Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, simnel cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Simnel cake is a traditional Easter fruitcake, packed with dried fruit and spices and topped with sweet marzipan. 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 one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Simnel cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have simnel cake using 30 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Simnel cake:
- Take For the marzipan:
- Get 100 g ground almonds
- Make ready 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Make ready 2 free-range egg yolks
- Prepare 2 tbsp. lemon juice
- Make ready For the cake:
- Prepare 5 tbsp. milk
- Make ready 1 good pinch of saffron
- Take 150 g raisins
- Get 150 g sultanas
- Make ready 40 g brandy, vin santo or white rum
- Prepare 50 g bleached almonds
- Take 175 g plain flour
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 45 g ground almonds
- Get 1/2 tsp fine salt
- Take 2 tsp mixed spice
- Prepare 180 g butter, at room temperature
- Make ready 180 g soft, light brown sugar
- Make ready 3 eggs
- Get 1 tbsp. golden syrup
- Make ready zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange
- Take 50 g glacé cherries, halved
- Get 50 g mixed peel
- Get apricot jam, to brush over the cake
- Prepare For the icing:
- Make ready 30 g caster sugar
- Prepare 25 g butter
- Take 20 g lemon juice
- Prepare 110 g icing sugar
We've got light and fruity simnel cakes. 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. A rich fruit cake which includes lumps of marzipan stirred into the mixture that melts and combines with all the other flavours during cooking. The simnel cake is a classic cake for Easter appears sometime around the end of Lent.
Instructions 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.
The cake signifies the end of Lent which is a period of fasting and repentance culminating in a feast of seasonal. The Simnel Cake has a very long history dating back to Medieval times. Simnel Cake - a British Easter tradition. A light fruitcake with a layer. Waitrose traditional Simnel cake recipe perfect for Easter entertaining.
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