Mix the espresso powder with 3 tablespoons of hot water, let it cool down. Cream fat, salt, sugar and 1 packet of vanilla sugar. Stir in the eggs one by one. Mix flour and baking powder, alternately stir in the cream. Halve the dough. Stir into one half of the espresso, 1 packet of vanillin sugar and cocoa. Grease a ring cake tin (approx. 1.75 litres capacity) and dust with flour.
Fill the dough alternately into the mould. Use a fork to pull spirally through the dough to create a marble pattern. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for 55-60 minutes. Cover if necessary after about 40 minutes baking time. Remove from the oven, leave to rest in the mould for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a cake rack. Dust with icing sugar. Decorate with candles
Tip: You can also bake the dough in 4 small moulds (approx. 350 ml each). The baking time is then about 30 minutes, at the same temperature