Zebra cake

        

Ingredients:

AP flour.(Maida)	2 cups
Baking powder	2 tsp
Salt	¼ tsp
Sugar	1 cup
Butter	100 gms
Oil	2 tbsp
Lemon juice	2 tsp
Vanilla essence	1 tsp
Milk	¼ cup (room temperature)
Egg	3 nos
Cocoa powder	2 tbsp

Method:

1. Sieve flour, baking powder and salt together. Keep aside. Sieve cocoa powder and keep separate. 
2. Grind sugar into powder. Take 2 tbsp of sugar powder from this and mix into cocoa powder.
3. Use fresh eggs or if taken from fridge, wait till it comes to room temperature.
4. Now in a wide bowl, place butter and oil. Beat with electric mixer or hand whisker till blends. Add powdered sugar and beat till it becomes white and creamy. Now add egg one at a time and beat again in high speed till blends well.
5. Now add vanilla essence and lemon juice and beat till well mixed.
6. Now add seived flour mix in batches and fold gently with a spatula. Do not over mix. Mix till flour and egg mix incorporated well. Now add milk and again fold gently till all the milk absorbed well. Cake batter is ready.
7. Now divide this cake batter into two equal portions ( divide half portion of the batter into another bowl) To one portion, add cocoa sugar mix and mix till it binds well. 
8. Side by side preheat the oven for 10 - 12 mins depends on your oven model.
9. Take a baking tray ( I used 20 x 5 cm round tray) brush with butter or oil and place parchment paper (or you can dust with flour over butter coating).
10. Now take two wide, deep, big spoons and place each one into batter ( one for vanilla and one for cocoa) (you can use two cups also to pour the batter)
11. Pour one spoon/cup of vanilla batter in the centre of the tray, and followed by cocoa batter (pour to the centre of vanilla batter). Repeat the process till all batter is emptied.
12. Now preheated oven will be ready. Place the cake tray in the centre rack. Set the oven temperature at 180 degree. Bake for 45 - 50 mins.
13. For checking use a toothpick. Insert the toothpick in the centre of the cake till deep and remove. If it comes out clean then the cake is ready. Or if its wet, continue baking for another 10 more minutes.

Tip: 
Once baking is over, do not take out the cake immediately. Let it sit in the oven for 10 more minutes and then take out. Once the cake cools down, cut into pieces.