Chocolate Fruit, Hazelnut & Almond Simnel Cake

Name: Chocolate Fruit, Hazelnut & Almond Simnel Cake
Yield: Serves 8–12
Ingredients: 40 g cocoa powder (sifted if lumpy); 300 g white marzipan; 70 g dark chocolate, roughly chopped; 120 g sour cream; 120 g butter, softened; 100 g dark chocolate, roughly chopped, plus extra for shavings, if desired; 100 g raisins; 4 eggs; ½ tsp baking powder; 100 g toasted skinned hazelnuts, finely chopped; 20 g toasted blanched almonds, finely chopped; 180 g self-raising flour, plus extra 2 tbsp, for dusting the raisins; 220 g caster sugar; 150 g butter, softened; 100 g icing sugar, plus extra for dusting

Preparation info

Serves
8–12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake

By Lorraine Pascale

Published 2017

About

Simnel cakes are light fruit cakes that are traditionally made at Easter. Many people in my family are not fans of rich fruit cake, but throw some chocolate in and then they come running for it! I hope you like this twist on the traditional. Use whatever dried fruits and nuts you prefer, just keep the quantities the same.

Ingredients

150 g butter, softened
220 g caster sugar
120 g<

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C (fan 160°C/350°F/gas 4) and line the cake tins with baking parchment. Put the butter, caster sugar, sour cream, eggs, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, hazelnuts and almonds into a large bowl. In another bowl, mix the raisins with the extra