Tiger Cake

This is the designer version of coffee cake—no two patterns of the light and dark batters ever turn out quite the same. Very popular all over Europe, these cakes are also known as marble cakes. Alternatively, if you leave out the cocoa powder altogether this recipe makes a very nice pound cake with a hint of lemon. If you would like to make 2 plain cakes and 2 tiger cakes, divide the batter in half and add the zest of 1 lemon and half of the vanilla to one portion of the batter. Divide the