Orange & Chocolate pound cake

I made this Orange and Chocolate pound cake for Lana's nursery teachers who have been very nice to Lana (and me) since she started going there in April.

It's a variation of vanilla pound cake. The basic ingredient for a pound cake is equal amount of eggs, sugar, flour and butter (I usually weigh the eggs so that I know exactly how many grams of other ingredients I need), and you can vary it by adding chocolate, jams or flavourings whatever you fancy.

For this cake, I divided the batter into two potions and added orange juice to one, and chocolate to the other. For the butter cream, I added orange marmalade and also poured marmalade syrup over the cake before I sprinkled it with bits of dark chocolate and white chocolate.

I had a slice to taste it. It was lovely. Nice and moist, the refreshing flavour of orange went really well with the chocolate and the sweet butter cream.

The nursery teachers loved the cake too. They told me more cakes are welcome any time...;)

Tiger cake

This lovely marble cake is called Tiikerikkakku, meaning Tiger cake. Does that look like a tiger? Hum, yes I think it does...

I love marble cakes because they look like you put a lot of effort although the process is quite easy. The beauty of a marble cake is that you can arrange the recipe in many way. It works with not only chocolate but also, strawberry, blueberry, caramel, all sorts! You never know how the marble patter is going to come out. Wait and see until you put the knife in... Tiger? or zebra... cow.. what's yours look like?

To see the recipe, visit The World of Sweets Recipes, Tiger cake.