Warm Welsh Cakes with Whimberry Compote

Name: Warm Welsh Cakes with Whimberry Compote
Yield: Makes a lot of Welsh cakes!
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 pinch of ground cinnamon; 1 medium egg, beaten; 100 g raisins; 1 pinch of ground allspice; unsalted butter, clotted cream and whimberry compote, to serve; unsalted butter, clotted cream and whimberry compote, to serve; unsalted butter, clotted cream and whimberry compote, to serve; 250 g self-raising flour; 75 g caster sugar; 125 g unsalted butter

Preparation info

Makes
a
lot of Welsh cakes!

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooks Country

By Matt Tebbutt

Published 2008

About

I’m only a recent convert to Welsh cakes, preferably warm off the griddle, but my wife grew up on them and persuaded me to give them a go. They work really well with fruit compote and here I’ve used the local whimberries picked off the Blorenge.

Ingredients

125 g unsalted butter
250 g self-raising flour
75 g

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegetarian
Autumn
October
September

Method

Rub the butter and flour together in a bowl to make a breadcrumb-like texture, then add the sugar, raisins and spices. Bind the mix with the beaten egg. Roll out to about 1 cm thickness and cut to shape with a 7 cm pastry cutter.

Heat a flat frying pan over a moderate heat and dry-fry the c