Stripping the Zebra

My mum used to make this zebra cake back at hometown. Been searching a while for the right recipe from the web but most of the them turns out to be crumble and dry. Finally I got back to my mum for the recipe.

ZEBRA CAKE RECIPE

(mum's recipe - dun ask me who's the creator)

INGREDIENTS
Makes one 8" round cake

• 10 whites + 2 egg yolks OR 6 whole eggs
• 120g castor sugar
• 150g cake flour or low protein flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tbsp emulsifier / Ovalett
• 100g butter, melted
• 30g condensed milk
• 2 tsp cocoa powder
• 1 tsp chocolate emulco
• Corn/Almond nibs for sprinkling (optional)
 

METHOD

1. Preheat oven to 170 Celsius. Prepare and grease a 8 inch round cake pan.
2. Sift flour and baking powder. Set aside.
3. Beat eggs, flour mixture, castor sugar and emulsifier (ovalett) on high speed for 10 minutes until batter turns light and creamy, i.e. thick ribbon state.

 

4. Next step is to pour in the melted butter, condensed milk and vanilla essence. Mix at slow speed to minimize bubble or air into the batter.

5. Divide batter into 2 portions (1st portion = 1/3, 2nd portion = 2/3)

6. Fold in chocolate emulco and cocoa powder into the 1st batter.
7. Using a small ladle, scoop 3 times of the original batter into the center of the greased cake pan. Then, scoop 3 times of chocolate batter onto the center of the plain batter you just scooped into the pan. Repeat until you have finished about half of the batter. Reduce to 2 scoops each now and continue layering. Reduce the amount of batter gradually until you only pour 1 scoop of each batter finally. The circles will become smaller and smaller.

(Greedy, I used 3 small bake pan)

(Baking in progress)

8. Sprinkle almond nibs to cake (I omitted this).
9. Bake at 170c for 30-40 minutes or until the skewer insert comes out clean.
10. Let cake cools down on a wire wrack and enjoy.