Tiger Cake

Though it is called marble cake in English, the Swedish name is tigerkaka or tiger cake - 虎のケーキ. Naoko has a lot of nice cakes up her sleeve, but this was one she hasn't tried before. Now with recipe below!

Tiger cake (for the round cake form of 18cm diameter)

Ingredients

• Butter 140 g
• Sugar 140 g (I used only ca 100 g)
• 3 eggs (divide them into egg yolk and egg white)
• Milk 20 ml
• Vanilla powder/essence
• Flour 170 g
• Baking powder 3 g
• Cocoa powder 10 g
• Sugar (to be mixed with cocoa powder) 10 g

1. Put small amount of butter around the form. Warm up the oven around 160-170 degrees.
2. Mix flour and baking powder and put them through a sieve.
3. Put cocoa powder and sugar in a small bowl, add hot water little by little gradually and make cream. Make sure you do not add too much hot water. It is good to make the consistency of the cream to that of mayonnaise.
4. Microwave butter just a bit so that it is soft (but NOT melted) and whip it with a whisk.
5. Add sugar gradually (you can divide the sugar into 2-3) and mix it by rubbing the sugar into butter. Mix it to the extent that the mixture becomes white and creamy.
6. Add egg yolk and mix it thoroughly until it becomes creamy.
7. Whip egg white in another bowl until it is hard and can make a horn when you lift the whisk.
8. Blend half of the whipped egg white (7) in 6, using wooden spatula. Blend it as if you are cutting the mixture, so that you do not kill the foam.
9. Blend half of the flour and baking powder (2) in 8 with wooden spatula, as if you are cutting the mixture. Once the first half is sufficiently blended, add the remaining flour and baking powder and blend. Be careful not to kill the foam.
10. Add the remaining of the whipped egg white and blend it in 9 similarly to how it is done earlier with wooden spatula.
11. Make cocoa dough by take approximately one-fifth of 10 and and mix it into 3.
12. Add the cocoa dough sparsely in 10. Do not mix too much so as not to lose the tiger pattern.
13. Put the dough into the form. Be careful not to destroy the tiger pattern.
14. Even the surface and put the form in the middle level of the oven. Bake it in the oven (160-170 degrees) for 40 minutes. Once baked, take it out of the form and cool it down on a grid.