Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, simnel cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Simnel cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Simnel cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Come See our Unique Cake Gifts! Check out our new Mini Cake Explosion Boxes and Mini Cake Variety Packs Simnel cake is a light fruitcake formerly eaten during the pre-Easter period in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some other countries but has become a traditional cake for Easter Sunday. It is distinguished by two layers of almond paste or marzipan, one in the middle and one on top.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook simnel cake using 30 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Simnel cake:
- Take For the marzipan:
- Prepare 100 g ground almonds
- Prepare 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Get 2 free-range egg yolks
- Prepare 2 tbsp. lemon juice
- Take For the cake:
- Take 5 tbsp. milk
- Make ready 1 good pinch of saffron
- Take 150 g raisins
- Get 150 g sultanas
- Take 40 g brandy, vin santo or white rum
- Prepare 50 g bleached almonds
- Take 175 g plain flour
- Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 45 g ground almonds
- Take 1/2 tsp fine salt
- Get 2 tsp mixed spice
- Take 180 g butter, at room temperature
- Get 180 g soft, light brown sugar
- Get 3 eggs
- Prepare 1 tbsp. golden syrup
- Take zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange
- Get 50 g glacé cherries, halved
- Prepare 50 g mixed peel
- Prepare apricot jam, to brush over the cake
- Take For the icing:
- Make ready 30 g caster sugar
- Make ready 25 g butter
- Take 20 g lemon juice
- Get 110 g icing sugar
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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.
Simnel Cake -A Recipe that has Stood the Test Of Time That was pre blogging and even pre internet, in fact I wrote the feature on a portable type writer but a classic recipe is a classic recipe and so I thought I would share that recipe in time for Mother's day this year. Oh yes - the Simnel cake. Marzipan, dried fruit and syrup again, after the Lent abstinence. Traditionally it has marzipan inside, marzipan on top and even features eleven little marzipan balls or eggs to boot, apparently meant to represent the eleven apostles, Judas excluded. You can have the twelfth ball in the middle for Jesus.
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