Zebra Cake!?

Zebra Cake

The cake that launched a thousand... blogs? Pinterest has become an obsession of mine - and I'm having a blast trying many new recipes! Making this cake was a lot of fun. I have to admit, I was a little intimidated at first. Sure, it sounds easy, but is it, really? 

It is! Here's how you do it~

OK, I'm going to focus more on the method here. I could tell you how to make cake batter from scratch, but who has time for that!?! Head to the store and pick up two boxes of cake mix - one white, one chocolate. Any brand'll do. Also be sure to grab at least two containers of frosting. Get more if you like LOTS of frosting on your cake. 

Preheat your oven and prepare the cake batter according to the directions. Now grab two round baking pans (preferably non-stick) and 1) spray with non-stick spray, and 2) line the bottoms of each with wax paper. 

Here comes the fun part! This is much easier - and faster - to do if you have two measuring cups of the same size (ex. two 1/3 cup measuring cups). In the first baking dish, pour one full scoop of white cake batter into the center of the dish. It will not cover the bottom of the pan, and that's exactly what you want. Next, take a scoop of the chocolate cake and pour it directly on top of the white cake batter. You'll continue in this manner, alternating scoops of batter until you've used about half of both batters. 

For the second cake, you will follow the same process, but in reverse. Start with the chocolate batter, then white, chocolate, white, etc. until you use the rest of the batter. Just make sure that when you've finished, one cake has chocolate as the top "layer", and the other has white for the top layer. 

Now toss - oops - carefully place the cakes in the oven and bake according to the times indicated on the box. Once the cakes are done, remove them from the oven and let them cool completely. 

Once the cakes have cooled, free the cakes from the pans by flipping the cakes onto plates (a la Martha), or another flat surface. Then level the cakes. Now, for the assembly: the only thing that really matters here is that when you're assembling the layers, be sure the "colors" from the top of the bottom layer match the bottom of the top layer. Essentially, arrange the two layers so the colors alternate from top to bottom. This is why we reversed the color order in the pans prior to baking. Don't forget to frost the middle!

Once you've finished frosting your cake, garnish however you like, or not at all. The fun is inside! Here's how mine turned out:

Happy baking!

C

  

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