Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, easter simnel cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Simnel cake was traditionally given by servant girls to their mothers when they returned home on Mothering Sunday and it's now become a classic Easter cake. By Mary Berry Share Bake this classic Easter simnel cake. I added some almond essence to the batter as well as a little cinnamon allspice ginger and nutmeg.
Easter Simnel Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Easter Simnel Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook easter simnel cake using 18 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Easter Simnel Cake:
- Take 175 g raisins
- Make ready 175 g sultanas
- Make ready 50 g mixed peel, chopped if necessary
- Prepare 4 tbsp brandy, whisky or golden or dark rum
- Make ready 50 g whole skinned almonds
- Get 175 g self raising flour
- Take 45 g ground almonds
- Prepare 1/2 tsp fine salt
- Make ready 11/2 tsp mixed spice
- Make ready 180 g butter, softened
- Get 180 g soft, light brown sugar
- Take 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- Take Zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange
- Get 50 g glacé cherries, halved
- Get 1 tbsp golden syrup
- Prepare 75 ml milk
- Take 700 g marzipan
- Get Sugar syrup, apricot jam or marmalade, to top
The marzipan balls on the top represent the eleven apostles minus Judas and this cake is traditionally eaten before or during Easter. A simnel cake is a traditional Easter cake and the eleven balls of marzipan represent the eleven disciples. My new cake stand As an Easter simnel cake looks really impressive with the toasted marzipan balls on the top, I was pleased to have a chance to use my new VonShef ceramic cake stand with its glass dome. Some people just put a large ball in the centre of the cake to signify Jesus.
Steps to make Easter Simnel Cake:
- Mix the raisins, sultanas and dried peel in a bowl and pour in the rum, stir, cover and leave to soak. You can do this a couple of hours ahead if you want to.
- Butter a 20in loose bottomed cake tin, then line the base and sides with baking parchment. Cut a second disc of parchment the same size as the base, and set aside for later. Heat the oven to 130C/1/2 Gas.
- Gently toast the whole almonds in a medium oven until golden, keep an eye on them, set aside to cool. Put the flour, baking powder, ground almonds, salt and mixed spice in a large bowl, whisk together to mix and lose any lumps.
- Beat the softened butter in a food processor, or with an electric beater or a vigorously applied wooden spoon until soft, then beat in the sugar. Continue beating until light and fluffy.
- Add the beaten egg to the mixture, a little at a time, continuing to mix. Add a little flour in between the egg to prevent curdling.
- Add the remaining flour mixture and the orange and lemon zests, and fold in with a metal spoon.
- Roughly chop the toasted almonds and add to the mixture.
- Add the cherries, soaked fruit and rum, and golden syrup to the bowl, and mix well, then stir in the milk so you have a soft dropping consistency.
- Add half of the cake mixture to the tin, and smooth level. Roll out about 200g of the marzipan to a disc just smaller than your tin, and place on top of the cake mixture.
- Spoon the rest of the cake mixture in to the tin, smooth the top, and gently place the disc of baking parchment on top. Bake in the oven for 2 and a half hours. This is an unusually long, slow bake, but the end result was perfect.
- When the cake is cooked (test with a skewer), remove from the oven and allow to cool in the tin until you can handle it, then remove the tin and baking parchment.
- To decorate brush the top of the cake with warmed apricot jam or marmalade. Roll out a disk of marzipan and use the base of the tin to cut an exact circle. Place on top of the cake.
- Form an edging of marzipan to fit round the outside of the top and mark with a fork. Toast briefly under the grill if you wish until golden. Stick on with more jam.
- Fill the centre with thick glacé icing and decorate with little eggs or other Easter decorations.
If you want a traditional Easter Simnel cake recipe, but one that's a little easier to prepare, then this is the recipe for you. It's essentially a traybake version of the classic Easter bake and. Simnel cakes and hot cross buns are the traditional staples of an indulgent Easter weekend. Simnel cake is a light fruit cake, similar to a Christmas cake, covered in marzipan, and eaten at Easter in Great Britain and Ireland. This recipe has been submitted by the Good Food community.
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