Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Yumm yumm Tiger Cake

Tiger cake a.k.a Finnish Tiikerikakku mostly popular in Scandinavian part of Europe is so delicious and so easy to make!

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes

Yield: 20 slices of Tiger Cake

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup margarine or butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • Zest and juice of one orange.
  • 2 Tbsp. dark cocoa


Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350º. Grease and flour a bundt pan. Beat butter and sugar together until creamy. Sift together flour and baking powder. Alternatively, add eggs and flour to the batter until all are combined. Stir in vanilla. Place 1/3 of cake batter into separate mixing bowl; stir in cocoa and juice of 1/2 orange. In original bowl, stir in all of orange zest and juice of remaining 1/2 orange. Spread 1/3 of orange batter evenly in bottom of bundt pan. Gently dribble half of chocolate batter on top with a spoon or frosting bag. Repeat layers, ending with orange batter on top. Bake on center rack of oven for 1 hour. Yield: 20 slices of Tiger Cake.

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