Recipe! Welsh cakes
Today I'd like to share how to make Welsh cakes
Welsh cakes are a type of sweet flat-cake like biscuit. A bit hard to describe! They are a traditional dish from the country of Wales, which is in the UK!
Traditionally, they are made with raisins, but nowadays, they can have anything from chocolate to biscoff!
I really love welsh cakes so wanted to make some!
For the ingredients I used:
- Plain flour 225g (the recipe is supposed to use self-raising but I didn't have any)
- a teaspoon of baking powder
- pinch of salt
- butter 100g (softened is easier)
- caster sugar 50g
- raisins/currants 50g
- 1 medium egg
- 2 tablespoons of milk
ingredients I'm using!
The above picture is of the ingredients I'm going to use! I had a plan to make some chocolate ones but might have to do another post as I can't put all the images into just one post (too many!).
I added to my raisin Welsh cakes some ground cinnamon just to mix it up a little!
Steps
So to start, I first sifted my flour, baking powder and ground cinnamon into a large bowl. I tried to soften some butter, but should've softened it a bit more than what I did here (but not melted!).
the bowl
I mixed the dry ingredients together a bit before using my hands to mix the butter and dry mixture together, into crumbs.
the crumb mixture
In a separate bowl I whisked the egg and milk together, before adding it to the crumb mixture.
the liquids and dry ingredient bowl!
I mixed that up a bit before remembering I needed to add the raisins!
raisins!
After that was mixed together (using a bowl and then just my hands). I placed half of the dough onto a floured surface, ready to roll out.
ball of dough!
I rolled out the dough to about 5mm in thickness, don't want it too thick or thin! When I got it to a thickness I was happy with, it was time to cut out the shapes. Welsh cakes are traditionally round with an almost serrated edge, but I decided to also use hearts and clover-like cutters too.
In the picture below, the metal cutter is what the traditional shape of Welsh cakes is like.
cutting into shape
After cutting out as many as I could (making sure to use the most of the dough as I could), I placed the shapes onto the pre-heated griddle I had ready. Welsh cakes are cooked on a griddle, almost like pancakes. I just use an old crepe machine I had (flat surface which gets distributed evenly) and that works well for me!
on the "griddle"!
After a few minutes, I flipped them for their golden side! Some may have broken but that won't affect the taste of course.
almost ready
And I was done with the raisin Welsh cakes! I made another batch afterwards with chocolate chips and I will show how I did that in another post 😊
done
This recipe can get a lot of Welsh cakes out of it and is both delicious and easy! I'd recommend giving it a go.