Welsh Cakes. 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. I grew up eating Welsh Cakes.
Welsh cakes are scone-like teacakes are delightfully rustic and informal, while also managing to be delicate and delicious. Fancy making Welsh cakes for a tasty treat? A very authentic and traditional Welsh Cakes recipe. You can have Welsh Cakes using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Welsh Cakes
- Prepare 225 g of self-raising flour.
- You need 1 pinch of salt.
- You need 1/2 tsp of equal parts cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger.
- You need 100 g of butter.
- You need 50 g of caster sugar.
- It's 1 of egg.
- Prepare 3 tbsp of milk.
- It's 25 g of blueberries.
- You need 25 g of dark chocolate chips.
Unforgettably flaky, tender, almost melt-in-your-mouth texture that's punctuated with sweet currants and laced with a wonderful hint of mace. See more ideas about Welsh cake, Welsh recipes, Food. Welsh Cakes - An old family recipe, traditionally served warm, simply with a little butter on the tops! Welsh Cakes are very similar to a scone, only instead of baking them in the oven they are cooked on a griddle.
Welsh Cakes instructions
- 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.
Welsh Cakes have a lovely golden brown outer crust, yet inside they are wonderfully soft. I am welsh, living in Canada. I have always made welsh cakes and my husband said that they were never as good as his mothers! I tried this recipe and now these are BETTER THAN HIS. Jammed with summer berries & vanilla cream. "I completely fell in love with Welsh cakes after Jim gave me my first taste of one in Pontypridd market.