Finnish Tiger Cake Recipe

Name: Finnish Tiger Cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 140 min
Ingredients: 1 cup margarine (or butter); 2 cups sugar; 5 large eggs; 2 cups all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 2 teaspoons vanilla; 1 orange (zest and juice); 2 tablespoons dark cocoa powder (we use Hershey's "Special Dark")

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 60 mins

Total Time: 70 mins

Total: 2 hrs 20 mins

Servings: 20 servings

Yield: 1 cake

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Many Scandinavian and Scandinavian-American cookbooks contain at least one recipe for Tiger Cake or tiikerikkakku. This easy-to-prepare marbled Bundt cake or kugelhopf-type cake is considered a coffee cake in Finland. We believe the moniker “tiger cake” comes from the swirled appearance of the crumb, reminiscent of a tiger’s markings. Coffee cakes appear at everything from family gatherings to fancy affairs in Finland. Here's one version of Finnish Tiger Cake, marbled with luscious chocolate and orange layers.

1 cup margarine, or unsalted butter
2 cups sugar
5 large eggs
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 orange, zested and juiced
2 tablespoons dark cocoa powder (e.g., Hershey's "Special Dark")

Gather the ingredients.
Place the rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 F. Grease and flour a Bundt pan or kugelhopf pan or a babka pan.
Beat butter and sugar together until creamy.
Sift together flour and baking powder. Alternately, add eggs and flour to the batter until all are combined. Stir in vanilla.
Place 1/3 of cake batter into a separate mixing bowl and stir in cocoa powder and juice of 1/2 orange.
In the original bowl containing the majority of the batter, stir in all of the orange zest and the juice of the remaining 1/2 orange.
Spread 1/3 of orange batter evenly in the bottom of the prepared Bundt pan.
Gently dribble half of the chocolate batter on top with a spoon or frosting bag. Repeat layers, ending with orange batter on top.
Bake on the center rack of the oven for 1 hour. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes.
Then invert onto the wire rack to cool completely.
Serve and enjoy!

Nutrition Facts (per serving)
258	Calories
11g	Fat
38g	Carbs
4g	Protein

Nutrition Facts
Servings: 20
Amount per serving
Calories	258
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 11g	14%
Saturated Fat 2g	11%
Cholesterol 47mg	16%
Sodium 44mg	2%
Total Carbohydrate 38g	14%
Dietary Fiber 2g	7%
Total Sugars 26g
Protein 4g
Vitamin C 37mg	184%
Calcium 48mg	4%
Iron 1mg	6%
Potassium 145mg	3%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.