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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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Comment by Katy Nott on March 31, 2013 at 3:24pm

You just want more and more!  So I'll have another piece tonight haha

Comment by June Kowalczyk on March 31, 2013 at 2:52pm

Means it's so good, you can't stop eatting it.  :o)

Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on March 31, 2013 at 1:56pm

iv never heard that word! lol

Comment by Katy Nott on March 31, 2013 at 1:50pm

lol June

Comment by June Kowalczyk on March 31, 2013 at 8:17am

OMG

I haven't heard the word moreish in a long time....... one of my Mom's favorite words!!  :o)

Comment by Katy Nott on March 31, 2013 at 7:01am

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.

Comment by Mandy Donaldson on March 31, 2013 at 4:03am

too good to cut Katy loving the flower in the middle 

Comment by Linda Wolff on March 30, 2013 at 5:36pm

All I know, June, is I could eat it till I'm sick! I love it.

Comment by art deco cakes by galidink on March 30, 2013 at 5:18pm

WELL YOU DID IT AGAIN Katy , now we wants some lol

Comment by June Kowalczyk on March 30, 2013 at 4:41pm

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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