Making welsh cakes - help!

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Just got back from a week in wales where we got slightly addicted to welsh cakes.

The recipe I found is:
2oz butter
2oz lard
3oz caster sugar
8oz SR flour
1 egg
and "enough fruit"

I don't own a heavy bottomed frying pan, but I do have a griddle pan (but that would leave lines, yes?)

Should I just use an ordinary frying pan?

Do a test cake to see if your frying pan is up to the job. I wouldn't put them in the griddle pan personally as they need to cook through and I doubt the darker lines of pastry would be tasty.

No mixed spice in there? I would add a generous pinch along with the flour but that's just my preference. Let us know how you get on!

Mixed spice sounds good! I just know they won't live up to the ones we bought, but I do think they will be nice warm.

LL - it sounds a bit lke making pastry, you have to mix flour & fat to make breadcrumbs, add the sugar, then the egg, and then the fruit. Roll it out & cut into circles.

I'm sure they'll be lovely, but if you do a few test cakes you can alter the mix before putting the rest on, adding more/different spices, or a pinch of salt etc

I'm sure they'll be fine, the recipe sounds about right. Good luck.

thanks... i will let you know hoe I get on

They have turned out lovely... after I burned the first few. I feel like a greedy guzzler now, as I have eaten 5 already.

DS2 has helped me eat some, and said "niiiice" - he is almost two, so thats a good compliment!

They sound good, any way you can email me over some welsh cakes? I'm peckish...

recipe?? Howdo you make them???

oh you always burn the first few...

was planning on doing some baking this afternoon, and now I know what to make!
I have an ancient ancestral recipe whose secret ingredients is...

marmalade

marmalade in Welsh cakes - surely not

Blimey I'd murder for a warm welshcake

they don't come out tasting marmaladey, just indefineably extra nice

there seem to be so many variations. I think I will have fun experimenting with these.