How to bake a cake "Zebra"

If you have planned a small family celebration, in addition to all the delights on the festive table should be cake for tea. And even nicer and tastier for your family if you will bake it with your own hands. Because we all know that homemade cakes taste better. Recipes delicious cakes so much that sometimes I don't know what to stop. One member of the family wants chocolate, the other - on the contrary. And an excellent exit from this situation is to cook the cake "Zebra".

You will need

• • Dough:
  • - 4 eggs;
  • - 2 tbsp of sugar;
  • - 1 sachet of vanilla sugar;
  • - 1 tsp of baking soda
  • slaked in 1-2 tbsp of vinegar;
  • - 1 tbsp of sour cream;
  • - 2 tbsp of flour;
  • - 4 tsp cocoa;
  • - 100 g shelled walnuts.
  • Cream:
  • - 1 tbsp of sour cream;
  • - 1 tbsp of sugar.
  • Glaze:
  • 3 tablespoons of sugar;
  • 3 tbsp Cocoa;
  • 4 tbsp milk;
  • 30-50 g of butter.

Instruction

1. Whisk the eggs with sugar and vanilla until smooth, white and fluffy foam. Add soda, slaked vinegar, and mix well.
2. In the mixture place sour cream and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Stirring constantly, add sifted through a fine sieve the flour, while kneading the dough it is necessary strictly in one direction.
3. Divide the dough into two parts. One part leave as is, and in the second add cocoa and stir until a uniform colour is obtained.
4. Turn the oven to warm. At this time, oil pre-prepared form for the cakeand butter.
5. Pour the batter into the middle of the forms: the white, then with cocoa and so on until the end. Then form a little shake from side to side so that the dough is distributed evenly.
6. Put the form in a preheated 200 degree oven and bake for 45 minutes, need to check readiness with a wooden stick or toothpick. Insert the wooden device in the cake, remove. If the wand is left dry, it is done. If there are still traces of the test, it is necessary to hold in the oven a little more time. Most importantly, the first 15 minutes the oven should not be opened.
7. Remove the finished workpiece and allow it to cool. Then cut it horizontally into 2-3 pieces, tastes better when cut into 3 layers. To do it in the following way: first, 1 cm deep cut with a knife around the perimeter. Then plug in the resulting hole thread, slowly and carefully zavazujete it to the end. With this method of splitting the cakes are smooth and not broken.
8. Prepare the cream:
   Make sugar powder. Add thick cream and heavy cream. Whisk until thick and not flowing mass.
9. Received the cream liberally over each cake.
10. Prepare the glaze:
    Mix sugar, cocoa, milk and cook over low heat 25 minutes. At the end add the butter and let it melt, and then stir.
11. To glaze the cake should still hot solution. On top sprinkle crushed nuts. Also the cake can be decorated with dried fruit such as pineapple or kiwi. Decoration can be done according to your taste.