Simnel Cake
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Ingredients
- 8 oz butter
- 8 oz soft. brown sugar
- 8 oz self raising flour
- 4 oz sultanas
- 4 oz currants
- 4 oz raisins
- 2 oz chopped.mixed peel
- 2 oz chopped glacé cherries
- 4 eggs
- 4 tbsp sherry
- 8 oz ground almonds
- 4 oz Icing Sugar Sieved
- 4 oz caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- ½ tsp almond essence
- ½ tsp Vanilla essence
- 3 oz Icing Sugar Sieved
- Green colouring
- Easter novelties
- Ribbon or foil.
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Description
Rich, fruity cake for festive occasions..
Method
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To make marzipan:
1. Mix ground almonds,sieved icing sugar and caster sugar well together.
2. Add remainder of ingredients and knead together lightly.
To make cake:
3. Line and grease an 8in cake tin.
4. Soften the butter in a large bowl to creamy consistency.
5. Stir ingedients gradually together and mix till well blended.
6. Spread mixture in the tin,scooping out middle slightly.
7. Take half of the marzipan,arrange in small pieces close together over half the cake mixture in the tin,cover with rest of cake mixture and bake at 325F/170C/Gas Mark 3 for 30 minutes,then at 300F/150C/Gas Mark 2 for 1 1/2-1 3/4 hrs till cake is easing away from the sides of the tin.
8. Leave in the tin for a while,then turn onto a wire rack.
9. When cold,roll out half remaining marzipan to cover top of the cake.Cut a 3-4 inch circle from the middle.Shape 10-12 balls from rest of marzipan,arrange them round top edge of cake.
Brush all marzipan with egg.
10. Put into the oven at 400F/200C/Gas Mark 6,or under heated grill to colour lightly.
11. Fill centre space with glacé icing made from icing sugar coloured pale green.
Decorate with Easter chicks and eggs,tie ribbon.
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