{"id":585,"date":"2011-10-09T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T11:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=585"},"modified":"2011-10-09T12:03:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T12:03:19","slug":"welsh-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"
I started making Welsh Cakes about 23 years ago because they satisfied the Sweet Tooth without a whole lot of sugar! The only trouble is that they are very addictive! “Oh, just one more…”<\/div>\n
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3 cups Flour<\/div>\n
1 1\/2 teaspoons Baking Powder<\/div>\n
1\/2 teaspoon Baking Soda<\/div>\n
3\/4 tsp Nutmeg<\/div>\n
1 tsp Cinnamon<\/div>\n
1\/2 teaspoon Salt<\/div>\n
1 cup Shortening (butter works too)<\/div>\n
1\/4 cup Sugar<\/div>\n
2 Eggs, lightly beaten<\/div>\n
1\/3 cup Milk<\/div>\n
1 cup Currants<\/div>\n
1\/4 cup Sugar or Icing Sugar<\/div>\n
1 teaspoon Cinnamon<\/div>\n
Combine Sugar or Icing Sugar and Cinnamon in s small, wide bowl; Set aside.<\/div>\n
Cream together Shortening and Sugar. Add Milk and Eggs.<\/div>\n
Sift in Flour, BP, BS, Salt, Nutmeg and Cinnamon and stir.<\/div>\n
Add currants and continue stirring.<\/div>\n
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Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and gently knead until soft and smooth, about 10 times.<\/div>\n
Apply another light dusting of flour to work surface and proceed to roll dough out to 1\/4 inch thickness.<\/div>\n
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Cut with desired cookie cutter.<\/div>\n
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Preheat Cast Iron frying pan over Medium High heat.<\/div>\n
Add 6 – 8 Welsh Cakes to dry pan, depending on size, and cook for 3 minutes; flip and continue cooking for another 3 minutes.<\/div>\n
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Remove from pan and drop into Sugar\/Cinnamon mixture to coat each Welsh Cake.<\/div>\n
Cool completely on a wire rack.<\/div>\n


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I started making Welsh Cakes about 23 years ago because they satisfied the Sweet Tooth without a whole lot of sugar! The only trouble is that they are very addictive! “Oh, just one more…” 3 cups Flour 1 1\/2 teaspoons Baking Powder 1\/2 teaspoon Baking Soda 3\/4 tsp Nutmeg 1 tsp Cinnamon 1\/2 teaspoon Salt … Continue reading Welsh Cakes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-is-for-cookie-and-cookie-is-for-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}