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Welsh Cakes

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 24 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, easy, recipes for scones, recipes using all-purpose flour, recipes using butter, recipes using egg, recipes using superfine sugar, recipes with images, recipes with metric units, welsh

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AWelsh_Cakes)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AWelsh%20Cakes&oldid=4656763

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 450 g (2 cups or 1 lb) plain flour
  • 225 g (1 cup or 8 oz) butter
  • 170 g (¾ cup or 6 oz) castor sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 85 g (3 oz) currants, sultanas, raisins or other dried fruit
  • dash of milk
  • pinch of salt

Directions

  1. In a large mixing bowl, sift the flour then rub together with the butter and salt until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
  2. Mix in sugar and dried fruit.
  3. Add eggs one at a time, beating together until mixture forms a thick dough. If dough will not form, add a small amount of milk (i.e. a tablespoon).
  4. Knead for two to three minutes until dough becomes cohesive and slightly elastic.
  5. Roll dough out on a flat surface.
  6. Cut 2–3-inch circles from the dough and fry
  7. Preheat a griddle on high than lower it to medium-low (this is important to stop burning)
  8. Griddle 2-4 minutes on each side until golden brown.

Equipment

Sieve, Mixing bowl, Wooden spoon, Rolling pin, Scone cutter or cookie cutter, Griddle