Zebra Cake

This recipe belongs to a friend Aparna Mallya who owns a blog Apycooking. Do go through her wonderful recipes here

Ingredients:
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup milk
1 cup oil
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 tbsp baking powder
2 tbsp dark cocoa powder

Method:
Grease a 9" round cake pan. Set aside.
Preheat the oven to 350F.In a large bowl, beat 4 eggs one by one. Add sugar and whisk until the mixture is creamy. 
Add vanilla, oil and milk and continue whisking until well blended.
Sift flour and  baking powder and combine in a separate bowl. Add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture, little by little and blend as you add.
Divide the batter equally into two containers. To one, add 2 tbsp of cocoa powder and mix well. 
So now you have one portion of batter for the dark stripes and another for the cream stripes. Take two ladles that hold abt 3 to 4 tbsps of batter. Pour one ladleful of dark batter into the middle of the 9" pan. Pour a ladleful of cream batter right on top of the dark batter. What the second batter does is, it pushes the first batter and lays on top of it, such that the first batter spreads in the pan. You don't have to spread the batter manually. Alternate with the dark and cream batter till u finifh off with both the batters
Now very carefully place the pan into the oven. Make sure you don't tilt it as you place it.Bake for 40 to 45 minutes or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean