Best Finnish Tiikerikkakku Tiger Cake Recipes

FINNISH TIIKERIKKAKKU, TIGER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F
• 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 or until cake tests done.

TIGER CAKE

Steps:

• Brush the inside of 2 8-9 cup bundt pans with melted butter and coat with crumbs.
• (you can spray and flour if you must).
• Preheat oven to 375.
• Whip egg yolks with 9 oz of sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add milk and cooled melted butter.
• Sift flour and baking powder together and mix into butter mixture.
• Whip egg whites until foamy.
• Very gradually add remaining 9 oz of sugar and whip just to stiff peaks.
• Carefully fold butter/flour mixture into whipped egg whites with a spatula.
• Sift cocoa powder into a bowl and gradually stir in 1/3 of the batter.
• Mix the lemon zest and vanilla into the remaining 2/3 of the batter.
• Spoon 1/4 of the white batter into each of the bundt pans and smooth.
• Spoon 1/2 of the chocolate batter into each of the bundt pans and smooth.
• Spoon remaining white batter equally into each bundt pan.
• Swirll batter in each pan with a knife.
• Bake for about 40 minutes or until cakes tests done.
• Cool 20 minutes and unmold onto a rack to cool completely.