Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, simnel cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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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. A simnel cake is a key part of Easter baking.

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

The ingredients needed to make Simnel cake:

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

We've got light and fruity simnel cakes. 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. This recipe was easy to follow. Simnel cake is that rare thing - an Easter treat that doesn't contain even a whiff of chocolate.

Steps 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.

Instead, this richly-fruited confection is topped with sweet, nutty marzipan, making it perfectly suited to end the. Simnel Cake is an Easter classic - apparently it has been eaten since Medieval times as both a sweet treat and a symbolic ritual and traditionally is made as one large cake topped. 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. The Simnel Cake has a very long history dating back to Medieval times. Simnel Cake - a British Easter tradition.

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