SIMNEL CAKE

• In a bowl, cream together the butter, sugar and eggs.
• Mix the flour, baking powder, salt and ground spices.
• Blend in with the butter mixture, adding little milk if required to facilitate blending.
• Add currants, sultanas, raisins and mixed fruit to the batter.
• Butter a 9 inch cake tin and pour in half the batter.
• Roll out half the marzipan to fit the circumference of the pan.
• Place over the cake batter.
• Pour the rest of the batter over the marzipan.
• Bake in a preheated oven (180 c) for about one hour.
• Remove cake form the oven when cool, decorate the top of the cake with the remainng marzipan.