St David’s Day Welsh Cakes from Humble and Whole Bakery #Recipe

Victoria Hayes
1st March 2022

Happy St David's Day! - Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! This classic Welsh cake recipe couldn’t be easier; it’s a great recipe to get the kids involved baking too as it requires little effort and takes under 30 mins!

• Add butter and lard and rub with fingers (like making scones)
• Mix in currents
• Add egg and mix with a knife, add splash of milk
• Bring mixture together with your hands
• Roll out to a thickness of around 5mm and cut out rounds using a 6cm fluted cutter
• Keep going until you use up all the dough
•  Traditionally, a bakestone is used to cook this little treats, but I use a large frying pan or griddle –   Rub it with butter and wipe the excess away. Once warm, place the Welsh cakes in the pan and cook for 2–3 minutes on each side, or until caramel brown. (Be careful not to heat the pan too much or they will burn!)
• Dust generously with caster sugar
• They keep in an air tight container for a week, if you can resist not eating them hot with a paned! (cup of tea!)

Recipe Info

Serves

makes 16

Serving Suggestions

You can customise this recipe as you choose, by adding lemon/orange zest, chocolate chips, dedicated coconut…whatever you like! Or you can keep it traditional

Ingredients

225g Plain Flour
1tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp mixed spice
1/2 tsp salt (try @halenmon)
50g butter cubed
50g lard cubed plus extra for frying ( or just use butter)
1 egg, beaten
50g currents/sultanas
Splash milk

Equipment

frying pan or griddle
scales
mixing bowl
whisk
knife
6cm fluted cutter
rolling pin