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Simnel cake is a fruitcake widely eaten in the United Kingdom, Ireland and other countries with patterns of migration from them, associated with Lent and Easter. 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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook simnel cake using 30 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Simnel cake:
- Prepare For the marzipan:
- Make ready 100 g ground almonds
- Get 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Prepare 2 free-range egg yolks
- Prepare 2 tbsp. lemon juice
- Prepare For the cake:
- Take 5 tbsp. milk
- Prepare 1 good pinch of saffron
- Get 150 g raisins
- Get 150 g sultanas
- Get 40 g brandy, vin santo or white rum
- Take 50 g bleached almonds
- Prepare 175 g plain flour
- Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
- Get 45 g ground almonds
- Get 1/2 tsp fine salt
- Get 2 tsp mixed spice
- Take 180 g butter, at room temperature
- Take 180 g soft, light brown sugar
- Get 3 eggs
- Make ready 1 tbsp. golden syrup
- Make ready zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange
- Prepare 50 g glacé cherries, halved
- Take 50 g mixed peel
- Make ready apricot jam, to brush over the cake
- Prepare For the icing:
- Take 30 g caster sugar
- Get 25 g butter
- Make ready 20 g lemon juice
- Prepare 110 g icing sugar
A Simnel cake is a type of fruit cake that contains plenty of marzipan and is eaten at Easter Like most British food eaten during winter and early spring, the Simnel cake contains lots of dried fruit, but. Simnel cake is like a fruit cake but with three layers of marzipan to add moisture and flavour to the I have strong memories of my Grandmother making Simnel cake at Easter. A simnel cake is a key part of Easter baking. This simnel cake will keep in an.
Steps to make Simnel cake:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Smooth the surface with a spatula and place the parchment disc on top.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
A simnel cake is a key part of Easter baking. This simnel cake will keep in an. A simnel cake is like a plum pudding inside a crust. The inside part is made from flour, spices, dried Simnel Cakes are often decorated. In the past, it was fresh flowers.
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