Simnel Cake
Classic bake! Simnel Cake is a light fruitcake topped with marzipan. For an extra treat James has added chocolate truffles to the top too! He used chocolates from Chocolarder.
Ingredients
- 175g butter
- 175g dark brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 50ml milk
- 175g self raising flour
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 100g glace cherries, chopped
- 400g mixed fruit or sultanas
- 50ml brandy
For marzipan
- 175g caster sugar
- 300g icing sugar
- 450g ground almonds
- 2 eggs
- Squeeze of lemon
- To decorate – chocolate truffles
Method
- Preheat the oven to 160C
- Grease and line a 28cm cake tin
- Beat the butter until light and fluffy with the sugar. Then, add the eggs, brandy and milk, mix together
- Then, separately, mix the flour, spices and fruit until it is well mixed. Then, fold this into the wet mix.
- Bake for 1 ¼ to 1 ½ hours until it is golden brown and firm in the middle. Allow to cool.
- Place all of the ingredients together in a mixer / Kitchen Aid with a K attachment, and mix together. Do not over mix as the marzipan will become greasy.
- Roll out on icing sugar and use the chocolate truffles to decorate the cake. Blow torch the top to colour, if you wish.
Ingredients
- 175g butter
- 175g dark brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 50ml milk
- 175g self raising flour
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 100g glace cherries, chopped
- 400g mixed fruit or sultanas
- 50ml brandy
For marzipan
- 175g caster sugar
- 300g icing sugar
- 450g ground almonds
- 2 eggs
- Squeeze of lemon
- To decorate – chocolate truffles
Method
- Preheat the oven to 160C
- Grease and line a 28cm cake tin
- Beat the butter until light and fluffy with the sugar. Then, add the eggs, brandy and milk, mix together
- Then, separately, mix the flour, spices and fruit until it is well mixed. Then, fold this into the wet mix.
- Bake for 1 ¼ to 1 ½ hours until it is golden brown and firm in the middle. Allow to cool.
- Place all of the ingredients together in a mixer / Kitchen Aid with a K attachment, and mix together. Do not over mix as the marzipan will become greasy.
- Roll out on icing sugar and use the chocolate truffles to decorate the cake. Blow torch the top to colour, if you wish.
