Simnel cake | Fast Ed
Simnel cake is a traditional English Easter treat baked to be served on the middle Sunday of Lent, a day when Protestant Christians were allowed a break from their forty days of fasting. The cake...
Ingredients
- 300g raisins
- 200g currants
- 1 cups brandy
- 300g unsalted butter
- 200g dark brown sugar
- 180g caster sugar
- finely-grated zest of 4 oranges
- 1 Tbsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp freshly-grated nutmeg
- 6 eggs
- 4 egg yolks
- 300g almond meal
- 300g plain flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 2 Tbsp molasses
- 150g red glacé cherries
- 100g blanched almonds, toasted and chopped
- 1½ cups apricot jam
- 650g marzipan
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