BBC Food - Recipes - Simnel cake
This traditional Easter fruit cake is topped with 11 spheres of homemade marzipan, representing all the Apostles, minus Judus. Decorate with a wide yellow ribbon.
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Ingredients
- 225g/8oz icing sugar , plus at least 3 tbsp for rolling
- 175g/6oz caster sugar
- 350g/12oz ground almonds
- 2 large free-range eggs
- ½ tsp almond extract
- 1 tsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 tbsp apricot jam
- 1 well-scrubbed orange , freshly squeezed juice and finely grated zest
- 1 unwaxed lemon , freshly squeezed juice and finely grated zest
- 500g/1lb 2oz mixed dried fruit
- 100g/3½oz glacé cherries , halved
- 225g/8oz self-raising flour
- 2 tsp ground mixed spice
- 3 large free-range eggs
- 175g/6oz butter , softened, plus extra for greasing
- 175g/6oz light muscovado sugar
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