Hi, I’m Joana. Today, we’re going to prepare simnel cake recipe. Never skip today’s recipe. This is a simple recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I’m gonna make it a bit tastier. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Simnel cake Recipe
Simnel cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Simnel cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have simnel cake using 30 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Simnel cake:
- Take For the marzipan:
- Make ready 100 g ground almonds
- Take 100 g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Take 2 free-range egg yolks
- Get 2 tbsp. lemon juice
- Take For the cake:
- Prepare 5 tbsp. milk
- Take 1 good pinch of saffron
- Prepare 150 g raisins
- Make ready 150 g sultanas
- Get 40 g , vin santo or white
- Prepare 50 g bleached almonds
- Make ready 175 g plain flour
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 45 g ground almonds
- Prepare 1/2 tsp fine salt
- Get 2 tsp mixed spice
- Prepare 180 g butter, at room temperature
- Prepare 180 g soft, light brown sugar
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Get 1 tbsp. golden syrup
- Prepare zest of 1 lemon and 1 orange
- Prepare 50 g glacé cherries, halved
- Make ready 50 g mixed peel
- Prepare apricot jam, to brush over the cake
- Take For the icing:
- Make ready 30 g caster sugar
- Prepare 25 g butter
- Make ready 20 g lemon juice
- Prepare 110 g icing sugar
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 cbs mix into the icing and spoil the effect. Leave to set.
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