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This week local taffy Hayley Talkes sent in her family's traditional Welsh Cake recipe (see below) to celebrate St David's Day.
We don't have a griddle so we had a go at cooking them on top of our wood burning stove!
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WELSH CAKE RECIPE
225g plain flour
100g butter
75g caster sugar
50g currants/sultanas (and/or orange/lemon peel to give a zest flavour)
1/2tsp baking powder
1 egg
little milk
Rub fat into flour to make breadcrumbs, add sugar, fruit then egg and mix to combine forming a ball of dough. Use a splash of milk if needed to bring it all together. Roll out until it is 1/4in thick and cut into rounds with a cutter. You need a heavy iron griddle or bakestone (welsh:maen) and rub it with butter and remove the excess. Put it onto a direct heat (gas is best) and wait until it heats up, place the welsh cakes on the griddle turning once until they are a golden colour. When cooked dust with caster sugar and eat warm or cold. Some people like them with jam /butter.
