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Party Animal Zebra Cake

May 31, 2016 by layercakeparade

Party Animal Zebra Cake

I forced this Party Animal Zebra Cake into existence.

Party Animal Zebra Cake

It did not come together without a struggle. This whole cake idea was a medium to display my lovely disco mirror balls. My impulsive mirror ball purchase was inspired by Studio DIY’s funky throwback post back in November. I know I’ve been over thinking this theme WAY too long. Once I purchased the disco balls, I knew I wanted to make a cake. What kind? I didn’t have a clue.

Party Animal Zebra Cake

 

This Party Animal Zebra Cake was a jigsaw puzzle of sorts. I wedged all of the components together—cake, filling, and frosting—even if there were major issues.

Party Animal Zebra Cake

 

To make a zebra patterned cake, you need to use a very soup, spreadable batter. Most tutorials for this pattern use boxed cake mixes. Unwilling to take the cake mix route, I thought I could use a basic yellow cake, add liquid, divide, mix in cocoa and pour.

 

Wrong.

So, so, so wrong.

Party Animal Zebra Cake

Though the finished product looks really groovy, the texture is far from being a cake. It has the texture of the magic custard bars . Edible and tasty, but most normal-people except cake texture. I didn’t have the recipe at the time, but I came across a decent thing battered vanilla cake that would form the zebra print pattern.

Party Animal Zebra Cake

 

The Party Animal Zebra Cake need for animal-i-ness, so I used Beyond Frosting’s  Circus Animal frosting recipe. A clean layer of simple vanilla buttercream made the disco balls the focal feature. This cake was definitely a bake and learn experience, but I guess I’ll just have to bake again.

Since I baked this cake I have found a lovely vanilla cake batter, but I have yet to try out the zebra technique with it.

Filed Under: Blog, Cake Parade Tagged With: disco cake, party animal zebra cake, zebra stripe cake

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