Simnel Cake

The Simnel Cake is baked as an Easter tradition to signify the end of Lent and fasting in the UK and Ireland. Rich with fruit, spices and marzipan (on the top and in the middle), it is filled with all the ingredients that have been given up for Lent. All of Jesus’s apostles are represented by the marzipan balls on the top except Judas, so only use 11 balls not 12.