Beside the mazurka and cheese cake, Easter cakes are the most popular cakes baked for Easter in Poland. Often they are frosted and serve equally as a decoration on the table and a pleasure for our palate. This time I would like to share with you the recipe for a common vanilla-chocolate Easter cake called zebra. The secret of this cake is to have thin layers, alternating between light and dark dough and, needless to say, don't mix them up. The thinner the layers, the more stripes your cake will have. It looks excellent and even a very busy housewife can do it. The preparation lasts only a few moments, the ingredients are really basic, and the effect is glamourous. You have to try it!

Ingredients:
210g of flour
120g of brown sugar
80ml of oil
250ml of milk
1 tablespoon of cocoa
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 tablespoon of apple vinegar
chocolate icing

Heat the oven up to 180C. Smooth a cake tin (22cm) with a "chimney" with butter and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
Mix the flour with the sugar and baking powder in a bowl. Mix the oil with the milk, vanilla essence and vinegar in a separate bowl. Mix the dry with the wet ingredients. Split the dough into two equal portions. Add the cocoa to one of them and mix it in. Put the two kinds of dough spoon by spoon into the cake tin. Bake for 45-50 minutes. Decorate with the chocolate icing when the cake has cooled down.

Enjoy your meal!

Try also:
Lemon cake – decoration for the Easter table
Chocolate paschal dish
Small Easter cake for the Easter basket