Happy Mothering Day! Yesterday morning, after we changed all our clocks forward an hour, we saw that the calendar said that it was Mothering Day in the UK. We're getting excited for our spring break trip to England so we're interested in all things UK. Thanks to Wikipedia, we learned that Mothering Day is the fourth Sunday of Lent and Mothering Day traditions are hard to separate from Lent/Easter prep. One tradition that started with Mothering Day and is now also an Easter tradition is the Simnel cake. Who can resist a recipe that calls for a pound of marzipan -- even if it means Mom has to be in the kitchen on Mothering Day?!
I used the recipe here, which even includes step by step pictorial directions! My Simnel cake didn't turn out quite as pretty as theirs, but tastes wonderful!!
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