Zebra pie with kefir - the best recipes for a delicious, wonderful and lush dessert

Almost all chefs call “Zebra” pie with kefir traditional sour cream; it is prepared according to a similar principle. You can even combine sour cream with kefir or sour milk for the dough. This dessert recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and continues to win fans thanks to its sophistication and, at once, ease of production.

How to make Zebra pie with kefir?

The zebra pie with kefir got its name because of the two-color dough, black and light stripes reminiscent of the skin of this animal. The main ingredients are flour, sugar, eggs, drink, soda, cocoa. You can add any kind of butter, margarine, vanillin, almost all housewives divide the shortbread in half and coat it with jam.

Zebra pie with kefir will be successful if:

Combine the watery and dry components separately.
Cut the dough with soda and baking powder at once.
Cook the dry part first so that the watery part does not lose air.
A fluffy “Zebra” made with kefir will turn out if you add melted butter.
To ensure the cake rises moderately, cover the pan with foil.

“Zebra” with kefir - a traditional recipe

In order for the “Zebra” with kefir to bake well, the dough must be placed in the oven, heated to at least 160 degrees. The mold is greased with butter, butter or vegetable oil, then covered with parchment and sprinkled with flour.

cocoa – 3 tbsp. l.;
eggs – 3 pcs.;
sugar – 1 tbsp;
soda – 1 tsp;
drink – 250 ml;
flour – 300 g;
vanilla – 0.25 tsp.

Grind the eggs with sugar.
Dilute soda and egg mixture in kefir.
Add flour and vanilla.
Beat the mixture and divide.
Add cocoa to the first half.
Pour the dough into strips into the mold.
Bake the Zebra pie with kefir in the oven for half an hour.

“Zebra” with kefir and sour cream

You can get a tasty “Zebra” with kefir if you add sour cream to the fermented milk product. The baked goods will be more fluffy if you add a couple more spoons of mayonnaise. To prevent the multi-colored stripes from spreading, cocoa is placed in the finished dough. Some housewives note that the cake falls; this will not happen if you keep it in the switched off oven for 15 minutes.

cocoa – 3 tbsp. l.;
eggs – 5 pcs.;
sugar – 350 g;
butter – 100 g;
sour cream – 100 g;
drink – 100 g;
flour – 250 g;
baking powder – 1 tsp;
chocolate – 100 g.

Mix butter with half the sugar.
Beat the second part with the eggs, combine the consistency.
Mix the drink, sour cream and baking powder.
Add flour.
Divide the dough and add cocoa to one part.
Lay out, alternating layers.
Bake for 40 minutes.
Decorate the kefir zebra pie with melted chocolate.

“Zebra” without eggs on kefir

If there are guests on the doorstep, and there are no eggs left for the dough, you can try the Zebra recipe with kefir without this product. Before adding, the flour must be sifted to saturate it with oxygen, then the baked goods will turn out more fluent. It is better to melt the butter rather than soften it. The drink can be replaced with yogurt.

cocoa – 2 tbsp. l.;
sugar – 150 g;
drink – 150 g;
honey - 3 tbsp. l.;
flour – 1 tbsp.;
margarine – 50 g;
baking powder – 1 tsp;
vanilla sugar – 1 tsp;
soda – 1 tsp.

Melt margarine, dilute with sugar and kefir.
Mix baking powder, soda, vanillin and honey.
Add flour, stir.
Divide the batch and put cocoa in one part.
Lay out the dough in different layers.
Bake the Zebra pie without eggs on kefir for 40 minutes.

Zebra pie with kefir without oil

The most common option is Zebra kefir pie in the oven. The rich color depends on the type of cocoa; the powder must be finely ground, which when rubbed remains on the fingers, with a fat content of at least 10%. The dough should be similar to thick sour cream, but not very watery, otherwise it won’t bake.

cocoa – 1 tbsp. l.;
eggs – 3 pcs.;
sugar – 1 tbsp;
drink – 1 tbsp.;
soda – 0.5 tsp;
flour – 2 tbsp;
vanillin – 1 tsp.

Beat eggs with sugar.
Add drink, soda.
Mix flour and vanillin and add.
Divide the dough, add cocoa.
Frisky Zebra pie with kefir takes 30 minutes to prepare.

“Zebra” on kefir with vegetable oil

When you have molds at home, you can bake a “Zebra” cake with kefir; the dough takes the same amount of time to prepare. It is more convenient to create strip transitions with a teaspoon, but if you want large stripes, you need to take a tablespoon. On the surface, using a toothpick, you can simply draw a beautiful pattern on a series of cobwebs.

cocoa – 2 tbsp. l.;
flour – 2 tbsp;
eggs – 3 pcs.;
drink – 1 tbsp.;
sugar – 2 tbsp;
soda – 0.5 tsp;
vanillin – 1 tsp;
vegetable oil – 0.5 tbsp.

Grind the eggs with sugar.
Dilute the drink, oil, soda, vanillin, flour.
Mix, divide.
Put in cocoa.
Lay out in strips, smooth out.
Bake for 40 minutes.

Very tasty airy manna "Zebra" with kefir

Zebra manna with kefir will help you create the most satisfying treat; with this sour product, baked goods come out fluffy and porous. Cinnamon will give a pleasant smell. Check whether the dessert is ready with a match, if the dough does not stick to it, then it’s time to remove it from the oven. You can draw a pattern on the surface.

cocoa – 2 tbsp. l.;
flour – 1 tbsp.;
sugar – 1 tbsp;
butter – 100 g;
eggs – 2 pcs.;
semolina – 1 tbsp.;
drink – 1 tbsp.;
flour – 1 tbsp.;
vanillin – 1 tsp;
cinnamon – 0.5 tsp;
soda – 0.5 tsp.

Dilute semolina in kefir and leave for an hour.
Beat eggs with sugar.
Mix, add oil.
Put soda and flour.
Divide the dough and add cocoa to one part.
Place in strips in the mold.
Bake the Zebra pie with semolina on kefir for 40 minutes.

“Zebra” with kefir in a slow cooker

It is much easier to prepare a “Zebra” pie with kefir in a slow cooker; the ingredients are the same, and time spent on troubles around the oven is freed up. There is no risk that the baked goods will burn or not bake. You can draw a flower on the surface by drawing stripes with a toothpick from the edge to the middle.

cocoa – 3 tbsp. l.;
drink – 1 tbsp.;
butter – 100 g;
sugar – 2 tbsp;
eggs – 2 pcs.;
flour – 350 g;
baking powder - 1.5 tsp;
vanillin – 0.5 tsp.

Beat the eggs with half the sugar.
Add melted butter and a glass of kefir.
Mix flour with baking powder and vanilla.
Add to mix.
Divide the dough into parts, add cocoa to one part.
Place the dough in strips into the bowl.
Place on “Baking” for 45 minutes.

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The “Zebra” pie, loved by almost everyone, has not gained its popularity in vain: this pastry is not only beautiful in cut, but also very tasty! There are several options for making a “striped” pie, but now we will prepare “Zebra” with kefir and without butter.

I learned to bake it as a child and continue to cook it. The cool appearance of the Zebra pie constantly makes it a table decoration, and the excellent taste of the pie will not leave anyone indifferent.

I try to pamper my family with baked goods as often as possible - buns, pies, muffins, scones and pizza! Over the years, I have collected many secrets for impeccable baking. Now I will share the recipe for “Zebra” pie made with kefir and vegetable oil. Heat the eggs for the most flawless results! Constantly gets 5 plus!

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Fluffy zebra pie

There are a lot of recipes for sweet homemade baked goods, and there are so many different pies out there. Now I would like to tell you how to prepare a delicious zebra pie with kefir. I think that almost everyone knows about the existence of such a pie, and they have been preparing it for many years. But having tried several options, I can confidently say that this zebra pie recipe turns out to be the most delicious and easiest to make. Now this is one of my favorite recipes, I hope you will appreciate it too.

You will spend very little time on production, because you don’t have to spend a long time fiddling with the dough or kneading it. Everything is simple here, whip, mix, bake. This zebra is quite sweet, so if you don’t like a lot of sugar, you can reduce its amount a little. The entire process of making zebra pie is shown in the recipe with step-by-step photos, so even beginners will not have any difficulties. You can also create a balloon with cherries, which turns out very tasty. I recommend baking such pastries, because it is so simple, and the taste will not leave anyone indifferent.

Ingredients:

Chicken egg – 3 pcs.
Sugar – 2 tbsp.
Drink – 1 tbsp.
Refined vegetable oil – 100 ml.
Salt - a pinch
Vanillin - a pinch
Slaked soda – 0.5 tsp
Wheat flour – 2 tbsp.
Cocoa powder – 3 tbsp

Number of servings: 12

Baking time: 40-45 minutes

Production method: in the oven

Calorie content: 298 kcal per 100 g

How to make zebra pie

To make a pie, you first need to create the dough. Pour sugar into a mixer bowl and beat in three eggs.

I beat for a short time, 2-3 minutes is enough, until a small foam forms.

Then pour in the drink, add vegetable oil, slaked soda or baking powder, salt and vanillin. It is very important that the oil be refined, because otherwise you will not get the same result in the end.

Using a whisk or mixer at low speed, mix everything. Now I’m pouring in the flour, which I add in one go and it’s better to sift it in advance.

After that, use a whisk or spatula to mix the flour into the rest of the mixture until a homogeneous mixture comes out. This kefir batter is suitable for various pies in the oven.

The zebra pie is made two-color, so I divide the resulting dough into two parts, and pour cocoa powder into one.

I stir in the cocoa with a spoon and get a wonderful chocolate color.

The baking pan needs to be prepared; to do this, I grease its sides with a piece of butter, and put a sheet of parchment on the bottom and secure the pan. The dough should be spooned out using a tablespoon.

In order for you to have the same zebra pie as in my recipe in the photo, you must adhere to the order of laying out the dough. First, I put 2 tablespoons of light dough in the center, then 2 tablespoons of chocolate dough in the middle of the light dough, and so on until the end.

The end result is a striped sketch like this, but that’s not all.

To make the baked goods even more attractive, you need a toothpick, with which I draw stripes along the dough from the middle to the edges. This sketch looks like a cobweb.

I bake the pie in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 40-45 minutes. I check its readiness with a toothpick, which must remain dry when piercing the pie. If so, then it is ready and I take it out of the oven.

I carefully remove the mold and parchment and transfer the finished deliciousness to a plate.

This zebra pie with kefir comes out very fluffy, savory and sweet. Definitely give it a try because it's worth it.

If desired, you can even create a cake from it by cutting it into several layers and spreading it with sour cream, for example. The recipe is quite good and comes out constantly.

The pie is great! I took a little more than a glass of sugar and the pie tasted perfect. The pie is very soft with a crispy crust on top. I recommend!

Thanks for your feedback! I'm very glad that you liked it.

This is luxury technology! Ordinary and always beautiful. Can be used in both square and rectangular shapes. Just add light and black dough in portions and make squiggles. my first pie 10 years ago was a zebra)) And I started mastering the slow cooker with it, almost the same composition as yours. It also comes out great. The crust is probably worse than in the oven, and even more fluffy.

try to create a zebra according to this recipe, it is indescribably delicious and better than others! I don’t really like baking in a slow cooker, I’m more used to the oven

I decided to make this pie for the first time using your recipe. He came out wonderful, so affectionate and shaggy that he wanted to eat another piece. Topped with more chocolate fudge, thanks for the recipe!

I really like this zebra) I’m glad that you liked it too))

Thank you very much for the recipe. My daughter makes this pie every week and taught us how to make it. It turns out very tasty.

This is a homemade recipe right now) very nice!

Simply delicious, even our dachshund stole a piece. And the kids are simply in ecstasy. It turned out to be a pleasant family tea party. My husband doesn’t really like baking, but he joined in here too.

I really love this pie and I’m glad that someone else was able to appreciate it) cook for your health)

I've never had anything so disgusting before. I don’t understand what I did wrong. Instead of kefir I had natural yogurt. I couldn’t force myself to knead TWO glasses of sugar, and added ONE incomplete glass - I don’t like very sweet things, and I always put less than in recipes - I’ve never had any problems. The dough rose at first and the pie itself was excellent. And later, during the cooling process, it COMPLETELY fell off on the table! The cut looks like soap! I thought that I could somehow save it with cream, like it would get wet and it would be like a dessert, but how annoying it may sound! Soap with cream came out :) I saw at the preparatory step of mixing, when I added slaked soda, there were no bubbles, but I thought that it was necessary. But I completely threw out the kefir dough from my own recipes, because at one point it didn’t work out, but then I had a recipe with jam in the dough, and by an experimental method I determined that the jam must be currant, or very sour, and this is not always available. But according to this recipe, you either need to use more vinegar for the soda, or a little more flour so that it rises and does not fall. Or under no circumstances is it permissible to replace the drink with yogurt...

It's a shame it didn't work out. The drink literally does not need to be replaced with yogurt, this has been tested! the bubbles should be from the reaction of soda with sour kefir. Add as much sugar as indicated in the recipe. and another option, maybe you took it out of the oven earlier than it was baked. Check the readiness with a toothpick constantly so that it is not moistened, not sticky, but dry!

I had the same thing. The dough is tasty, but raw. I think it is not permissible to pour in a cold drink. It needs to be poured in warm for the reaction to take place. I forgot about it myself. I remembered when I started adding flour... this had never happened before. I often baked zebra with kefir.

It didn’t work out for me either, I didn’t replace anything, I put in less sugar and it was a little sweet (((

Refined vegetable oil?

If the soda is old, it will not go out and there will be no bubbles.

then extinguish with vinegar

Thanks for the recipe. The pie is simply perfect!

you are beautiful! I'm glad you liked it!

I used 1 cup of sugar instead of 2 and it still came out very sweet(((

Well, everyone has different tastes, but we like it this way)

Is it possible / necessary to replace the drink with sour cream? How does this affect the final outcome/taste?

no, no need to replace it. The dough may be at its densest and will not have the appropriate airiness.

Hello. The pie is just super 👍👍👍. My kids and husband really liked it. They were in ecstasy. Now I cook it quite often. Thank you very much for the recipe.

and thank you for your feedback! cook for your health!

Zebra cake with kefir: step-by-step recipe

Russian cuisine has always been famous for its variety of baked goods: pies, gingerbreads, pies, rolls, pancakes. One of the similar products that appeared in Russian times is the “Zebra” cake with kefir, which is known for its simplicity and speed of production. This article will carefully tell you how to prepare 2 types of this pie: traditional and with poppy seeds.

Zebra pie with kefir: traditional recipe
Ingredients
Manufacturing method
Zebra cake with poppy seeds
Ingredients
Manufacturing method
Manufacturing secrets and tricks
Chocolate frosting recipe

Zebra pie with kefir: traditional recipe

It is not reliably clear in which specific year this pie originated. But his first recipe, later called “Traditional” and preserved to this day, spread among Russian housewives quite rapidly.

This was facilitated by the fact that its recipe used products that were available in any refrigerator. The second advantage of the Zebra cake is that the ingredients could be replaced with similar ones. For example: flour - semolina, and drink - sour cream or milk.

Ingredients

To make the dough for a traditional Zebra cake from kefir you will need:

drink: 200 ml (1 tbsp.);
premium or 1st grade flour: 250 g (2 tbsp.);
eggs: 3 pieces;
sugar: 160 g (1 tbsp.);
cocoa: 60 g (3 tablespoons without a slide);
baking soda: 10g (1 tsp without a slide);
vanillin: 10g (1 sachet).

Manufacturing method

The Zebra cake is prepared using the following method:

Break the eggs into a deep bowl and add sugar to them. Beat the resulting mass until it doubles in volume.
Pour the drink into another bowl and pour soda and vanillin into it.
Mix the kefir and egg mixtures together and gradually add sifted flour to them. Mix until a homogeneous fluid mass is formed without lumps.
Divide the dough into 2 parts. Add cocoa powder to one half and mix the resulting mass again.
Prepare a baking dish using one of the following methods:
1. From an alloy: cover the bottom with duralumin foil or parchment, and grease the walls with butter or sprinkle with flour.
2. From silicone: grease the walls with oil.
Place 2 tablespoons of light dough in the center of the mold and wait 1-2 minutes for it to spread.
Place the same amount of dark dough in the center of the light spot.
Repeat steps 6 and 7 until the pan is filled to the brim or the dough is complete.
Preheat the oven to 160–170º C and place the cake in it for 20–35 minutes. When finished, check readiness with a match or toothpick. If the outermost one is covered with watery dough, then you need to keep the pie in the oven for a couple more minutes.
Cool the cake and cut it using one of the following methods: into triangular pieces or into 2-3 shortcakes. In the second case, you can additionally lubricate them with butter cream or condensed milk.

This completes the making of the “Zebra” cake with kefir.

Zebra cake with poppy seeds

This version of the pie recipe is somewhat more difficult than the traditional one due to the fact that in addition to the dough, you also need to prepare the filling.

Ingredients

To make Zebra pie with poppy seeds you will need the following products:

dough;
flour: 250-300g (2 tbsp.);
water: 2 tbsp. l.;
salt: on the tip of a teaspoon;
butter: 100g (half a pack).
interior:
milk with 2.5% fat content – 600 ml (3 tbsp.);
butter: 100g;
testicles: 1 pc.;
homemade cottage cheese or with a fat content of 9%;
ground poppy seeds: 200g (1 tbsp.);
sugar: 200g (1.5 tbsp.);
semolina: 200g (1 tbsp.).

Manufacturing method

The Zebra cake with poppy inside is prepared as follows:

Sift the flour into a cup, add salt, water and grated butter. Mix the ingredients and place the resulting mass in the refrigerator for 10–15 minutes.
Pour the milk into the pan, and then add sugar and butter to it. Put it on the fire and bring the solution to a boil.
Mix poppy seeds and semolina, and then pour them into the milk. Cook until the semolina swells. After this, remove the pan from the heat.
Mix the cottage cheese with the egg using a fork or mixer. Divide the resulting mass into 3 equal parts. Add two of them to the manno-poppy mixture, and transfer 3 to another cup.
Take out the chilled dough and roll it out. Before rolling out, it is recommended to place it between 2 sheets of parchment so that it does not stick to the rolling pin. You can use flour instead of paper.
Grease the mold with oil and place the dough in the bottom.
Place the manno-poppy mixture in its center, and put the previously set aside cottage cheese in its middle.
Spread the filling moderately over the surface of the dough using a spoon or shaking the pan a couple of times.
Place the latter in the oven, preheated to 170–180º C for 1 hour.

This completes the production of the Zebra cake with poppy inside.

Manufacturing secrets and tricks

In order to create the most delicious and beautiful pie, you can use one of the following tips:

For production, it is best to use a drink with the highest fat content (7–8%), but one with a fat content of 3.2% is also suitable.
While baking a cake made according to a traditional recipe, the oven door must under no circumstances be opened. This will cause the dough to fall and become dense, not airy.
The sour circular sketch of the traditional Zebra cake made from kefir can be changed to a web-like one. To do this, before baking, place a toothpick or match in the center of the dough and use it to draw straight stripes to the side of the pan.
To enhance the chocolate flavor of the cake, you can cover it with icing.

Chocolate frosting recipe

To make this delicious decoration, the following products will be useful:

cocoa powder: 40–50g (2 tbsp);
sugar: 40–50g (2 tbsp);
butter: 50g (¼ pack);
sour cream: 2 tbsp. l.

Preparing the glaze is quite simple:

Place all ingredients in a saucepan and place on low heat.
Constantly stirring the mixture, bring it to a homogeneous fluid mass. It is not allowed to boil it, otherwise it will become unsuitable for future use.
Remove the pan from the heat and cool its contents.

This completes the making of the glaze. After cooling, it can be applied to the cake. You can also sprinkle it with something. Chopped nuts or multi-colored sprinkles.

Zebra cake with kefir is a delicacy with almost everyone’s favorite chocolate taste, which any housewife can prepare thanks to the ease of production and the availability of goods.