Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, welsh cakes. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Welsh Cakes is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Welsh Cakes is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt into bowl. Put in butter and lard and mix until resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in sugar and currants or raisins. Beat the eggs lightly and add to flour mixture with just enough milk to make a firm dough similar to shortcrust pastry.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have welsh cakes using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Welsh Cakes:
- Get 225 g self-raising flour
- Get 1 pinch salt
- Take 1/2 tsp equal parts cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger
- Get 100 g butter
- Make ready 50 g caster sugar
- Get 1 egg
- Take 3 tbsp milk
- Take 25 g blueberries
- Take 25 g dark chocolate chips
A heavy frying pan works well, but take care not to let the sugar in your Welsh cakes burn. A very authentic and traditional Welsh Cakes recipe Unforgettably flaky, tender, almost melt-in-your-mouth texture that's punctuated with sweet currants and laced with a wonderful hint of mace, these Welsh cakes are simply irresistible! Traditional Welsh cakes recipe Hello, my name is Kathryn Gunter, and I used to run The Market Bakery in Abergavenny market. It's a very traditional bakers, providing a wide selection of breads and homemade cakes, including Welsh cakes, Bara Brith and Teisen Lap.
Instructions to make Welsh Cakes:
- Mix sifted flour, spices and salt together in a large bowl
- Using your fingertips rub the butter into the dried ingredients
- Sift in the caster sugar and mix well
- Beat together the egg and milk then mix in with the other ingredients until you have a stiff dough
- Divide the dough into two bowls adding chocolate chips to one bowl and blueberries to the other (mixing well)
- Roll each of the doughs between baking paper until about 0.5cm thickness and then refrigerate for 1 hour
- Using a cookie cutter cut out circles of the dough
- Preheat a frying pan with a little butter, then carefully place in the welsh cakes
- Cook the welsh cakes for 4 minutes then flip and cook for another 4 minutes until golden brown and risen slightly
- Remove from the heat, sprinkle with a little caster sugar and serve
Traditional Welsh cakes recipe Hello, my name is Kathryn Gunter, and I used to run The Market Bakery in Abergavenny market. It's a very traditional bakers, providing a wide selection of breads and homemade cakes, including Welsh cakes, Bara Brith and Teisen Lap. I was born in Abergavenny and live within the town. Denise & Joe Carbone, owners of The Welsh Baker company welcome you to our online store. We've been making our humble little cakes entirely by hand from an old family recipe handed down in Denise's family.
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