To make Welsh Cakes myself

[TheShellBeach]

I keep buying them from Ebay and the quality is variable.

Some were delivered today which seem to have had the sugar omitted from the recipe altogether. V. disappointing.

I would like to know how to make them myself. Can anyone help with a fool-proof recipe?

I always use all butter and a good quality dried fruit mix, not just currants or sultanas.

I had a colleague who used to make them; they always smelled amazing but I hate currants or any dried fruit so I never ate one, I think I’d like the chocolate chip version though!

You really, really should make them yourself OP. Bought ones are all very well, but they’re a million times nicer hot off the griddle! My sister and I used to hang around like vultures when our grandma was making them - quick sprinkle of sugar, then wolf them down. You may burn all the skin off the roof of your mouth, but IT’S WORTH IT

They are very easy to make. My kids like jammy ones.......omit the fruit and spice and cook as normal, when cool cut in half and spread with jam.
The best way to cook them is on a pancake maker.
Total gamechanger.

This thread bringing back memories. My mum was Welsh and made the most amazing Welsh cakes. Am going to give them a go with my granddaughter on Friday.

Thanks so much to you all for your contributions.

I'm especially grateful for the link to the online makers of Welsh Cakes.

Have discovered why the last batch I got from Ebay are so disappointing. There's no sugar on them! So I've been dipping them in caster sugar and they're much nicer.

Start making them, stop paying £££ for them online, and use the money saved for something you can't make yourself - like gin!

They are SO easy to make, and super quick. And will taste way better than anything made days ago and shipped.

They are incredibly easy to make. I think they were the first thing I ever baked in infants, must have been a St David's Day thing. I remember several of them sliding off the paper plate as I tried to get across the playground to my mum at home time 🫣

As others have said very easy to make yourself. I follow Mary Berry's recipe from her aga cookbook, never failed yet. I use my stand mixer rather than by hand.

My dd doesn't like sultanas so I do a batch of plain ones although sometimes I slice them and put a little jam in the middle for her.

A shop around here sells 6 for £4 cooked fresh but daylight robbery.

If you want burnt ones, follow a recipe I once did that suggested you needed a hot griddle. That meant burnt outside, raw middle. A medium frying pan meant they cooked through and came out nicely browned rather than burnt black.

I accept I will probably never manage a Welsh cake of the quality of Joan in the village's, but once I got the heat right, I could produce ones which I wouldn't be ashamed to share at a whist drive in the village hall...

Thanks for this. Whenever I have mentioned making them to other people, I am always told I need a griddle.
I can't cook for shit, but I will give Welsh cakes a go.

So easy to make and lovely with a cup of tea.
I always do one first to see if I’ve got the heat right. Not too hot and I turn them when I see the top side start to melt when the heat comes through, they just need a short time then. I agree that slightly undercooked is far nicer. Sprinkle with sugar both sides while warm. I use Mary Berry’s recipe.
Also agree that Tan Y Castell are the best, some of the others are just unpleasant. Freeze brilliantly.

DH makes brilliant ones and they are best slightly burned in my opinion.

It sounds blasphemous but a former colleague used to make dark chocolate orange chip ones and they were lush.

Oh yes, slightly burnt is best.

Welsh cakes make me think of my darling (Welsh) grandparents. A warm kitchen, tea from a pot that has a novelty tea cosy on it, and a plate of Welsh cakes.

I've never made them myself. I'm going to have a go this weekend.

I got some gluten free ones from there this week, they were so good!

@TheShellBeach I don't know whereabouts in Scotland you are, but I bought some Welsh cakes in M&S in Glasgow today and have got them in the Edinburgh and Aberdeen stores before too. Just in case you're ever near a city M&S.

I tried those Tan Y Castell ones and thought they were really dry, even with butter. That was the first time I'd had Welsh cakes, are they meant to be so dry?

Yes, much nicer home made. I too use the Good Food recipe with all butter and raisins instead of currants. I also make plain ones with extra mixed spice. A larger frying pan is fine to cook them.

I make them frequently, it's so simple. My kids hang around me at the hob and pinch them as soon as they're ready. I sprinkle sugar on the top.
I had a work colleague insist that you must put butter and jam on the top but this is an egregious mistake.

Nigella's recipe but double the quantity so it's an entire block of butter and add more spice than she says. You'll thank me.

They are the simplest thing in the world to make. Don't buy them. Make it your mission to nail making them yourself.

They are the very definition of soul food. Good for your soul.

😃

Another vote for Nigella. Really well explained recipe. They're SO much better fresh and warm from the pan.

I'm welsh, me and my mum use Delia smiths griddle cake recipe, but we add more mixed spice. Bendigedig!

They are really simple to make and you can make a load of the dough and keep it in the fridge and just take out what you want to bake that day for breakfast. Yum

I find the Tan y Castell ones to be quite dry, but I really like the Waitrose and M&S ones.

they are so easy to make though, we would make them in school at about 11yo and manage quite easily.

go for it!

Super easy, BBC good food recipe works well. Lovely warm.