THE SIMNEL CAKE. ( THE HISTORY).

SIMNEL CAKE..A spiced Easter fruit cake. This is traditionally English. A rich, spicy fruit cake topped with a layer of almond paste ( marzipan) and decorated with 12 balls of marzipan which are said to represent the Apostles, sometimes the number is reduced to 11 to exclude Judas Traditionally baked on Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent.