The hairy bikers traditional simnel cake recipe

Si and Dave served up a traditional simnel cake on the Hairy Bikers Best of British foods series.

The Bikers says: “This traditional Easter fruit cake is topped with 11 spheres of homemade marzipan, representing all the Apostles, minus Judus. Decorate with a wide yellow ribbon.”

The ingredients for the fruit cake are: 1 well-scrubbed orange, freshly squeezed juice and finely grated zest, 1 unwaxed lemon, freshly squeezed juice and finely grated zest, 500g mixed dried fruit, 100g glacé cherries, 225g self-raising flour, 2 tsp ground mixed spice, 3 large free-range eggs, 175g well softened butter, plus extra for greasing and 175g light muscovado sugar.


See how the Bikers prepare their fruit cake in this BBc video: