A traditional Easter Simnel Cake. Fruit cake baked with a layer of marzipan in the middle, topped with marzipan layer and balls (to represent the apostles minus Judas), glazed with beaten egg and popped under a hot grill for a few seconds to caramelise. Finished with a hand made petal paste flower. For those that don't know, this cake was originally taken home by housemaids to their Mothers on Mothering Sunday (which was also known as Simnel Sunday), decorated with preserved fruits and flowers. It then developed in late Victorian era to be an Easter cake and the tradition of the marzipan balls for the 'good' apostles was adopted.
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You just want more and more! So I'll have another piece tonight haha
Means it's so good, you can't stop eatting it. :o)
iv never heard that word! lol
lol June
OMG
I haven't heard the word moreish in a long time....... one of my Mom's favorite words!! :o)
Thanks Mandy - we did cut it though last night. It was seriously good. The marzipan baked in the middle makes it so moist and moreish.
too good to cut Katy loving the flower in the middle
All I know, June, is I could eat it till I'm sick! I love it.
WELL YOU DID IT AGAIN Katy , now we wants some lol
I don't like my fruit cake without marzipan. My Mom used it, but most here Linda, like USA, don't know much about it. Mostly it is refered to here as "almond paste". My cake club leader says that marzipan & almond paste are 2 different things. She had some marzipan at our Christmas meeting & it was totally gross! It was from Ikea. But she was wrong. In the USA & Canada almond paste & marzipan are one and the same. In UK marzipan has higher ratio if sugar to almonds, here, more almonds to sugar.
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