• Setting the Stripes on a Tiger (Cake)

    Setting the Stripes on a Tiger (Cake)

    A tiger skin cake forms a distinctive pattern of light and dark patches as it bakes. Its current popularity seems to have expanded outward from China; I found a lot of Swiss-roll-style recipes that use it as an outer wrapper. Here, researchers look at how the wrinkled surface forms. The viscous batter quickly forms a…