Welsh Cakes

• Vegetarian

• Produce

  • 1/4 cup Currants

• Refrigerated

  • 1 Egg, medium

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/4 cup Caster sugar
  • 1 Caster sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt

• Dairy

  • 1/2 cup Butter, unsalted
  • 2 tbsp Milk

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Description

Directions

• In a large bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, salt and caster sugar. Cut in the butter using a pastry blender. You can also use your fingers to rub the butter in, until you get a fine bread crumb consistency. Be careful not to rub the butter too much and melt it. Toss in the currants.
• In a small bowl, beat the egg and milk together.
• Using a fork, mix the egg mixture into the flour mixture, until just mixed. Use your hands to finish mixing the dough together. It should be short, so dont over mix. The dough should be wet, but not too sticky to handle. Add in more milk as needed.
• Heat a cast-iron skillet on medium to medium-low heat with a little bit of oil.
• Pour the dough out onto a lightly floured silicon mat. Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll the dough out until about 1-cm thick. Using a 7-cm diameter cookie cutter, cut out as many rounds as you can. Combine the remaining dough together, and roll it out again until about 1-cm thick. Cut out as many rounds as you can. Repeat as necessary, but note that with each successive rolling and cutting, the pastry may get over mixed.
• Once the cast-iron skillet is ready, cook each side of the welsh cakes for 4 minutes. Adjust the heat as needed so that the welsh cake becomes a golden brown with 4 minutes on each side (I switched my induction hob between heat levels 4/9 and 5/9).
• Transfer to a cooling rack and sprinkle them with caster sugar.