mardi 24 décembre 2013

Lovely And Tasty Welsh Cookies

By Eugenia Dickerson


Welsh cookies became very popular lately, but they really are traditional Welsh desserts. Although they taste very similar to ordinary cookies, you don't make them in the oven. Instead, you cook the dough on a pancake griddle. Easy to prepare and very tasty, these small snacks can be a perfect dessert after your lunch, or a nice breakfast choice.

A temperature controlled griddle can be very useful for baking these lovely snacks, but your thick pancake pan or a nonstick skillet are also quite good. The temperature should be around one hundred and sixty degrees, and your lovely little snacks need to become beautifully golden brown.

Traditional recipe contains flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, nutmeg, eggs, butter, lard and currants. Some recipes contain raisins and cinnamon, some don't, but it really depends only on your personal taste. In some regions people use more baking powder, and their cookies are more fluffy and bigger.

Round Welsh cakes are traditional, but all other shapes are good as well. The dough should be one half of an inch up to one inch thick. Don't make it too thin, because you might burn it, or too thick, because they won't be baked as they should. They should become golden brown.

Traditionally, people put raisins and currants in the mixture. You can also add grated apples or pears, your favorite berries or some other fresh fruits, finely chopped. Fresh fruits will add moisture, and your cakes will stay longer fresh. Besides, they will be even tastier this way. Dried fruits, for example apricots, can also be added.

One traditional recipe contains four hundred grams of flour, appropriate amount of baking powder and a little bit of baking soda, one hundred grams of currants, one egg, a pinch of salt, one hundred and fifty grams of sugar, some nutmeg and a little bit of milk. Original recipe contains one hundred and twenty grams of lard and the same amount of butter, but you can use only butter instead.

Prepare your dough the way you would prepare a dough for your pie. So, mix flour, baking powder and baking soda, salt and nutmeg with butter and lard, until it forms crumbs. Add sugar and other ingredients, and enough milk to make the perfect dough, a little bit moister than your pie dough would be. You can save it in your refrigerator.

You could also freeze the dough and use it when you need. In any case, you should roll it out and bake your small cakes on a temperature controlled griddle or a nonstick skillet on both sides, until golden brown. Make sure not to burn them, and in just a few minutes you will have tasty little desserts you will simply love.

These lovely Welsh cookies are widely popular thanks to their great taste. Try the original recipe, and then you can add your favorite spices to it, according to your own taste. It is not advisable to put chocolate in the mixture, but chocolate cream will taste great with both hot and cold desserts.




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