The Amount of Calories in Zebra Cakes

Little Debbie Zebra Cakes, a small snack cake made of yellow cake with creme filling covered by white icing with fudge stripes, resemble the hide of a zebra. The calories in these sweet treats may contribute to your daily energy needs.

Calories

A 2.6 oz., two-cake serving of Little Debbie Zebra Cakes contains 330 calories, according to the CalorieKing website. This comprises 16.5 percent of the calories you may consume in a day if adhering to a 2,000-calorie diet.

Nutrients

Many of the calories in Little Debbie Zebra Cakes come from carbohydrates. A two-cake serving provides you with 47 g of carbohydrates, or 36 percent of the amount of carbohydrates recommended as part of daily consumption by the Institute of Medicine. Consider eating only one snack cake if you are concerned about overconsuming carbohydrates in your diet. Two snack cakes also contain 2 g of protein and 15 g of fat.

Fun Fact

Exercising to burn the calories contained in two Little Debbie Zebra Cakes may take over an hour. CalorieKing reports that you can walk for 92 minutes, ride your bicycle for 50 minutes, jog for 38 minutes or swim for 27 minutes to burn off these calories.

References

• CalorieKing: Little Debbie's Cakes: Zebra
• Little Debbie: Zebra Cakes
• Institute of Medicine: Dietary Reference Intakes