Simnel cake

Ingredients

• 3 x large eggs
• 175g butter or margarine
• 175g golden caster sugar
• 225g self raising flour
• ½tsp mixed spice
• 100g glace cherries
• 425g mixed dried fruit
• Finely grated zest from an orange and a lemon
• 2 x 270g packets of marzipan

You'll also need:

• 1 x 18cm spring-form cake tin

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 150ºC/302ºF/gas 2.
2. Grease the sides of the cake tin and line the bottom with some non-stick greaseproof paper.
3. Cream the butter and the sugar together until pale then add the eggs slowly one at a time. Add the flour, mixed spice and the fruit zest and mix well. Fold in the dried fruits with a metal spoon. Spoon half the mixture into the prepared tin.
4. Roll out one of the packets of marzipan into a circle just smaller than the tin, then put this onto the top of the cake mixture. Spoon the rest of the cake mixture on top.
5. Bake in the centre of the oven for 2.5 hrs until firm and golden. 
6. Cool in the tin then turn out.
7. Using the other marzipan packet, make 11 balls and stick these on the top of the cake with a little warm jam.

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Nutritional information

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.