Simple Way to Prepare Perfect Welsh Cakes

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 that.

Ingredients of Welsh Cakes

1. You need 225 g of self-raising flour.
2. Prepare 1 pinch of salt.
3. It's 1/2 tsp of equal parts cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger.
4. It's 100 g of butter.
5. It's 50 g of caster sugar.
6. Prepare 1 of egg.
7. You need 3 tbsp of milk.
8. You need 25 g of blueberries.
9. 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 step by step

1. Mix sifted flour, spices and salt together in a large bowl.
2. Using your fingertips rub the butter into the dried ingredients.
3. Sift in the caster sugar and mix well.
4. Beat together the egg and milk then mix in with the other ingredients until you have a stiff dough.
5. Divide the dough into two bowls adding chocolate chips to one bowl and blueberries to the other (mixing well).
6. Roll each of the doughs between baking paper until about 0.5cm thickness and then refrigerate for 1 hour.
7. Using a cookie cutter cut out circles of the dough.
8. Preheat a frying pan with a little butter, then carefully place in the welsh cakes.
9. Cook the welsh cakes for 4 minutes then flip and cook for another 4 minutes until golden brown and risen slightly.
10. 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.