Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, traditional welsh cakes. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Welsh cakes (Welsh: picau ar y maen, pice bach, cacennau cri or teisennau gradell), also bakestones or pics, are traditional in Wales. 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.
Traditional Welsh Cakes is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Traditional Welsh Cakes is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have traditional welsh cakes using 5 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Traditional Welsh Cakes:
- Prepare 275 g self rising flour
- Make ready 150 g sugar
- Take 105 g butter or lacto free spread
- Make ready 100 g raisins or currants
- Take 2 eggs
Welsh cakes are delightfully rustic, delicate, and delicious. They're like a cross between a scone and the fluffiest of pancakes–perfect with a cup of tea. Welsh cakes are a traditional tea-time treat that are really easy to make. Welsh cakes are cooked on a bakestone or maen—the stone on which they are griddled.
Steps to make Traditional Welsh Cakes:
- Add 250g of the flour to a mixing bowl.
- Measure in 100g of the butter.
- Mix well, I like to use my fingers.
- Add in the currants and 100g of sugar and mix.
- Add the eggs and mix.
- Create a thin layer of flour on a surface you don't mind cutting. Dust the rolling pin.
- Lay out the mixture to the thickness of the currants. Use more flour if required.
- Begin to cut into rounds.
- Repeat rolling and cutting till there is no mixture left.
- Use butter to apply to the bake stone putting on full heat.
- Sprinkle the cakes with sugar. When the stone is hot, place the cakes sugar side down, and sprinkle more sugar.
- Flip the cakes half way.
- Place the cakes on a cooling tray and sprinkle with more sugar on each side.
- Repeat until all the cakes are cooked.
- Serve, usually with a cup of tea!
Although bake stones are found in all the Celtic countries, only in Wales do they griddle these sweet cakes. Eaten and enjoyed regularly throughout Wales, these traditional cakes, or a version thereof, have been kicking around for as long as anyone can remember. There is nothing fancy about a Welsh. Welsh Cakes are very similar to a scone, only instead of baking them in the oven they are cooked on a griddle. Welsh Cakes (sometimes called Bakestones, Picau Ar Y Maen, Pice Bach or Miner's Cakes) are delicious traditional cakes from Wales.
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