Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, easter simnel cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Easter Simnel Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Easter Simnel Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easter simnel cake using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Easter Simnel Cake:
- Take 100 Grams almonds whole blanched
- Make ready 500 Grams marzipan golden
- Prepare 225 Grams all purpose flour
- Make ready 3 Teaspoons baking powder
- Make ready 1 Teaspoon mixed spice
- Take 150 Grams brown sugar soft light
- Take 150 Grams butter , softened
- Get 2 Tablespoons milk whole
- Get 3 eggs large , beaten
- Prepare 1 egg yolk , beaten
- Prepare 411 Grams christmas mince
- Make ready 350 Grams dried fruit mixed
- Get 50 Grams whole candied peel
- Get 1 orange , zested
- Prepare 1 lemon , zested
- Get 1 Tablespoon currant red jelly
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.
Instructions to make Easter Simnel Cake:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Finally, gently fold in the marzipan cubes and any excess flour.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cool the cake in the tin for 30 minutes, then transfer onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- 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.
- Trim the excess overhangs, or make a decorative fluted pattern as shown in the pics.
- 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.
- 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.
- Remove from the oven, and serve.
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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