Vickys Easter Simnel Cake, GF DF EF SF
Vickys Easter Simnel Cake, GF DF EF SF

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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. A fond childhood memory is going to my grannies house after school and getting a slice of McVities Jamaican Ginger cake, thickly spread with butter to. Simnel cake is a traditional Easter fruitcake, packed with dried fruit and spices and topped with sweet marzipan.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have vickys easter simnel cake, gf df ef sf using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Vickys Easter Simnel Cake, GF DF EF SF:
  1. Prepare Almond Dough/Marzipan
  2. Prepare 300 grams ground almonds
  3. Get 300 grams icing/powdered sugar
  4. Make ready 2 lemons, zest and juice
  5. Take Fruit Cake
  6. Make ready 1 apple
  7. Get 125 ml sunflower oil
  8. Get 150 grams soft light brown sugar
  9. Prepare 75 ml water
  10. Take 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
  11. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  12. Get 1 tsp xanthan gum
  13. Take 1 tsp gluten free baking powder
  14. Take 175 grams gluten free flour
  15. Make ready 200 grams mixed fruit - raisins, currants, sultanas and quartered glacé cherries
  16. Get 100 grams mixed glacé peel
  17. Get 1 tbsp apricot jam

A simnel cake is a key part of Easter baking. This fruit cake is simple to make but will take a little time in the oven. In a large bowl, stir together flour, mixed spice and dried fruit. The simnel cake is a classic cake for Easter appears sometime around the end of Lent.

Steps to make Vickys Easter Simnel Cake, GF DF EF SF:
  1. Preheat the oven to gas 3 / 160C / 325°F and grease & line a deep 8" round springform cake tin
  2. Mix together the almonds, icing sugar, lemon juice and zest. Form into 2 balls, cover and set aside
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Put under the grill to slightly toast the top of the marzipan paste

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 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. Simnel cakes are easy to spot - they are commonly decorated with eleven marzipan balls, one for Have you baked my Simnel Cake this Easter?

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