As it is St David's day today, and as the Welsh rugby team were playing yesterday (they won!) I decided making Welsh cakes would be a fitting activity for me an elder son to do.
I had never actually made Welsh Cakes before, so I googled, and the top result was this BBC article so decided to go with that, with some alterations, as always, based on what we had in the cupboards/could be bothered to buy.
It's a good recipe to do with children, as its really just measure out the dry ingredients, then rub in the butter, then roll and cut out - all of which can be done with pretty much any age children (elder son is 3 1/2 and he helped with all steps).
I had never actually made Welsh Cakes before, so I googled, and the top result was this BBC article so decided to go with that, with some alterations, as always, based on what we had in the cupboards/could be bothered to buy.
It's a good recipe to do with children, as its really just measure out the dry ingredients, then rub in the butter, then roll and cut out - all of which can be done with pretty much any age children (elder son is 3 1/2 and he helped with all steps).
Ingredients
- 225 grams plain flour
- 85 grams caster sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg (this and the cinnamon was in absence of all spice, where as we had these, so i just jammed these in)
- 110 grams unsalted butter
- 40 grams raisins
- 40 grams choc chunks
- 1 large egg
Method
Lightly grease a heavy base pan
- Chop the butter up into small-ish cubes
- Weigh out dry ingredients and rub in butter
- Add raisins and choc chunks
- Add the egg and combine until you have a smooth dough
- Flour a surface and roll out the dough so about 1 cm thick
- Cut the welsh cakes to whatever shape you want (as you can see, we had hearts, stars, circles and gingerbread-men shapes)
- Cook them in batches on the pan, roughly 3-5 minutes each side (until lightly browned)
- Take them off the heat, sprinkle with caster sugar and eat whilst still warm
- Watch Wales win in the Rugby