I hope you are enjoying the Easter weekend and have received a suitable amount of chocolate today!
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Weekly Bake Off: Simnel Cake
Happy Easter everyone!
This simnel cake is the last of my Easter bakes...after simnel muffins, hot cross buns, Easter biscuits and egg box mini cupcakes! Along with hot cross buns, I've never made simnel cake before so this was a good challenge. The cake itself was lovely and moist and looked rather pretty! There was also a layer of marzipan baked into the cake as you can see below.
This is also my entry into the Weekly Bake-Off where a different Mary Berry recipe is set each week which budding bakers make and submit for judging. You can check out the simnel cake round up here, once it's posted! If you want to make your own simnel cake you can find the recipe at My Kitchen Table.
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This looks gorgeous - wish I could taste it as it's got me drooling! Love the presentation with the ribbon -looks beautiful. :)
ReplyDeleteAhhhhhhhhh (thats the noise of me just thinking about delving into a yummy slice of this with a cuppa tea!)
ReplyDeleteThat looks so yummy! The spotty ribbon is so cute too!
ReplyDeleteYou make such beautiful and delicious desserts!
ReplyDeleteThis is just so perfect. Well done you!
ReplyDeleteWow this looks like sheer perfection. Love the photos. Happy Easter! :)
ReplyDeleteThis is the marriage of Christmas pudding and easter ?
ReplyDeleteIt is quite like a Christmas pudding/Christmas cake! The 11 balls of marzipan on the top are supposed to represent 11 of the apostles! It's a very traditional Easter cake! :-)
ReplyDeleteLove how you presented this awesome cake! Happy Easter Laura! :)
ReplyDeleteWonderful texture and great clicks :D.
ReplyDeletewow..absolutely inviting..;)
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This looks very pretty, great photos too! I'm not a marzipan fan but I'm in love with that polka dot ribbon, it finishes it off perfectly!
ReplyDeleteLove the ribbon on this cake. Nice touch. Simnel cake has so many interesting flavors with the marzipan, dried fruit and citrus. One of my favorite lattes is a marzipan latte from breakfast cafe in Salt Lake. Yum!
ReplyDeleteYour Simnel cake looks brilliant! Extremely well presented and I love your composition of your photos as always :-)
ReplyDeleteI have not bake a simnel cake before. Yours is gorgeous with the very-nice ribbon.
ReplyDeleteI have seen recipes on this before, however, your presentation here really is a stand out. Love the ribbon as well as the marzipan on top. I will need to try making one of these soon! Great post.
ReplyDeleteThis cake looks wonderful. The sunny yellow color makes it look like sunshine on plate. I am going to google simnel cakes. I would like to learn a little more about this particular cake.
ReplyDeleteThis cake looks wonderful. The sunny yellow color makes it look like sunshine on plate. I am going to google simnel cakes. I would like to learn a little more about this particular cake.
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Oh that looks so pretty. Love the bow tied so nicely around the cake - it sets it off really well. I adore simnel cake, something to do with the squidgy layer of marzipan in the middle. Luckily, there is still plenty of ours left.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cake Laura - I meant to make one but failed this Easter. It looks so good!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone! It seems the ribbon is the star of the show!! The simnel tasted really good too...for everyone that said they've never made one...definitely give it a go next year! :-)
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