Recipe of Simnel cake

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Simnel cake is a traditional Easter fruitcake, packed with dried fruit and spices and topped with sweet marzipan. This traditional Easter cake is not often seen these days. I've never attempted a Simnel Cake before as my late mother traditionally made our family cake, but I decided to make this as a reminder of happy Easters spent together.

Simnel cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Simnel cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

Easiest Way to Prepare Simnel cake

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook simnel cake using 30 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Simnel cake:

1. Make ready For the marzipan:
2. Take 100 g ground almonds
3. Prepare 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
4. Take 2 free-range egg yolks
5. Make ready 2 tbsp. lemon juice
6. Make ready For the cake:
7. Make ready 5 tbsp. milk
8. Make ready 1 good pinch of saffron
9. Make ready 150 g raisins
10. Prepare 150 g sultanas
11. Get 40 g brandy, vin santo or white rum
12. Make ready 50 g bleached almonds
13. Prepare 175 g plain flour
14. Take 1 tsp baking powder
15. Prepare 45 g ground almonds
16. Make ready 1/2 tsp fine salt
17. Prepare 2 tsp mixed spice
18. Take 180 g butter, at room temperature
19. Make ready 180 g soft, light brown sugar
20. Prepare 3 eggs
21. Get 1 tbsp. golden syrup
22. Make ready zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange
23. Take 50 g glacé cherries, halved
24. Take 50 g mixed peel
25. Make ready apricot jam, to brush over the cake
26. Get For the icing:
27. Take 30 g caster sugar
28. Prepare 25 g butter
29. Prepare 20 g lemon juice
30. Make ready 110 g icing sugar

Traditionally simnel cake is a light and moist fruit cake with a layer of marzipan or almond paste running through the middle and on top. This cake is traditionally served on Mothering Sunday. A rich fruit cake which includes lumps of marzipan stirred into the mixture that melts and combines with all the other flavours during cooking. A proper Easter bake. "This traditional Easter treat is a great one to make with kids - they'll love rolling out the marzipan, but leave any.

Instructions

Instructions to make Simnel cake:

1. Put the raisins and sultanas in a mixing bowl or a small zip lock bag. Heat up the spirits to almost boiling, pour it into the fruit and mix well. Seal the bag or cover the bowl and leave for a few hours, best overnight, to soak.
2. Butter and line with parchment a 20cm deep cake tin. Prepare another disc of parchment the size of the tin to place on top of the cake, to stop it from burning. Preheat the oven to 150C/300F/gas 2.
3. Warm up the milk and put the saffron strands into it to soak. Toast the almonds in a dry frying pan or in hot oven on a baking tray for 10-15 minutes until they turn golden. Cool and chop roughly.
4. Mix the flour with the baking powder, ground almonds, salt and mixed spice and put to one side. Beat the butter in an electric mixer, add the sugar and beat well until the mixture turns pale and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating continuously, alternating with a little flour mix. Beat in the rest of the flour, golden syrup, zest and the milk with saffron.
5. Drain the soaked fruit if necessary – but all the liquid should have been absorbed. Stir them into the cake batter together with the chopped almonds, peel and glace cherries.
6. Take the marzipan out of the fridge and roll it out on a surface dusted with icing sugar to a disc the size of your tin. Spoon half the cake batter into the tin, place the marzipan disc in and spoon the rest of the cake mix on top.
7. Smooth the surface with a spatula and place the parchment disc on top.
8. Bake the cake for about 1 ¾ - 2 hours until a skewer inserted in the middle (not too deep because of the marzipan layer) comes out clean. Cool in the tin, unmould and brush the top and sides with the apricot jam warmed up slightly in a small pan.
9. To make the icing, bring the butter, caster sugar and lemon juice to the boiling point then pour over the icing sugar. Whisk to a smooth paste, add some yellow food colouring for extra Easter cheer.
10. Spread the icing over the top of the cake with a palette knife, making sure no crumbs mix into the icing and spoil the effect. Leave to set.

The Simnel cake is an age old tradition for Mothers Day and dates right back to medieval times There is no single recipe for Simnel cake and each region of England had its own version which - of. Just made this Simnel Cake and it came together beautifully. The simnel cake is a classic cake for Easter appears sometime around the end of Lent. The cake signifies the end of Lent which is a period of fasting and repentance culminating in a feast of seasonal. Find simnel cake stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection.

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