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Welsh cakes
Also known as: Welsh cakes, homemade
Welsh griddle cakes made with butter, sugar, sultanas and egg.
About Welsh cakes
Welsh Cakes are small round griddle cakes traditionally cooked on a bakestone. This profile follows Visit Wales's butter branch and uses one egg, keeping its second egg only as a conditional adjustment if the dough is too dry.
Butter gives the cakes a mellow dairy richness, while caster sugar brings a light sweetness. Sultanas add concentrated fruitiness against the simple egg-bound wheat dough.
The cakes are small, flat rounds with mottled golden-brown griddle marks and pale edges. They are tender and short inside, with chewy pockets of sultana rather than the airy crumb of an oven-baked scone.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Milk, Egg.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Welsh cakes
Visit Wales Traditional Welsh Cakes.
- Self-raising wheat flourCake structure and lift
- Caster sugarLight sweetness
- ButterTender dairy richness
- SultanasChewy dried-fruit sweetness
- EggDough binding and richness
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Self-raising wheat flour: . Self-raising flour maps to wheat flour; the source does not identify its raising-agent blend or exact commercial formula
- Caster sugar:
- Butter: . The source offers margarine or butter; this profile fixes the butter branch
- Sultanas: . Sultanas map to the established raisin route as golden dried grapes
- Egg:
Origins & food traditions
Visit Wales supplies the complete traditional recipe selected here, including self-raising flour, sugar, butter or margarine, sultanas and egg, and directs that the rounds be cooked on a griddle. Its separate guide to Welsh-cake makers independently describes them as a traditional Welsh food cooked in small griddled batches.
Countries
- Wales
- United Kingdom
Cuisines & regions
- Welsh Cuisine
- British Cuisine