Hold onto Your Baskets, Folks: These Crazy Easter Facts Will Blow Your Mind!
The Origin Of Simnel Cakes
The Simnel cake is one of the few fruit cakes strongly connected with the Easter celebrations. It has been in use since medieval times, and it has a symbolic value.
The cake dates back centuries, but the one we eat now is quite different from early bakes. It is mostly consumed by nations with Christian populations descended from British and Irish immigration. The fruit cake is topped with eleven marzipan balls to represent the eleven apostles of Christ, except Judas.
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