easy welsh cake recipe 5AH

How were welsh cakes found

Welsh cakes were a popular meal replacement in the 18th century and also in the 19th century in Wales. The cakes are a cross between a cookie, a scone, and a pancake. Welsh Cakes were traditionally made by the lady of the household as a treat to serve at afternoon tea, and were also given to children with their school lunches.

ingredients

.1 Flour .2 caster Sugar . 3 Butter .4 Salt 5. Raisins 6. 1 table spoon baking powder .7 Cinnamon .8 1large egg .9 Bowl .10 rolling pin .11 whisk or a spatula.

We doubled the ingredients to make more for out class!.

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Step 1>First, we add 200g of purpose flour and 50g of caster sugar into the same bowl.

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Step 2. Then, we put a teaspoon of baking powder, a pinch of salt and another teaspoon of cinnamon into the same bowl.

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step 3. After that, we cut 125g of soft butter and poured the butter into the bowl with the dry ingredients and we mixed firmly until crumbly consistency.

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step 4. next, we added the butter our partner cracked one large egg into a separate bowl and we mixed the egg and poured it into the doughy mixture

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step 5. Now, we carefully added a pinch of flour to the table so the dough would not stick, then, we poured the doughy mixture on the table and began rolling it about 1CM thick.

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step 6. After, we got a bottle cap (a cup is fine too!) and firmly placed the bottle cap into the dough until a circle shape, after we used all the room we folding the dough and rolled it out again to get more dough for more welsh cakes.

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step 7. After that, we sprayed cooking spray on the pan then we evenly placed the circle shapes into the pan and cooked them for about 1 minute than flip them over until both sides are golden brown.

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step 8. when done, place them evenly on a clean plate and sprinkle some sugar on top for an extra bit of taste, then eat them and hopefully enjoy!.

Thank you for reading!! bon appétit!

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