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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. 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.

Simnel cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Simnel cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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

We've got light and fruity simnel cakes, muffins, tarts and even a cocktail. Capture the traditional marzipan flavour of simnel in a range of Easter bakes. 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. La "Simne cake" è un dolce di origine inglese, preparato durante le festivitá pasquali.

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. La "Simne cake" è un dolce di origine inglese, preparato durante le festivitá pasquali. La parola simnel deriva dalla parola similia che in latino significa grano tenero. The traditional Easter cake, with saffron and citrus peel and topped with marzipan, is the very essence of spring. Simnel Cake is an Easter classic that comes at just the right time after Christmas to fill the need for a good.

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