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Bake this classic Easter simnel cake. 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. This traditional Easter cake is not often seen these days.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easter simnel cake using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easter Simnel Cake:

1. Make ready 100 Grams almonds whole blanched
2. Take 500 Grams marzipan golden
3. Make ready 225 Grams all purpose flour
4. Take 3 Teaspoons baking powder
5. Take 1 Teaspoon mixed spice
6. Take 150 Grams brown sugar soft light
7. Prepare 150 Grams butter , softened
8. Make ready 2 Tablespoons milk whole
9. Make ready 3 eggs large , beaten
10. Prepare 1 egg yolk , beaten
11. Make ready 411 Grams christmas mince
12. Prepare 350 Grams dried fruit mixed
13. Make ready 50 Grams whole candied peel
14. Make ready 1 orange , zested
15. Take 1 lemon , zested
16. Make ready 1 Tablespoon currant red jelly

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 traditional Easter treat popped up again this year, just the other night as I was watching Mary Berry's Easter Feast. That's her latest short cooking series on BBC. Originally, this cake was made for Mothering Sunday, but it has for a long, long time been an essential Easter confection, the marzipan balls on top.

Steps to make Easter Simnel Cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C, to toast the almonds. spread them out on a baking sheet and toast them for exactly 8 to 10 minutes. remove from oven and reduce oven temperature to 150 degrees C. when almonds are cooled to room temp, chop them coarsely.
2. Unwrap the marzipan, cut the block into two equal halves and re-wrap one half for later use. chop the remaining half into 1/2 inch cubes. toss them in 1 tablespoon of the flour and set aside.
3. In a large mixing bowl, sift the flour, baking powder and spice. then place all the remaining ingredients, except the remaining marzipan, egg yolk and red currant jelly, into the bowl and mix well (using either an electric mixer or a wooden spoon) till the batter is evenly distributed.
4. Finally, gently fold in the marzipan cubes and any excess flour.
5. Spoon the mixture into a prepared 8 inch cake tin, leveling the surface with the back of a spatula. place a suitably sized square of double greaseproof paper with a hole the size of a 50p piece in the center over the top.
6. Place the cake in the center of the oven and bake for two and three-quaters to three and a quarter hours at 150 degrees C. the cake is cooked when the center feels springy when lightly pressed.
7. Cool the cake in the tin for 30 minutes, then transfer onto a wire rack to cool completely.
8. To decorate the cake, unwrap the remaining marzipan and divide into two halves. roll out one half into a 9 inch circle. brush the top of the cake with the red currant jelly (or raspberry jam) and place the circle of marzipan concentrically over the cake.
9. Trim the excess overhangs, or make a decorative fluted pattern as shown in the pics.
10. Divide the final portion of marzipan into eleven and shape into spheres. place them equidistant from each other along the circumference of the cake top.
11. Brush the marzipan with the egg yolk, and place under a preheated grill (which has been heating for a good 10 minutes so it is at full blast) for about 30 to 40 seconds. the marzipan should turn a light, toasted brown color.
12. Remove from the oven, and serve.

The Simnel Cake recipe is similar to the traditional English Christmas Cake, but not as rich, with a layer of marzipan in the middle of the cake and covered with a second layer, without royal icing as well. Simnel cake is that rare thing - an Easter treat that doesn't contain even a whiff of chocolate. Instead, this richly-fruited confection is topped with sweet, nutty marzipan, making it perfectly suited to end the. The Simnel cake is associated with Easter today, but was originally made for Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent. 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.

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