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Tiger Cake

Source of Recipe


From "Bittersweet" by Alice Medrich






List of Ingredients



• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  
• 1/2 cup plus 2 cups granulated sugar, divided
  
• 1/3 cup water
  
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
  
• 2 tsp baking powder
  
• 1/2 tsp salt
  
• 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
  
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
  
• 1/2 tsp finely ground white pepper
  
• 1/2 tsp ground mace
  
• 5 cold large eggs
  
• 1 cup cold milk
  






Instructions



1. Position a rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees (F). Grease and flour a 10- to 12-cup tube or Bundt pan, or line two 6-cup loaf pans with parchment paper.
   
   
2. In a small bowl, whisk cocoa, 1/2 cup sugar and water together until well blended. Set aside. Mix flour, baking powder and salt thoroughly. Sift together onto a piece of wax paper and set aside.
   
   
3. In a large mixer bowl (with a whisk attachment if you have it), beat 2 cups sugar, oils, vanilla, pepper and mace until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Continue to beat until the mixture is thick and pale, 3 to 5 minutes. Stop the mixer and add one-third of the flour mixture. Beat on low speed until blended. Stop the mixer and add half of the milk. Beat just until blended. Repeat with another third of flour, remaining milk, and then the remaining flour.
   
   
4. Pour 3 cups of the batter into a separate bowl and stir in cocoa mixture. Pour one-third of the pale batter into the prepared tube pan (or divide between the loaf pans) and top with one-third of the chocolate batter. Repeat with remaining batters. The layers don't need to be smooth or even -- the batters will marble during baking.
   
   
5. Bake until a cake tester comes out clean, about 1 hour for either pan. Cool cake in the pan on a rack for about 15 minutes. Slide a skewer around the tube pan or a thin knife around the sides of the loaf pans. Invert the pan and invert again, setting the cake right side up on a rack to cool completely. (Remove paper from loaves.)
   
   Yield: 12 to 16 slices