Finnish Tiikerikkakku, Tiger Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 cup margarine or 1 cup butter
    2 cups sugar
    5 eggs
    2 cups all-purpose flour
    2 teaspoons baking powder
    2 teaspoons vanilla
    zest and juice of one orange
    2 tablespoons dark cocoa
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F
    Grease and flour a bundt pan.
    Beat butter and sugar together until creamy.
    Sift together flour and baking powder.
    Alternatively, add eggs and flour to the batter until all are combined.
    Stir in vanilla.
    Place 1/3 of cake batter into separate mixing bowl; stir in cocoa and juice of 1/2 orange.
    In original bowl, stir in all of orange zest and juice of remaining 1/2 orange.
    Spread 1/3 of orange batter evenly in bottom of bundt pan.
    Gently dribble half of chocolate batter on top with a spoon or frosting bag.
    Repeat layers, ending with orange batter on top.
    Bake on center rack of oven for 1 hour or until cake tests done.

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