8 servings
Prep: 20 mins,
Cooking: 2 hrs
A simnel cake is a rich fruitcake often baked around Easter time.
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Ingredients (22)
100 g | glacé cherries — whole |
400 g | fruit cake mix — dried |
175 g | butter — unsalted, soft |
175 g | castor sugar |
lemon — zest only | |
225 g | flour — plain |
1 tsp | Baking powder |
1/2 tsp | cinnamon — ground |
1/4 tsp | ginger — ground |
25 g | almonds — ground |
4 | eggs — organic |
2 Tbs | milk |
200 g | chocolate — coated marzipan |
FRANGIPANE FILLING:
125 g | butter |
100 g | castor sugar |
2 | eggs |
5 ml | vanilla — essence |
100 g | almonds |
20 ml | flour |
ICING:
1 | eggs — whites only |
250 g | icing sugar |
DECORATION:
chocolate — chocolate balls |
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