Happy Valentine's Day all! This is a special cake for a special someone which I baked last week as I'm currently away in Australia for a few weeks. It's a chocolate and raspberry zebra cake from BBC Good Food. This is my second time making a zebra cake and I'm impressed at how simple it is to make and yet how impressive it is. I'm really pleased that you can see the zebra effect on the cake. I used my I heart cake mould which gives you perfect heart shaped slices.
J's verdict is that the cake had a good presentation, an interesting texture which was quite velvety and you could actually taste the raspberries in it. The dense chocolate icing was really rich but not too sweet so the sweetness didn't overwhelm the gooeyness which was nice and just great with the fresh raspberries.
I will now be taking a little blog holiday and will be back in March when I am hosting AlphaBakes.
I'm sending this to several blog challenges this month starting with AlphaBakes hosted by Caroline from Caroline Makes and co hosted by myself. The letter this month is Z for Zebra cake.
Tea Time Treats hosted by Karen from Lavender and Lovage and co hosted by Jane from The Hedgecombers. The theme this month is chocolate.
Calendar Cakes hosted by Rachel from Dolly Bakes and Laura from Laura Loves Cakes. The theme this month is Oh L'Amour!
Four Seasons Food hosted by Anneli from Delicieux and Louisa from Eat Your Veg. The theme this month is 'Food from the Heart'
A new challenge called Love Cake hosted by Jibber Jabber UK. The theme this month is Baking with Passion.
Let's Cook Sweet Treats for Valentine hosted by Nayna from Simply Food.
making the raspberry batter 
chocolate batter and raspberry batter 
creating the zebra cake 
looks like a pretty flower...
zebra effect heart shaped slice 
definitely a zebra effect!
Recipe from BBC Good Food.
Very pretty, especially the inside! I'm sure J loved it :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks and yes I think he did :)
Deletestunning! (and annoyingly just what I was going to bake this weekend for AlphaBakes!
ReplyDeleteThanks! Great minds think alike :)
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DeleteThis cake looks delicious love the stripes.
ReplyDeletebeautiful!! I ove raspberries,and love zebra cake a
ReplyDeleteHappy valentine's day!
Such pretty slices! I keep meaning to try to a zebra stripe cake as they always look so effective. Hope you're having a lovely holiday!
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely worth trying - not as difficult as it looks
DeleteWhat a great cake that it has the heart shaped slices and the stripes inside. Thanks for linking up again to this month's Love Cake.
ReplyDeleteI love the zebra effect
ReplyDeleteLooks so lush, I love the zebra effect, so pretty. Enjoy your holiday :-) x
ReplyDeleteSo pretty, and such a cute cake tin aswell! I love zebra cakes, this reminds me I really want to try one myself sometime soon. Hope you're having a fab holiday!
ReplyDeleteI love the cake tin too :)
DeleteThats so pretty! Love the combination of chocolate and raspberries. And I must say your icing layer looks wonderfully thick and gooey - Mmmmmm :) Thanks for entering this into Four Seasons Food and have a nice break x
ReplyDeleteLovely zebra stripes you've got going on there!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cake! Brilliant the way you can cut out hearts too. Where did you get that tin????
ReplyDeleteI got the tin from findmeagift but if you google 'I heart cake mould' you'll find a few options.
DeleteThis looks beautiful! I love that you've used real raspberries to flavour and colour the sponge. I saw this on Lorraine Pascale's cookery show and thought it was a very clever idea.
ReplyDeleteYou can really taste the raspberries too!
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