Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, welsh cakes. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Welsh Cakes is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Welsh Cakes is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Welsh cakes (Welsh: picau ar y maen, pice bach, cacennau cri or teisennau gradell), also bakestones or pics, are traditional in Wales. I grew up eating Welsh Cakes. A very authentic and traditional Welsh Cakes recipe.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have welsh cakes using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Welsh Cakes:

1. Get 225 g Plain Flour
2. Take 50 g Butter
3. Make ready 50 g Lard
4. Get 50 g Raisens
5. Make ready 85 g Caster Sugar
6. Get half teaspoon mixed spice
7. Make ready half teaspoon baking powder
8. Get 1 large egg

Welsh Cakes are very similar to a scone, only instead of baking them in the oven they are cooked on a griddle. Welsh Cakes have a lovely golden brown outer crust, yet inside they are wonderfully soft. Welsh Cakes,are often known as Bakestones - they also have lots of other names in Welsh including Picau Ar Y Maen, Pice Bach Ar Y Maen, Cacen Gri and Teisen Radell! Welsh cakes are scone-like teacakes are delightfully rustic and informal, while also managing to be delicate and delicious.

Steps to make Welsh Cakes:

1. In a mixing bowl add the flour, sugar, mixed spice raisins, baking powder and a pinch of salt. Cut the lard and butter into small cubes. Add to the mix and using your fingers rub together until a crumbly dry mixture.
2. Put onto a floured surface and roll out to about half an inch thick cut into 2 inch circles I used the top of a large glass
3. Using a non- stick flat bottomed pan on a low heat add the circles of mixture and cook slowly each side until they start to Brown
4. Once cooked put them on a cooling rack, dust with icing sugar and enjoy when cold. I managed to make about 10 Welsh cakes with the above mixture

How to make the perfect Welsh cakes in four easy steps for a teatime treat. Fancy making Welsh cakes for a tasty treat? These have been a huge success with everyone who has tasted them, and because You can now watch Welsh Cakes being cooked and served in our Cookery School Perfect Cakes. Welsh cakes are cooked on a bakestone or maen—the stone on which they are griddled. Although bake stones are found in all the Celtic countries, only in Wales do they griddle these sweet cakes.

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