Welsh Cakes

Name: Welsh Cakes
Total time: 480 s
Yield: 17 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 225 g self-raising flour; 1 pinch salt; 1/2 tsp equal parts cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger; 100 g butter; 50 g caster sugar; 1 egg; 3 tbsp milk; 25 g blueberries; 25 g dark chocolate chips

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Blueberry or chocolate Welsh Cakes
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nicolehooper @nicolehooper

Blueberry or chocolate Welsh Cakes
#mycookbook

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Ingredients

8 minutes

17 servings

225 gself-raising flour
1 pinchsalt
1/2 tspequal parts cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger
100 gbutter
50 gcaster sugar
1egg
3 tbspmilk
25 gblueberries
25 gdark chocolate chips

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Steps

8 minutes

1

Mix sifted flour, spices and salt together in a large bowl
2

Using your fingertips rub the butter into the dried ingredients
3

Sift in the caster sugar and mix well
4

Beat together the egg and milk then mix in with the other ingredients until you have a stiff dough
5

Divide the dough into two bowls adding chocolate chips to one bowl and blueberries to the other (mixing well)
6

Roll each of the doughs between baking paper until about 0.5cm thickness and then refrigerate for 1 hour
7

Using a cookie cutter cut out circles of the dough
8

Preheat a frying pan with a little butter, then carefully place in the welsh cakes
9

Cook the welsh cakes for 4 minutes then flip and cook for another 4 minutes until golden brown and risen slightly
10

Remove from the heat, sprinkle with a little caster sugar and serve