Tiger-Striped (Tiger) Cake

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 1 cup oil
• 1 cup milk
• 1½ cups sugar
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 2 cups flour
• a pinch of salt
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• Tiger cake recipe and method from a cook and friend of the Sho Tabkhin Al-Yawm website:
• Fatima Zahwi Ghamloush
• Click Fatima's name to visit her page on our site.
• For more sweet recipes from Fatima click the following link: Kunafa with puff pastry.
• To make a very special cake, here's the link: How to make coconut sprinkle cake.

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C.
2. Beat the eggs and sugar with an electric or hand mixer until you get a thick, pale mixture.
3. Add the vanilla and oil and continue beating.
4. Add the milk and beat again.
5. Add the dry ingredients and beat to obtain a homogeneous batter.
6. Divide the batter into two parts.
7. Add the cocoa to the first portion and stir.
8. Grease the pan with butter and dust it with flour.
9. Spoon a ladle or soup spoon of the white batter into the pan, then a ladle of the cocoa batter on top of it... continue alternating until all the batter is used.
10. Put the pan into the hot oven and bake at 180°C for about 40–45 minutes depending on the oven's strength.
11. Let the tiger cake cool at room temperature, then serve.
12. Fatima Zahwi Ghamloush
13. For more sweet recipes from Fatima click the following link: Kunafa with puff pastry.
14. To make a very special cake, here's the link: How to make coconut sprinkle cake.