Step-by-Step Guide to Make Award-winning Welsh Cakes

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, welsh cakes. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Welsh cakes (Welsh: picau ar y maen, pice bach, cacennau cri or teisennau gradell), also bakestones or pics, are traditional in Wales. Welsh Cakes are very similar to a scone, only instead of baking them in the oven they are cooked on a griddle. Welsh Cakes are the perfect breakfast on the feast day of their native country's patron saint, St. I grew up eating Welsh Cakes.

Welsh Cakes is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Welsh Cakes is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have welsh cakes using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Welsh Cakes:

1. Get 1 lb Self Raising Flour
2. Take 1/2 lb butter or soft margarine
3. Take 1/2 lb sugar
4. Take 1 tsp mixed spice
5. Get 6 oz sultanas
6. Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
7. Make ready 2 large eggs, beaten

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Instructions to make Welsh Cakes:

1. Rub together the margarine and flour until it resembles breadcrumbs.
2. Add the sugar, spice, sultanas and baking powder to the bowl and combine.
3. Make a well in the centre and add the eggs. Bring together, firstly with a knife then with your hands, to make a wet-ish dough.
4. Roll out on a well floured surface to about 1 ½ cm thick and cut into rounds.
5. Heat a thick based non stick frying pan or bake stone to medium. Use a metal spatula or pallet knife to place the cakes onto the pan approx 6 at a time. When lightly browned on one side, flip over and cook on the other side.
6. Transfer to a wire rack to cool while you cook another batch. When cold keep in an airtight tin. They will keep for up to a week.
7. You might want to omit the sultanas then you can make them a little thicker and split them and spread with jam.

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