This yummy cosy is a quick and easy project for intermediate level knitters.

For best results choose edible-looking colours – think chocolate, raspberry, vanilla cream, caramel, cherry red, fudge…. Yarn colour names can sometimes (not always) be a good guide.

You’ll need two colours for the body (less than 50g of each) plus about 25 metres of the base colour. The butter cream swirl looks best in yarn that is tightly spun, or get some dreaminess going by using yarn that has some mohair in it (about half a 50g ball). Add a length of Red for the cherry on top.

For the ultimate test knit pictured here, I used acrylic yarns that are readily available in South Africa: Family Knit DK - Claret for the base, the same yarn in Coral Rose for the front stripes, and Red for the cherry; for the background stripes I used Kismet Funky Stripes DK colour 302 (using only the caramel to cream sections), and Pure Gold Vanilla for the butter cream swirl.