Cinnamon Swirl Marble Cake

"I set out to make the cinnamon marble cake and recalled an abysmally failed marbling from a couple of years back. Off onto the YouTube I went and marvelled at assorted zebra cakes, dainty Japanese marbled sponges, swirly pink veins running through pound cakes – and after about two hours of blissful time wasting found the two colour butter cake that I was after. Use a knife, said one guru. Don’t use a knife! , warned the other. Chequered lumps of batter and at least three layers, instructed the third. Use a loaf tin for best effects, commanded another. Spoilt for choice – no wonder shopping for bathroom tiles makes us depressed. I ended up, of course, doing it in a random pattern, hotchpotch way, using a chopstick. It came out all right. Incredibly easy and lovely cake too, marbling aside."

Preparation Time20 min

Cooking Time45 min