Eggless Marble Cake/ Zebra Cake

Baking Time: 35-40 mins

Ingredients:

• Plain Flour/ maida: 1.5 cup
• Baking pwd: 1 ¼ tsp
• Baking soda: ½ tsp
• Sugar: 1 cup
• Salt: a pinch
• Thick curd: 1 cup
• Cooking oil: ½ cup
• Vanilla essence: 3-4 tsps
• Coffee: 1 tbsp
• Cocoa pwd: 2 tsp
• Milk: 2 tbsp
• Hot water: 1 -2 tbsp

Method:

1. Pre- heat the oven to 200◦C. Grease a baking dish and keep aside.
2. Powder the sugar. In a pan, add curd and powdered sugar. Mix till sugar is dissolved completely.
3. Add baking soda and baking powder in curd mixture. Mix well.
4. Keep this curd mixture aside for 2-3 mins. The mixture will become frothy and increase in volume.
5. When the curd mixture has become frothy, add oil and vanilla essence to it. Mix gently.
6. Now slowly add pain flour to it and fold gently (don’t stir fast) to form a smooth batter.
7. The batter should be of dropping consistency.
8. Divide this batter in two equal parts in two separate pans.
9. Take a small bowl, add coffee, cocoa pwd and hot water (1-2 tbsp) and mix well. Make a smooth paste.
10. Brown Batter: To one part of the batter, add this coffee- cocoa mixture. Mix well.
11. Plain batter: To the other part of the batter, add milk (2-3 tbsp).
12. Take the greased baking dish.
13.  Pour 1 tbsp of plain batter in the middle of the pan. (Let it spread by itself. Don’t try to spread it by shaking the dish or with spoon)
14.  Now pour 1 tbsp of brown batter on the plain batter.
15.  Keep pouring both the batters alternatively until whole of the batter is poured. (Don’t try to spread/ touch the pan/ batter. )
16.   Let the batter spread by itself in whole of the pan.
17.  Reduce the temperature of the oven to 180◦C and bake the cake for 35-40 mins.
18. To check if the cake is ready, insert a toothpick in the cake and it should come out clean.
19.  Let the cake cool down for 10-15 mins before serving.