The Cathedral Hospitality Teams are calling all bakers!

For Easter 2026, the traditional British Simnel cake remains a popular light, zesty fruit cake featuring a layer of marzipan baked inside and another on top. It is typically decorated with 11 marzipan balls representing the disciples (minus Judas) and sometimes adorned with ribbon or mini eggs.

Although it is now mostly eaten on Easter Sunday, it was once firmly a cake of Mothering Sunday. Since the 17th century on this day, live-in apprentices and servants would return to their 'Mother church' (hence, 'Mothering Sunday'), and so to the place where their families lived.
This was referred to as going ‘a-mothering’.

Would you like to bake a Simnel Cake?
Bring it along on Sunday March 15, to enjoy together after the 10:30am service, during Coffee Hour.

It is still Lent, however as a token of internal joy, and the joy of anticipation, this would make a delicious addition to the welcome and hospitality we offer here at Christ's Church Cathedral.  

Come join us! 

(You may consider making a cake that is nut and/or gluten free. Either way, please label your cake clearly if contains nuts and/or gluten, thank you so much!)