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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.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook vickys easter simnel cake, gf df ef sf using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Vickys Easter Simnel Cake, GF DF EF SF:
- Take Almond Dough/Marzipan
- Prepare 300 grams ground almonds
- Prepare 300 grams icing/powdered sugar
- Prepare 2 lemons, zest and juice
- Take Fruit Cake
- Make ready 1 apple
- Get 125 ml sunflower oil
- Prepare 150 grams soft light brown sugar
- Prepare 75 ml water
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- Get 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Take 1 tsp xanthan gum
- Take 1 tsp gluten free baking powder
- Get 175 grams gluten free flour
- Make ready 200 grams mixed fruit - raisins, currants, sultanas and quartered glacé cherries
- Make ready 100 grams mixed glacé peel
- Get 1 tbsp apricot jam
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. Simnel cakes are easy to spot - they are commonly decorated with eleven marzipan balls, one for Have you baked my Simnel Cake this Easter? This traditional Easter simnel cake recipe is easy to prepare and can be made several days in advance.
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
Sally's recipe has a surprise marzipan layer and is Simnel cake is firmly rooted in British culinary history; it can be traced all the way back to Medieval times and although it is most commonly. 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. 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 spent together.
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