Welsh cakes

[Cheekystar]

feeling homesick, so thought I'd just let everyone know how nice homemade welsh cakes are (shop bought ones come pretty close too) the smell when they're cooking on the stove. Mmmm, with butter on

has anyone else sampled these delights?

[mata hari]

Absolutely super! Make a giant batch, as they get eaten as they come off the skillet!!

[mkt]

love making welsh cakes......so easy to be lazy though as you can buy them in every bakery (and there are about 10 within a mile radius damn it!) at �1 for 6. When you make your own though and you eat them as they are made....yum yum. Has to be lashings of butter of them even though i rarelt have butter on anything! Nice bit of raspberry jam sometimes works wonders too.

[maxi29]

I used to love it when I came home from school and my grandmother was making them - I could smell them from the front gate. I used to eat them plain: no jam, no butter, fresh from the griddle.

Mmm...it's got me thinking that I should make some now.

[ermintrude35]

...oooh , now seems like a good time to ask, when you make welsh cakes, do you cut them in rounds or triangles?.... my mam has always cut them with a round pastry cutter, but I have stuck to my grandmother;s (father's side ) and cut them into triangles from a large round...so what are your preferances...?

[dot.hawkes]

I've just had a packet of Chorley cakes all to myself! They are gorgeous.

[sunflower68]

Right, that's enough!! Recipe please cheekystar.

[beejaybee]

According to everyone, my mam made GORGEOUS Welsh cakes befrore she went ill. I HATE anything with dried fruit in it, or spots as I call them. Sounds like there `s a lot of Taffys here.

[Cheekystar]

Welsh cakes should be round, when I couldn't find a round cutter I'd use a glass, worked just as well!, and unfortunately as I'm now 'over the border I can't get hold of any till I go home (4 hours journey) strange how you miss the little things (along with my mam, dog, and the sea!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/welshcakes_67264.shtml

I've not tried this recepie so I have no idea how effective it is. But lets face it they ain't that hard to make, special at 'tea time'

Diolch i pawb !

[maxi29]

Cheeky, that recipe looks about right (although I prefer currants to sultanas). I must say that it looks like a lot of dough to get just four to six cakes - how thick is she making them?

And Ermintrude, they have to be round - triangular welsh cakes sound a bit avant-garde to me :-)