Cake "Zebra" with kefir. Classic Zebra pie with kefir

Recipe information

Cuisine:Home
Type of dish: baked goods
Servings:8-10
1 hour

Ingredients:

300 g wheat flour
3 tbsp. spoons of cocoa powder
3 eggs C0
200 g sugar
1 glass of kefir
a pinch of vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda

Preparation:

Break the eggs into a deep bowl, add sugar and vanilla (I brought it from Bulgaria, if such exotic things are not found in your area, you can replace 1 tablespoon of regular sugar with vanilla). Beat with a mixer until a fluffy light yellow mass is formed for 5-6 minutes.

Pour the required amount of kefir into a large cup, add soda, stir and wait until the ingredients bubble. Add to the egg-sugar mixture, mix on low speed so that the splashes do not scatter throughout the kitchen.

Sift the flour into the salad bowl. Mix it with a mixer in three additions - except for a couple of spoons.

Divide the kefir dough in half. Add the remaining flour to one part and mix.

Sift cocoa powder into the other half and mix thoroughly.

Turn on the oven, setting the temperature to 180 degrees. Line the bottom of a 22-23 cm springform pan with parchment paper. Pour a tablespoon of chocolate batter into the middle of the mold, followed by the light one.

Repeat until the dough is finished - you will end up with a cute striped piece.

Take a dry wooden stick (or toothpick), lower it into the center of the cake and draw a line towards the side of the pan. Make 8-9 such lines.

Place the zebra pie pan with kefir in the oven and cook for 30-35 minutes. The surface of the finished baked goods is slightly springy, and the wooden stick remains dry after being removed from the cake.

To prevent too large “pores” from forming in your baked goods (like mine), before placing in the oven, tap the bottom of the pan with the dough on the counter a couple of times. Don't get too carried away, otherwise the cake won't rise.

Remove the pan, wait until the baked goods have cooled completely, and carefully remove the outer ring. Cut the chocolate-vanilla Zebra into portions and serve with any suitable drink. For me it’s coffee and strong tea with lemon; my husband and child prefer to wash down the pie with cold milk. Bon appetit!

If you don’t have kefir in your refrigerator, you can make a slightly different pie, also very tasty - with sour cream.

Zebra pie with cocoa

Ingredients:

370 g flour
110 g butter
220 g sugar
3 eggs
190 g sour cream
35 g cocoa powder
1 small lemon
1.5 teaspoons baking powder
a pinch of vanillin

Thoroughly cream the warm butter and sugar until creamy. Add the yolks to the mixture one at a time, beating for 30 seconds each time. Gradually, one tablespoon at a time, add sour cream with zest and vanilla.

Add flour, sifted with baking powder, knead the dough. Divide it in half, add cocoa powder to one part (if you get cocoa with lumps, sift it through a sieve), mix until homogeneous. If the chocolate dough turns out to be thick, dilute it with 1-2 tablespoons of milk.

Place the dough in a mold with a diameter of 25-26 cm using the same technology as in the first recipe. Bake the Zebra pie for an hour at 160 degrees.

If you wish, you can watch the video of making Zebra pie if my description did not seem entirely clear to you (there should be a winking smiley here).

A favorite dessert among children, Zebra cake is traditionally prepared with sour cream, but this does not mean that other ingredients cannot be used to prepare the delicacy.

Using kefir, the cake is no less tasty and aromatic, the dough is airy and fluffy.

Zebra cake with kefir - general principles

The cake making process itself is very easy. Both a novice cook and even a child can cope with this task. All ingredients needed for the dough are thoroughly mixed. Next, the base is divided into two parts and cocoa powder is poured into one of them and mixed. This entire procedure takes no more than 15 minutes. And then creativity begins.

The cake was called “Zebra” for a reason. The dessert is a cake of fancy light and dark stripes, reminiscent of the colors of a zebra skin. This is easy to achieve. The previously prepared dough is laid out on a sheet greased or lined with parchment in turn: a spoonful of dark dough is placed in the center of the baking sheet, light dough is placed in the center of the chocolate dough, then dark again, then light, etc., until the base is finished.

Next, all that remains is to put the sheet in the oven and wait about half an hour. Further decoration of the cake depends on your imagination. Most often, the cake is simply filled with cream or glaze; sometimes the cake is cut and soaked in something. You can layer the cake with fruits, nuts or other fillings.

Recipe 1. Classic Zebra cake with kefir

Ingredients:

25 g each of salt and soda;

365 g flour;

255 ml kefir;

225 g sugar;

110 g cocoa powder;

65 g butter.

Cooking method:

1. Set the oven to preheat.

2. Using a mixer, beat eggs with sugar at low power for no more than three minutes.

3. Pour in cold kefir, add salt and continue beating for a few more minutes.

4. Add flour and soda in small portions to the resulting mixture, stir thoroughly with a spoon until it reaches a homogeneous, slightly thick consistency.

5. A small amount of dough is poured into another cup.

6. Pour cocoa powder into one half and stir well, and leave the first white.

7. In a greased mold, first spread the white mass in the center with a ladle.

8. Pour the brown mixture into the center of the white mass, and repeat the same several times.

9. Using a toothpick or other wooden stick, draw lines from the center to the edge.

10. Bake for 30 minutes.

11. Before serving, cool and cut into portions.

Recipe 2. Zebra cake with kefir in a slow cooker

Ingredients:

365 g sugar;

225 g butter;

Flour - 330 g;

Egg – 4 pcs.;

30 g cocoa powder;

15 g soda;

260 ml kefir;

45 ml vegetable oil.

Cooking method:

1. Beat eggs with sugar with a mixer until fluffy and snow-white.

2. Pour melted and cooled butter into the eggs, beat a little more.

3. Add kefir, stir everything well with a spoon.

4. Slowly add flour and soda into the mixture, constantly stirring the dough with a spoon.

5. Knead until a semi-thick homogeneous mass.

6. Divide the dough into two equal parts, add cocoa powder into one and mix well.

7. Grease the multicooker container with vegetable oil.

8. Using a large spoon, place first the white dough in the middle of the container, then the chocolate dough on top, and repeat this until all the dough is gone.

9. Adjust the device to the “baking” mode, time 30 minutes, bake with the lid closed.

10. After the multicooker beeps, allow the cake to cool slightly and remove it from the container, cut into portions and serve.

Recipe 3. Vanilla Zebra Cake with Kefir

Ingredients:

Kefir with a high percentage of fat content – 265 ml;

Sugar – 220 g;

135 g butter;

Cocoa – 45 g;

Half a dessert spoon of vanilla;

Soda – 35 g;

Flour – 385 g;

Vegetable oil – 35 ml.

Cooking method:

1. Combine eggs with sugar and beat with a mixer until a stable snow-white mass.

2. Pour in cold kefir and beat for another 2 minutes.

3. Place the butter on a flat plate, place it in the microwave for 1 minute, and remove it. Cool and pour into the kefir-egg mixture, add vanillin, beat a little more.

4. Mix soda with sifted flour and slowly pour into the mixture in several additions, stirring often.

5. Knead the dough until it has a consistency like thick sour cream.

6. Transfer a little dough to another container and mix with cocoa.

7. Using a ladle, place a small amount of chocolate dough in the middle of the greased pan, place white dough on it, repeat until two mixtures are gone.

8. Using a toothpick, make lines on the surface from the middle to the side walls of the mold.

9. Place the mold in a hot oven for 35 minutes.

10. Turn off the oven, remove the cake pan and cool slightly.

11. Before serving, sprinkle with powdered sugar and cut into portions.

Recipe 4. Zebra cake with kefir and poppy seeds

Ingredients:

325 g butter;

Medium fat kefir – 245 ml;

Sugar – 210 g;

Poppy – 65 g;

1 handful of cocoa;

Flour – 390 g;

Soda – 20 g.

Cooking method:

1. First, pour slightly warmed water over the poppy seed and leave for a few minutes to swell.

2. Using a mixer, beat the eggs combined with sugar for 2 minutes.

3. Melt the butter and pour it into the cooled eggs, beat for another 1 minute.

4. Add poppy seeds to the mixture and mix with a spoon.

5. Add flour and soda in several stages, continuously stirring the dough.

6. Divide the dough into two halves, mix one with cocoa, and leave the other white.

7. Cover the baking container with parchment paper and place the dough in the middle, alternating brown with white.

8. Place the mold in a hot oven for 30 minutes.

9. After this time, pierce the cake with a toothpick; if it is dry, then remove it from the oven; if it is wet, bake for another 5 minutes.

10. Before serving, cool slightly and cut into portions.

Recipe 5. Zebra cake with kefir without butter

Ingredients:

465 g flour;

Sugar – 165 g;

Vegetable oil – 135 ml;

Kefir with high fat content – 255 ml;

Salt, vanillin – 5 g each;

Soda – 45 g;

Acetic acid – 15 ml;

Cocoa – 85 g.

Cooking method:

1. Pour kefir and vegetable oil into beaten eggs with sugar, stir well with a spoon.

2. Add soda, slaked with vinegar, vanillin, salt to the mixture and mix everything thoroughly with a spoon.

3. Slowly add flour through a sieve.

4. Knead until smooth, tender, slightly thick consistency.

5. Divide the dough into two halves, add cocoa to one and mix well.

6. Place a tablespoon of brown dough into a baking container greased with vegetable oil, then white dough, brown dough again, white dough, and so on until the two halves of the dough are gone.

7. Using a toothpick, draw lines from the center to the sides of the mold and place in a hot oven, bake for a little over half an hour.

8. Cool and divide into portions.

Recipe 6. Zebra cake on kefir with strawberries

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.

Cooking method:

1. Beat eggs with sugar until fluffy.

2. Pour in melted and cooled butter and warm kefir over low heat, stir well with a spoon.

3. Pour sifted flour and soda into the mixture, knead with a spoon until it reaches a smooth, smooth consistency.

4. Strawberries are rinsed in a colander and turned into a puree using a blender.

5. Divide the dough into two halves, put strawberry puree into one and mix well.

6. In a baking dish covered with parchment, lay out the red mixture with a ladle, then white, again red and white, repeat until the dough is finished.

7. Place in a hot oven and bake for 30 minutes at a temperature no higher than 220 degrees.

8. Cool, remove from the mold, cut into small pieces and serve with tea or warm milk.

Recipe 7. Zebra colored cake with kefir

Ingredients:

240 ml kefir;

465 g flour;

35 g soda;

230 g sugar;

15 g each of red, orange and green food coloring;

190 g butter;

40 ml vegetable oil.

Cooking method:

1. Pour melted and cooled butter into the fluffy egg and sugar mixture and stir well with a spoon.

2. Add cold kefir and stir again.

3. Add sifted flour and soda in small portions, knead the thick dough thoroughly.

4. Divide the dough into three equal portions.

5. Food colors are diluted in a small amount of water and each color is poured into its own bowl with dough, stirred thoroughly.

6. Grease the baking container with oil and place first red dough in the middle, then green, followed by orange, and so on until all parts of the dough are finished.

7. Use a toothpick to make lines from the center to the edges of the container and bake in a hot oven for 35 minutes at low temperature.

8. Cool, cut into small pieces, and serve with tea.

Cake "Zebra" with kefir - filling options

A cake is not a cake if the cake is not filled or sprinkled with something. You don’t have to mess around and use the simplest products: powdered sugar, candied fruits, nuts with honey, grated chocolate. Or you can experiment and make cream or glaze.

The simplest creams:

Custard (butter, milk, yolks, sugar, flour);

Sour cream (butter, sour cream, sugar);

Curd (cream, cottage cheese, sugar, nuts, vanillin, gelatin);

Chocolate (plum butter, chocolate, nuts);

With condensed milk (condensed milk, butter, nuts).

Zebra cake with kefir - This is a delicious and easy-to-prepare dessert. If you want to surprise your guests not only with the taste of your baked goods, but also with the visual ones, then this recipe is for you. The color of the baked goods is similar to zebra stripes; chocolate and white stripes alternate, which is why the cake is called that.

This effect is achieved due to the peculiar distribution of different colors of dough in the baking dish. The recipe for this kefir dessert is easy to follow. But, despite the fact that the recipe is simple, the cake itself is nutritious and can replace the entire sweet table.

The zebra dessert recipe includes: 3 eggs, one glass of sugar, one glass of kefir, three glasses of flour, 150 grams of butter or margarine, half a teaspoon of soda, two teaspoons of cocoa, vanillin.

Kefir dough can be prepared in two ways. Pour kefir into a bowl and add soda to it. Leave them together for about five minutes. Separately, mix sugar with melted butter or margarine. Then add eggs and vanilla to them. Beat it all with a mixer. Then add flour and knead. The thickness of the dough should be greater than for pancakes.

Preparing the base - option 2

Kefir dough can be prepared in the second way. Beat the sugar, eggs and a pinch of salt with a mixer until you get a white cream. When following the recipe, do not neglect adding salt, it will help eliminate the unwanted egg smell.

Then add kefir and butter, a pinch of salt and a little water. Whisk everything again. Sift the flour and add the kefir mixture and vanillin. Knead into a homogeneous dough. Divide it between two dishes. Add cocoa powder to one of the containers.

Then pour half of the dough into another bowl. Add cocoa powder to one of the resulting parts and mix it.

How to make a zebra?

The zebra dessert recipe contains a secret - it is alternately distributing dough of different colors on a baking sheet to create a striped visual effect.

So, take a baking sheet or other baking dish and grease it with vegetable oil. And now pour the dough into the mold, first white, then chocolate, and so on until you fill the entire mold. It is convenient to spread it with a spoon, and then use a knife to draw circles in the form of a snake. By the way, the zebra pattern is not the only one, you can make a pattern, for example, cobwebs or camouflage, here everything depends on your imagination.

Place the filled pan in the oven and bake the cake for a little over half an hour at 180-200 degrees. To find out if the cake is ready, pierce it with a match or a toothpick; it should remain dry. Allow the zebra cake to cool before removing it from the pan.

The finished cake does not need to be supplemented with anything, then at first glance it will justify the name zebra. Or you can pour chocolate glaze over the cake, but in this case, guests will see its stripes only when cutting.

Let's prepare two types of Zebra, both without sour cream. The delicious Zebra delicacy is prepared from white and chocolate biscuit dough. To make chocolate dough, you need to mix white dough with cocoa powder or grated chocolate. Zebra cake can be made without sour cream. Fermented milk product replaces kefir. At the same time, the dessert turns out very tasty and healthy. To make a cake out of a pie, just cut it lengthwise into a couple of pieces and spread it with cream.

With kefir without sour cream

The delicious Zebra delicacy is prepared from white and chocolate biscuit dough. To make chocolate dough, you need to mix white dough with cocoa powder or grated chocolate. Zebra cake can be made without sour cream. Fermented milk product replaces kefir. At the same time, the dessert turns out very tasty and healthy. To make a cake out of a pie, just cut it lengthwise into a couple of pieces and spread it with cream. Baking time 1.5 hours. Belongs to the biscuit type.

Ingredients

250 grams of kefir or yogurt;
250 grams of granulated sugar;
100 – 150 grams of flour;
100 grams of butter or margarine;
Four eggs;
Vanilla sugar to taste;
A teaspoon of soda or a little baking powder;
A pinch of salt;
Cocoa to taste.

Cooking process

Mix eggs with sugar and beat until smooth;
Melt margarine or butter. Cool slightly and add it to the eggs. Whisk;
Add kefir or yogurt with vanilla sugar. Whisk again;
Add flour, salt, baking powder or soda. Make a homogeneous consistency;
Divide the entire volume of dough into two equal-sized portions. Add cocoa to one and beat until smooth;
Cover the pan with parchment paper and add a little vegetable oil;
Place white dough in the middle of the pan;
Place dark dough on top. Don't mix! It should blur on its own;
Then another layer of white dough, then chocolate. Thus, lay out all the dough. The last layer should be dark;
Using a toothpick from edge to center, draw a flower on the dough;
Place the pie in a hot oven. Bake for forty to sixty minutes at a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees.

Cool the finished zebra cake, which uses kefir. Carefully remove from pan, remove parchment and cut into portions. The dessert turns out very tasty. Additionally, the top can be coated with powdered sugar or chocolate glaze. If you want a cake, you can cut the sponge cake in half and spread it with butter or custard.

To prepare buttercream, you just need to beat butter (200 grams) with condensed milk (one jar). For the custard, boil milk (half a liter) and add in a small stream a mixture of three eggs, a couple of tablespoons of flour and sugar to taste. Boil the resulting mass over low heat for five minutes. Cool slightly and spread the resulting custard over the zebra cake. To make the dessert more tender, let it soak for at least six hours in a cool place. Brew compote for children and aromatic tea for adults. All guests will be delighted with such a delicacy and will definitely ask for more. Therefore, in order to have enough for everyone, you can double all the ingredients and bake a large cake.

Simple recipe without sour cream

Almost everyone has been familiar with this dessert since early childhood. It cooks very quickly, it turns out tasty and fluffy. This cupcake can be baked for morning or evening tea, or treated to unexpected guests. The traditional recipe contains sour cream, but you can knead the dough without it, the baked goods will not be so moist, but this will not affect the taste.

Ingredients

Any housewife will have all the ingredients for the test:

wheat flour – 320–350 g;
sugar – 300 g;
eggs – 4 pieces;
butter – 200 g;
cocoa powder - two tablespoons;
soda – ½ teaspoon;
vinegar - ½ tablespoon;
vanillin - sachet;
a pinch of salt.

Cooking method

You can bake the pie in the oven or slow cooker:

Remove the butter from the refrigerator in advance; it should become soft. You can replace butter with margarine, but the taste of baked goods will deteriorate, and there is no benefit from margarine.
Beat eggs with sugar. The recipe calls for one and a half cups of sugar, but if you plan to cut the cake into layers and coat it with cream or fill it with glaze, the amount of sugar can be reduced to one cup. If you plan to leave the cake as it is and like sweets, then you can increase the amount of sugar to two glasses.
Add softened butter and vinegar to the beaten eggs and mix well.
Add vanillin, salt and soda to the flour and knead the dough. The dough should not be stiff, but it should not be too liquid either. When you spoon the dough onto the plate, it should spread slightly.
Divide the dough into two portions, mix cocoa into one of them.
Grease the mold with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Alternately place two tablespoons of dark and light dough in the middle of the mold. It will spread out, forming concentric circles. If dough of different colors is combined with each other, you need to mix a little flour into each portion.
When the dough is finished, use a thin wooden stick to draw stripes from the edges to the center of the cake, thus depicting a kind of flower on the surface.
The oven must be preheated to 160–170 degrees. Cake baking time is 45–50 minutes. You can check readiness with a splinter.

Remove the cooled cake from the pan and sprinkle with powdered sugar or coconut flakes if desired. In a multicooker in the “baking” mode, the cake bakes a little longer, it will take 80–90 minutes. All that remains is to make coffee and tea and call all the relatives to the table.

Zebra pie is very easy to prepare, looks unusual, and tastes simply wonderful. I don't know of any other pie that evokes so many emotions. I know at least two recipes for making this pie - one of them is with kefir, and the other is with sour cream. Today we will prepare a pie with kefir, but if you want to cook “Zebra” with sour cream, then here is the recipe: http://eda-blog.ru/pirog-zebra.html - everything is described step by step and with photographs. And we’ll get down to business right now!

Ingredients:

glass of kefir
glass of sugar
2-3 eggs
100-150 grams of margarine
1 teaspoon baking soda
vanillin
a couple of teaspoons of cocoa
3 cups flour

Cooking method:

Add soda to the kefir and let it bubble for a couple of minutes.
Melt the margarine, mix with sugar, vanilla and eggs and beat.
Then you need to pour flour there and mix. The dough for this pie will be thicker compared to pancakes.
Then divide the resulting dough into two equal parts. Mix one with cocoa.
Place one dough or another (with cocoa) in a baking dish greased with vegetable oil. Those. so that you get a zebra like this (or you can use it as camouflage or even get creative, for example, in the form of a cobweb).
Place the resulting beauty in the oven for 40 minutes at 180-200C. Check readiness with a toothpick.

There are also slightly different cooking options. Although the essence is still the same. You can experiment yourself.

Zebra pie with kefir. Option 2

3 eggs,
1.5 cups sugar,
a glass of kefir,
50 grams of butter,
a couple of tablespoons of cocoa,
half a teaspoon of salt,
half a spoon of soda, quenched with vinegar.

Beat eggs with sugar with a mixer. Fill it with kefir (you can use sour cream), add butter (you can use margarine). salt and soda. Whisk again. Pour this mixture into the sifted flour and vanilla. Mix thoroughly until smooth. And pour the dough into 2 containers. Pour cocoa into one and stir. Grease a baking dish with butter or margarine.

Now you need to alternately fill it with one dough and then another, as a result the dough will be as striped as a zebra. Place it in the oven at 200-250 degrees for 40 minutes. Then poke it with a toothpick to check readiness (it should remain dry)

After cooking the Zebra, when it cools down, you can also brush it with glaze.

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Reviews

Thank you very much for the recipe. I baked the first recipe and really liked it. We ate it, not even a day had passed. I want to try baking it in a silicone mold, but I don’t know if it will work or not. If anyone has tried baking this way, can you tell me if the dough was baked or not?

prepared according to the 1st recipe
Got up - great
Taste is good
View - excellent

I’m cooking according to the first recipe now. It’s interesting, but the amount of cocoa is described. At first it says a couple of teaspoons, and after a line there are 1-2 spoons. And it’s strange that there’s a backing soda and a whole one, there’s a difference. And with margarine the same problem.
Some kind of nonsense