Easy Almond Cake

This cake isn’t baked in a loaf tin but in a ring mould, preferably a patterned one; and it’s a plain cake only in the sense that it isn’t filled or iced (though feel free). It’s densely almondy and eggily intense. And you know how you make it? You buy a block of ready-made marzipan and put it in the processor along with eggs, flour, sugar, butter and a sprinkle of extracts and blitz.

You could easily use a plain cake tin for this cake but I always use my Springform tube pan (not ha