I Tried Making Homemade Zebra Cakes | Claire Recreates

Summary by Krater

Claire Saffitz attempts to recreate Little Debbie Zebra Cakes from scratch, analyzing their components, baking a thin chiffon cake, filling it with a whipped creme filling, cutting hexagonal portions, coating them in white glaze, and piping chocolate stripes.

From the video

Answers: How do you make homemade Zebra Cakes?

• recreating store-bought snacks
• chiffon cake baking
• buttercream and creme filling
• glazing and enrobing
• piping chocolate stripes

Ingredients

• 90 g cake flour
• 3/4 tsp kosher salt
• 3 large eggs
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup oil
• 1/4 cup buttermilk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/8 tsp cream of tartar
• 454 g confectioners' sugar
• light corn syrup
• white chocolate
• chocolate
• 10 oz butter

What it concludes

• The chiffon cake for Zebra Cakes needs to be baked very thin with an extremely tight, tender crumb.
• Enrobing the hexagonal cake pieces in poured white chocolate fondant and piping chocolate stripes successfully mimics the look and texture of commercial Zebra Cakes.