Tiger cake with Christmas spices – Delicious coffee cake for the Christmas table

For Christmas, the cake gets delicious new spices and an irresistible chocolate frosting. Here comes the Christmas tiger cake!

Tiger cake wears a Christmas outfit. Pasi Liesimaa

A Christmas coffee table is not complete without dry cake. This is the opinion of many, and no wonder. Cakes baked in the oven, seasoned with Christmas spices, bring the smell of Christmas to the whole home.

This Christmas, a tiger cake will be put in the oven, the stripes of which will delight the coffee table. Instead of the traditional recipe, Christmas spices are slipped into the cake this time.

Tiger cake is a real coffee cake classic, and it’s easy to make as long as you remember to separate the dough into two separate bowls.

Christmas tiger cake

2 eggs

2 dl sugar

100 g/1 dl melted fat

2 dl of milk

3.5 dl wheat flour

1.5 teaspoons of baking powder

1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar

2 teaspoons of cinnamon

1 teaspoon cloves

1 teaspoon of ginger

1 tablespoon of cocoa powder

Frosting:

0.75 dl of whipped cream

100 g dark chocolate or milk chocolate

For decoration:

peppermint candies

sprinkles

1. Whip the eggs and sugar.

2. Add the melted and cooled fat and mix. Pour half of the batter into another bowl.

3. Mix the dry ingredients together, except for the cocoa powder. When the dry ingredients have been mixed, pour half of the flour mixture into a new bowl and mix in the cocoa powder.

4. Mix one deciliter of milk and a light flour mixture into the dough.

5. Mix one deciliter of milk and the dark flour mixture into the second dough.

6. Pour half of the light dough into a greased and floured ring pan.

7. Then pour the dark batter on top to form the stripes of the tiger cake.

8. Pour the rest of the light dough over the dark dough.

6. Bake the cake at 175 degrees on the lower level of the oven for about 45 minutes.

7. Turn the cake over and let it cool.

8. Prepare the frosting by heating the cream in a saucepan almost to the boiling point. Chop the chocolate into the hot cream and stir gently until the chocolate has melted.

9. Pour the frosting over the cake and decorate with sprinkles and peppermint candies.

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