Tiessennau Mel Honey Cakes Welsh Recipes

TIESSENNAU MEL (HONEY CAKES) WELSH

Steps:

• Preheat oven - Gas mark 6 (400F) or 7 (425F) or 200°C If you are using a fan oven, reduce by 25°C.
• Grease your patty tins.
• Sieve together flour, cinnamon and bicarbonate of soda.
• Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
• Separate the egg yolk from the white.
• Beat the yolk into sugar and butter, then add the honey, gradually.
• Stir in the flour with a little milk as required and mix all together lightly.
• Whisk the egg white into a stiff froth and fold into mixture.
• Half fill small patty tins with the mixture; dredge the top of each with caster sugar.
• Bake in a hot oven for 20 minutes. Watch these little fellows carefully. They brown rather quickly.
• When ready sprinkle a little more sugar.
• Croeso Cymreig.

RECIPES

Steps:

• Step 1:Preheat the oven to 180C (fan 160C, gas mark 4) and grease a 12 hole non stick muffin tin.Step 2:Sieve together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, allspice and cinnamon.Step 3:Cream together the butter, sugar and honey until light and fluffy.Step 4:Gradually beat in the eggs and then fold in the flour mixture, adding the milk for a dropping consistency.Step 5:Divide equally between the 12 holes of the muffin tin. Bake in the oven for 25 minutes until risen, golden and springy to the touch.Step 6:Remove and cool in the tin for 5 minutes and then turn them out to continue cooling on a wire rack.Step 7:To make the icing mix the icing sugar with the extract and 2 tablespoons of water to make an icing that just runs off a spoon.Step 8:Place all the muffins so they are bottom side up and spoon over the icing so it drips down the sides and top with pistachios and some freeze dried raspberries if using. Leave for 15 minutes to set before serving.