Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, easter simnel cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Easter Simnel Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Easter Simnel Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easter simnel cake using 18 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Easter Simnel Cake:

1. Make ready 175 g raisins
2. Make ready 175 g sultanas
3. Take 50 g mixed peel, chopped if necessary
4. Get 4 tbsp brandy, whisky or golden or dark rum
5. Make ready 50 g whole skinned almonds
6. Prepare 175 g self raising flour
7. Take 45 g ground almonds
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp fine salt
9. Take 11/2 tsp mixed spice
10. Prepare 180 g butter, softened
11. Prepare 180 g soft, light brown sugar
12. Make ready 3 eggs, lightly beaten
13. Make ready Zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange
14. Take 50 g glacé cherries, halved
15. Prepare 1 tbsp golden syrup
16. Take 75 ml milk
17. Prepare 700 g marzipan
18. Take Sugar syrup, apricot jam or marmalade, to top

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.

Instructions to make Easter Simnel Cake:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Add the remaining flour mixture and the orange and lemon zests, and fold in with a metal spoon.
7. Roughly chop the toasted almonds and add to the mixture.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Fill the centre with thick glacé icing and decorate with little eggs or other Easter decorations.

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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