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Zebra cake
Jazz up your morning coffee or afternoon tea with this delicious dark chocolate and vanilla swirled zebra cake.
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Recipe zebra cake
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8 persons
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Made by Véronique
Published at 2014-10-15, this recipe is for 8 persons and takes 1 hours 15 minutes.
Founder of Ohmydish (since 2014), she prefers to spend all day in the kitchen. Once working in the hospitality industry as an independent chef, she loves helping you gain confidence in the kitchen. With her easy-to-follow recipes, handy tips, and cooking knowledge, you'll make the most delicious dishes yourself! The recipes are accessible to everyone, from beginners to advanced home cooks.
Updated at: 2025-07-19
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Preparation time
15 minutes
Time cooking
1 hours
Total time
1 hours 15 minutes
Preparation – 10 minutes
Preheat the oven to 175 degrees celsius. Mix the butter, sugar and a pinch of salt in a large bowl, until creamy.
Add the self-raising flour, little by little, while mixing. Keep mixing until the batter becomes smooth. It is best to use a stand mixer for this.
Divide the cake batter in half and mix the vanilla sugar through one half and the melted chocolate through the other half. Grease 2 round cake tins with butter, and dust with some flour.
You could choose to line the cake tins with baking parchment. However, greasing a cake tin prevents creases in the finished cake which can be caused by the baking parchment. Spoon 2 tablespoons of vanilla batter into each of the cake tins.
Continue by spooning in 1 or 2 tablespoons of chocolate batter on top (to create layers). Repeat until both bowls are empty and you have equally filled baking tins.
Alternatively, you can make 1 large cake and cut it in half after baking. If yo choose to do this, the baking time will be longer.
Baking the zebra cake – 1 hour
Bake the two cakes in the preheated oven for an hour. Do not open the oven during baking, otherwise the cake will lose its firmness and collapse.
You can use a wooden skewer to check if the cake is done; if the skewer comes out clean, the cake is ready. After baking, let the cakes cool on a cooling rack.
Making the butter cream – 5 minutes
Mix the room temperature butter with icing sugar, vanilla extract and the baileys. Mix until you have a smooth, firm butter cream. Spread a layer of buttercream on one cake and place the second cake on top.
Using a palette knife, spread the remaining buttercream over the outside of the cakes.
tip: you can also use this recipe to bake 24 small zebra cupcakes. The baking time is then 20 minutes instead of 60 minutes. Enjoy this delicious zebra cake!
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Bec
says on 2016-12-26
This looks great In made a zebra cake years ago, and had forgotten about it - my kids would love the novelty of the stripes - Thank you for the inspiration!
Ohmydish
says on 2016-12-26
Hi Bec, this cake is so much fun for kids (and adults!). Enjoy!
Thalia @ butter and brioche
says on 2014-10-17
Wish I had a slice of this zebra cake to devour right now.. it looks SO delicious. Pinned!
Ohmydish
says on 2014-10-17
A zebra cake is easy to make and so delicious! Thank you for pinning
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