Simnel Cake

It has become an Easter tradition at work that I bake a Simnel cake.  This benefits me greatly as I can use up the last of the dried fruit that I have in the baking drawer leftover from making Christmas cake (also something of an office tradition).  I don't like fruit cakes so my colleagues provide willing test subjects.  I always use the recipe in Nigella Lawson's 'Feast'.  It may appear from this blog that I'm a bit of a Nigella addict which may have some truth to it but I use her recipes generally because they are really easy to follow and understand and also very forgiving if things don't quite work, which happens quite often in my kitchen. Such as this time when I realised as I was about to decorate that I only had half the required marzipan.  Aside from  being a bit thin on top, it doesn't seem to suffer from a lack of it. Below is this year's offering, it would be traditional to burnish the top with a blow torch but neither owning one nor trusting myself with it even if I did means mine stays pristine yellow.