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Simnel cake
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Total Time: 2 hours
Kid-friendly Easter treat: Roll out marzipan with children for a fun activity. Adult supervision needed for blow-torching.
Ingredients:
175 g butter
175 g soft light brown sugar
1lemon
1orange
175 g flour
2teaspoons baking powder
50 g ground almonds
½ teaspoon each ground cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg
3 large free-range eggs
1tablespoonmilk
150 g raisins
100 g currants or sultanas
100 g glacé cherries, sour cherries or dried cranberries
100 g mixed peel
3tablespoons apricot jam
icing sugarfor dusting
350 g marzipan
cinnamonfor dusting (optional)
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/gas 2. Grease and double line a 20cm cake tin.
- Cream butter and sugar, then mix in lemon and orange zest.
- In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, almonds, spices, and salt.
- Add 1 egg and 1 tbsp dry mix to butter mixture, repeat with remaining eggs and dry mix.
- Gently fold in milk, fruits, and peel.
- Pour batter into tin and bake for 1½ to 1¾ hours.
- Check with a skewer, then cool on a wire rack.
- Warm apricot jam until thin.
- Roll marzipan, place on cake, and decorate with balls.
- Brush with jam and caramelize if desired.