed.
10. After the beep, the multicookers allow the cake to cool slightly and remove it from the container, cut it into portions and serve it to the table.
Recipe 3. Zebra Vanilla Cake on Kefir
Ingredients:
• 4 eggs;
• kefir with a high percentage of fat - 265 ml;
• sugar - 220 g;
• 135 g butter;
• cocoa - 45 g;
• floor of dessert spoon of vanilla;
• soda - 35 g;
• flour - 385 g;
• vegetable oil - 35 ml.
Preparation:
1. Eggs are combined with sugar and whipped with a mixer until a stable white mass.
2. Pour in not cold kefir, beat for another 2 minutes.
3. The oil is put on a flat plate, placed for 1 minute in a microwave, removed. Cool and pour in kefir-egg mixture, add vanillin, beat a little more. 4. Soda is mixed with sifted flour and slowly poured into the mass in several stages, often stirring.
5. Knead the dough to the consistency, like thick sour cream.
6. A bit of dough is transferred to another container and mixed with cocoa.
7. Cook with a small amount of chocolate dough spread on the middle of a buttered mold in the middle of the butter, white dough on it, repeat until two masses are empty.
8. Using a toothpick make on the surface of the line from the middle to the side walls of the form.
9. Place the form in a hot oven for 35 minutes.
10. Turn off the oven, take out the form with the cake and cool slightly.
11. Before serving, sprinkle with powdered sugar, cut into portions.
Recipe 4. Cake “Zebra” on kefir with poppy
Ingredients:
• 3 eggs;
• 325 g butter;
• medium-fat kefir - 245 ml;
• sugar - 210 g;
• poppy - 65 g;
• 1 handful of cocoa;
• flour - 390 g;
• soda - 20 g.
Preparation:
1. First pour poppy seeds with slightly warmed water and leave for a few minutes to swell.
2. Mixer for 2 minutes, beat the eggs, combined with sugar.
3. The butter is melted and poured into the eggs chilled, beat for another 1 minute.
4. Add to the mass poppy mix with a spoon.
5. Introduce flour with baking soda in several receptions while continuously stirring the dough.
6. Divide the dough into two halves, one mixed with cocoa, the other left white.
7. The baking dish is covered with parchment paper and spread out in the middle of the dough, alternating between brown and white.
8. Place the mold in a hot oven for 30 minutes.
9. After this time has elapsed, a cake is pierced with a toothpick; if it is dry, it is removed from the oven; if it is wet, bake it for another 5 minutes.
10. Before serving, cool slightly and cut into portions.
Recipe 5. Cake “Zebra” on kefir without butter
Ingredients:
• 4 eggs;
• 465 g of flour;
• sugar - 165 g;
• vegetable oil - 135 ml;
• kefir with a high content of fat - 255 ml;
• salt, vanillin - 5 g;
• soda - 45 g;
• acetic acid - 15 ml; • cocoa - 85 g.
Preparation:
1. Kefir and vegetable oil are poured into eggs whipped with sugar and stirred well with a spoon.
2. Add soda, extinguished with vinegar, vanillin, salt to the mass and mix everything thoroughly with a spoon.
3. Slowly inject flour through a sieve.
4. Knead to a homogeneous, delicate, slightly thick consistency.
5. Divide the dough into two halves, add cocoa into one and mix well.
6. In a greased vegetable oil container for baking, spread out with a tablespoon, first brown dough, then white, again brown, white, and so on until the two halves of dough run out.
7. Toothpick hold the line from the center to the sides of the form and put in a hot oven, bake a little more than half an hour.
8. Cool, divide into portions.
Recipe 6. Cake “Zebra” on kefir with strawberry
Ingredients:
• kefir - 230 ml;
• 340 g butter;
• flour - 385 g;
• soda - 35 g;
• sugar - 170 g;
• egg - 3 pieces;
• fresh or frozen strawberries - 6 pieces.
Preparation:
1. Beat eggs with sugar until fluffy.
2. Pour melted over low heat and cooled butter and lukewarm kefir, stir well with a spoon.
3. Pour the sifted flour with soda into the mass, knead with a spoon until a homogeneous delicate texture.
4. Strawberries are rinsed in a colander and turned into mashed pulp with a blender.
5. The dough is divided into two halves, in one lay out strawberry puree and mix well.
6. In the baking dish, covered with parchment, spread red mass into the ladle, then repeat the white, red and white again, until the dough is finished.
7. Place in a hot oven and bake for 30 minutes at a temperature not higher than 220 degrees.
8. Cool, remove from the mold, cut into small pieces and serve with tea or warm milk.
Recipe 7. Color Zebra Cake on Kefir
Ingredients:
• 4 eggs;
• 240 ml of kefir;
• 465 g of flour;
• 35 g of soda;
• 230 g sugar;
• 15 g of food dyes in red, orange and green; • 190 g butter;
• 40 ml of vegetable oil.
Preparation:
1. Into the lush egg mixture with sugar pour in melted and cooled butter, stir well with a spoon.
2. Add non-cold kefir, stir again.
3. Enter in small portions of the sifted flour with soda, thoroughly knead thick dough.
4. Divide the dough into three equal portions.
5. Food dyes are diluted in a little water and poured into each color in their own bowl with dough, thoroughly stirred.
6. The baking dish is oiled and spread into the middle, first the red dough, then the green, followed by the orange, and so on until the end of all parts of the dough.
7. Make a toothpick line from the center to the edges of the container and bake in a hot oven for 35 minutes at a low temperature.
8. Cool, cut in small pieces, served with tea.
Cake “Zebra” on kefir - fill options
Cake is not a cake, if the cake does not pour something or pour it on. You can not mess around and use the most simple products: powdered sugar, candied fruits, nuts with honey, grated chocolate. And you can experiment and make a cream or icing.
The simplest creams:
• Custard (butter, milk, yolks, sugar, flour);
• Sour cream (butter, sour cream, sugar);
• Cottage cheese (cream, cottage cheese, sugar, nuts, vanillin, gelatin);
• Chocolate (butter plum, chocolate, nuts);
• With condensed milk (condensed milk, butter, nuts).
