Simnel Cake Recipe - A Traditional & Easy Easter Recipe/Bake

My Simnel Cake recipe is a traditional Easter bake that we eat here in the UK, it is a lighter version of a fruit cake and my version is more like a sponge cake with fruit. I add a layer of marzipan to the centre of my baking adding even more delicious almond flavour throughout the sponge. www.katiehomecook.co.uk/simne...
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Ingredients:
115g baking margarine
115g caster sugar, plus extra for rolling out
2 large free-range eggs
125g self-raising flour
225g mixed dried fruit
75g glacé cherries, quartered
500g Marzipan
Apricot jam
Cocoa powder, for dusting
Method:
1. Pre-heat the oven to 150C/130C Fan/Gas 2.
2. Line the base and sides of a 6 inch round cake tin.
3. Beat the margarine and sugar together until creamy. Add one egg and a scoop of flour beat until well mixed. Add the other egg and beat again, stir in the rest of the four and all the fruit.
4. Sprinkle a little icing sugar on a work surface and roll out a 6inch round of marzipan. Fill the tin half full with cake mix, add the marzipan round then the rest of the cake mix.
5. Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 mins, or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool for 15 minutes in the tin, then remove and finish cooling on a wire rack.
6. Brush the top of the cake with a thin layer of jam. Cut out another round of marzipan using the cake tin, use this to top the cake.
7. Roll 11mini balls with the remaining marzipan. Put the balls around the edge of the cake, using the jam to stick them in place. Dust with cocoa powder.

[@clintockmaconaghie3763]

This is the first video Ive watch on the Simnel Cake - brilliant explanation and instructions

[@KatieHomeCook]

Thanks! Glad you liked it 😊

[@sandramullen7804]

You could also use a heat gun to blast it for a a couple of seconds to brown it . Looks delicious love marzipan yum yum 😋

[@FurtysCakeSugarArt]

Awesome delicious cake.

[@KatieHomeCook]

Furty's Cake & Sugar Art thanks so much xx

[@Thebaroquebaker]

This sounds amazing! Will definitely try it.

[@KatieHomeCook]

Let me know how it goes 😊

[@deniseeulert5220]

I've just made a simnel cake for the first time. Sorry, not your recipe, but I did put the marzipan in the middle. I was looking for an alternative to grilling it and in your thumbnail it didn't look grilled. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your solution, with the cocoa powder. I'm going to check out other videos you have posted.

[@KatieHomeCook]

Amazing!! I live anything that makes life a bit easier 😊

[@Tucker68284]

loved this video keep them coming

[@KatieHomeCook]

Amazing!! Thanks 😊

[@jonathanjones5282]

Love your cooking , just subscribed ,thanks.

[@KatieHomeCook]

Great!! Thanks 😊

[@guganakhtar2969]

Delicious recipe. #machrinaskitchen

[@suegoff2684]

I wish I could find a good chart to convert metric.

[@KatieHomeCook]

Metric to imperial?

[@rashigandhi4986]

How can we substitute the eggs for an eggless recipe

[@KatieHomeCook]

I use vegan egg replacement in my bakes 😊

[@bonnyvonny5182]

It says 125 g flour you say 225g flour

[@KatieHomeCook]

It is 125g, must have said the wrong amount! ☺️