Simnelkage

Ingredients for Simnelkage

Instructions for Simnelkage

To prepare the Simnelkage recipe, please follow these instructions:

Oven preheated to 150 degrees. A 20 cm springform covered with baking paper. Paper greased and sprinkled lightly with flour.
Butter and sugar whipped light and easy. The eggs are added gradually.
Sift flour, baking powder, allspice, ginger, clove, cinnamon, ground almond and ½ tsp salt into a large mixing bowl. Then add the currants, raisins, and orange and lemon peel. Stir the mixture well. The dry ingredients are stirred together with egg mixture together with Grand Marnier. Pour half of the batter into the mold and smooth the surface with the back of a spoon.
The table top is sprinkled lightly with powdered sugar. Deploy 200 g of marcipanen to a 19.5 cm circle. Put marzipan circle on top of the dough into the mold and got the rest of the batter on top. Smooth the surface with the back of a spoon and low, if desired. a minor fordybing in the middle of the cake (this is done to avoid the cake raises crooked up). Bake the cake in 1 ½-2 hours. Try. with a knitting needle, on the cake is fully baked through. Take the cake out of the mold and let it cool on a wire rack. Carefully remove the peel off.
The table top is sprinkled with icing sugar. Deploy 200 g marzipan into a 20 cm circle. RIDs a checkered pattern on the circle with a small knife. Finally, the jam of apricot met in a small pot and melt slowly together with 2 tablespoons water. "Pie" top and sides brushed with the melted jam. Put marzipan circle exactly on top of "pie". The rest of the marcipanen cut in 11 uniform pieces like rolled into balls. Set the small cakes laid along the edge of the "pie" with a little jam. Press the balls lightly with a palette knife.
Style cake under oven grill in 1-2 min, marcipanen is quite easy to Golden. Style the cake on a papcirkel, which is covered with aluminum foil. Term the icing sugar into a small bowl and stir it to glaze with lemon juice. The glaze will be honored in an icing bag and writing forsigtgt "simnel" in the middle of the cake.

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Preparation time 50 min. Preparation 2 hours.