Zebra Bundt Cake

I really like the flavour of bundt cake and pound cake. I like the richness and texture of the cake. And so I decided to make this zebra bundt cake. My zebra lines didn't turn out as clean as possible, but that may be because I didn't follow the instructions and just randomly poured the chocolate and vanilla batter. If you want pictures, showing how to make the layers, check out the recipe link above. The flavour was delicious and because it was topped with ganache, a.k.a. the best frosting, glaze, topping ever! I plan on writing a post about ganache soon, but until then, you can use this recipe or the one from the polka dot cake.

If you noticed by now, most of the recipes that I make are pretty simple. So is this one.

Ingredients:

• Cake
• 3 cups cake flour (420 grams)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder (8 grams)
• ½ teaspoon salt (2.75 grams)
• 2 ½ cups granulated sugar, divided (500 grams)
• ½ cup natural (not Dutch-processed) cocoa powder (60 grams)
• 6 tablespoons water (90 ml)
• 1 ½ cups unsalted butter, melted and cooled (340 grams)
• ¾ teaspoon vanilla extract (3.7 ml)
• 5 large eggs
• ½ cup whole milk (120 ml)

Glaze
6 ounces bittersweet chocolate (170 grams)
⅔ cup heavy cream (160 ml)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350⁰F or 175⁰C.
2. Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and set aside.
3. In a seperate medium sized bowl whisk together 1/2 cup sugar, cocoa powder and water until smooth and set aside.
4. In a stand mixer beat on medium speed the melted butter and sugar until blended, 1 minute. Add vanilla and beat until combined. Beat in eggs one at a time. When all eggs are added, beat mixture until light and fluffy. It will look like slightly thinner pancake batter.
5. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture in three additions, alternating with the milk in two additions. Mix until just blended.
6. Using an ice cream scooper, pour 2 scoops of vanilla batter into bundt pan. Now pour 1 scoop of chocolate mixture on top of the vanilla mixture. Alternate between the vanilla and chocolate mixture until bundt pan is filled.
7. Bake the cake in the preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
8. Cool cake in pan for 15 minutes, then invert or release the cake from the pan onto a cooling rack and cool completely.

I ate the cake with some homemade ice cream and it was delicious!!!!

I hope you enjoy your zebra cake as much as I did! 
:)