Orange Coco Butter Cake

When my sweet little girl saw me slicing up the cake and the stripes patterns appeared, she exclaimed : "Mummy you made a tiger cake! So cool!" and she imitated to roar like a tiger at the same time....hahaha ok that means I'm successful in making this cake looks like tiger cake ^0^.

This is a simple orange coco butter cake. The black stripes is actually made with black cocoa powder instead of the usual cocoa powder! The price is rather steep too, 200gm about S$9++. You can just use normal cocoa powder like hershey brand if you can't get hold of the black version one. 

Ingredient (7" round cake)

• 250gm butter
• 170gm castor sugar
• 4 large eggs
• 200gm plain flour
• 50gm cake flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 100ml fresh orange juice
• 2 tsp fresh orange zests
• 1/2 tsp orange extract
• orange food colouring 
• 15gm black cocoa powder

Method

1. Sift flour and baking powder together, set aside.
2. Using a electric whisk, cream butter and sugar until creamy.
3. Add in eggs, one at a time, beat well after each addition. 
4. Fold in flour, alternate with orange juice. Ending with flour mixture and fold till well incorporated.
5. Divide batter into 2 portions, approx. 500gm each.
6. Add in orange zest and extract into one portion. Fold in cocoa powder into the other portion.
7. Spoon each batter alternately into a lined 7" cake pan. 
8. Bake in preheated oven at 160 deg cel for 50-60 mins or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
9. Cool in pan for 10mins. Unmould and cool completely on a wire rack before slicing.