Zebra Cake

Name: Zebra Cake
Yield: Serves 14 to 16
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons, Dutch-processed cocoa powder; 3 tablespoons, boiling water; 1 , recipe batter; 4 cups, recipe; 1 ounce (28 grams) semisweet or, bittersweet chocolate, chopped

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2017

Desserts or Baked Goods

Cakes

Go wild with this chocolate and vanilla striped cake, finished in a rich vanilla buttercream.

SERVES14 to 16

TIME1¾ hours, plus 1½ hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For this cake’s signature stripes, we mix cocoa powder with hot water not only to bring out its flavor but also to prevent it from thickening the cake batter too much. Both Dutch-processed and natural cocoa work in this recipe, but Dutch-pr...

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