Easter Simnel loaf

Snap, Sizzle And Cook
Prep: 45 mins, Cooking: 1 hr
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A rich fruity cake with marzipan, eaten over the Easter period.

By Food24 March 25 2015
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Ingredients (13)

300 g dried fruitcake mix
100 g glacé cherries — whole
60 ml sherry — or orange liqueur
150 g butter
140 g castor sugar
3 eggs — extra-large
500 ml flour — cake
5 ml Baking powder
45 ml milk
250 g marzipan — optional
ICING:
250 ml icing sugar
15 ml orange juice
3 ml orange — zest only
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Method:

Preheat oven to 160°C.

Combine the fruit cake mix and cherries in a bowl. Add sherry and leave to soak for about 30 minutes.
Cream butter and sugar. Add the eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition. Sift the flour and baking powder and add. Add the fruit and milk and mix well. Turn half the mixture into a greased 23cm loaf pan. Shape the marzipan into a sausage the length of the pan and place in the centre of the mixture already in the pan. Spoon the remaining cake mixture over the marzipan.

Bake in a preheated oven for about 1 hour or until a skewer comes out clean (Don’t pierce through the centre but rather on the side of where the marzipan is laid).

Combine all icing ingredients and drizzle over cake.

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