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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. Spoon the remaining cake mixture on top and level the surface.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook vickys easter simnel cake, gf df ef sf using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Vickys Easter Simnel Cake, GF DF EF SF:
- Get Almond Dough/Marzipan
- Prepare 300 grams ground almonds
- Take 300 grams icing/powdered sugar
- Prepare 2 lemons, zest and juice
- Prepare Fruit Cake
- Prepare 1 apple
- Get 125 ml sunflower oil
- Make ready 150 grams soft light brown sugar
- Make ready 75 ml water
- Get 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1 tsp xanthan gum
- Prepare 1 tsp gluten free baking powder
- Prepare 175 grams gluten free flour
- Get 200 grams mixed fruit - raisins, currants, sultanas and quartered glacé cherries
- Make ready 100 grams mixed glacé peel
- Get 1 tbsp apricot jam
Simnel cakes are easy to spot - they are commonly decorated with eleven marzipan balls, one for Have you baked my Simnel Cake this Easter? The simnel cake is a classic cake for Easter appears sometime around the end of Lent. The cake signifies the end of Lent which is a period of fasting and repentance culminating in a feast of Divide the almond paste into three portions and take one portion and roll it into a round the size of the cake tin. I made my first Simnel cake with this gorgeous recipe and it's delicious.
Steps to make Vickys Easter Simnel Cake, GF DF EF SF:
- Preheat the oven to gas 3 / 160C / 325°F and grease & line a deep 8" round springform cake tin
- Mix together the almonds, icing sugar, lemon juice and zest. Form into 2 balls, cover and set aside
- Grate the apple into a bowl, add the sugar and oil then beat vigorously. Add the water, nutmeg, cinnamon, xanthan gum and baking powder beating vigorously again, then mix in the flour, fruits and peel
- Spoon half the mixture into the cake tin. Take one ball of the almond paste, roll into a 9" circle and place it on top of the cake mixture. Spread the remaining cake mixture on top of the almond paste
- Bake for 1 & 1/2 - 3/4 hours. Let the cake cool then run a knife around the tin edges and turn it out onto a wire rack. Brush the top of the cold cake with the apricot jam. Take the second ball of almond paste and break off 11 marble sized pieces
- Roll out the remaining almond dough/marzipan into an 8" round using the springform tin base as a guide. Place the almond dough circle on top of the apricot jam. Press the 11 balls of almond dough in a circle around the top of the cake, moistening the base of each slightly with the leftover jam
- Put under the grill to slightly toast the top of the marzipan paste
I didn't change anything, and even blow torched the top and it's amazing! I've never attempted a Simnel Cake before as my late mother traditionally made our family cake, but I decided to make this as a reminder of happy Easters. This traditional Easter fruit cake is a personal favourite mainly because it's topped with toasted marzipan and also cooked with a layer of marzipan inside. Use this Easter Simnel Cake tutorial and learn the know-how of decorating with layers of marzipan. 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.
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