Making Welsh Cakes
Tutor: Sian Roberts, Welsh cookery presenter and owner of Loving Welsh Food
Join Sian as she shows us how to make these tempting traditional Welsh specialities – Welsh Cakes.
Preparation
Set out your ingredients and equipment.
Video time
34 minutes
- 125g self-raising flour
- 60g salted butter
- 50g caster sugar
- ½ teaspoon mixed spice
- 40g sultanas
- ½ beaten egg – little milk if needed
- 1 large mixing bowl
- Wooden spoon/table spoon
- A small bowl
- Knife, fork and tea spoons
- Rolling pin
- Cake cutters (small round ones)
- Griddle/heavy based frying pan
- Cooling tray
- Rub the butter into the flour until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.
- Add the sugar, mixed spice and sultanas and mix well. Add the beaten egg and bring all the ingredients together, starting with a spoon, and then use your hands to bring everything together to form a dough.
- Sprinkle some flour on your rolling mat/chopping board. Roll the dough out on the mat/board to a thickness of about 5 mm. Cut into shapes and keep rolling and cutting until the dough is used up.
- Take to the griddle area to cook – be careful, the griddles are very hot.
- Cook the cakes until they are brown on both sides – usually a few minutes. Cool on a cooling tray and sprinkle with sugar.