{"id":9991,"date":"2026-03-01T00:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/?p=9991"},"modified":"2026-03-01T00:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:49:58","slug":"welsh-cakes-for-st-davids-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/welsh-cakes-for-st-davids-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Cakes for St. David’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Your Convivio Book of Days calendar for March will be late (we’ve been wrapped up in Lake Worth’s Midnight Sun Festival<\/strong><\/a> all weekend and we will still be there today, this First of March… and we’d love it if you came to see us, if you’re local, on this final day of this festival of Finnish & Scandinavian culture: it’s located at Bryant Park, where Lake Avenue meets the Lake Worth Lagoon, and the festival runs from 11 AM to 5 PM today). But as it is the First of March, and since the First of March each year brings St. David\u2019s Day, sacred to Wales, I thought perhaps you’d like to make a batch of Welsh Cakes. Here\u2019s our recipe. Serve the cakes with strong tea with milk and sugar:<\/p>\n

W E L S H \u00a0 C A K E S<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not uncommon to find recipes for Welsh Cakes that call for regular granulated sugar, butter, and nutmeg, but the traditional recipe will add lard to the mix, use caster sugar in place of the regular sugar, and will be flavored with the more mysterious flavor of mace. If you want the best Welsh Cakes, stick to the traditional version. If you can\u2019t find caster sugar, make your own: pulse regular granulated sugar in a blender until very fine. Do not use powdered confectioners\u2019 sugar, which has added corn starch. <\/em><\/p>\n

3 cups all purpose flour
\n\u00bd cup caster sugar
\n1 \u00bd teaspoons baking powder
\n1 teaspoon ground mace
\n\u00bd teaspoon cinnamon
\n\u00bd teaspoon salt
\n6 tablespoons lard
\n6 tablespoons butter
\n\u00be cup dried currants
\n2 eggs, beaten lightly
\n3 to 4 tablespoons milk
\ngranulated sugar<\/p>\n

Whisk together the flour, caster sugar, baking powder, mace, cinnamon, and salt in a mixing bowl, then work in the butter and lard with your fingers until the mixture has the texture of course crumbs. It\u2019s ok if some larger chunks of butter remain. Mix in the currants. Add the beaten egg, working it into the mixture, adding just enough milk to form a soft dough that is not too sticky. Wrap; chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes or until you are ready to make the cakes.<\/p>\n

Turn the dough out onto a floured board and roll to a thickness of about \u00bc\u201d. Using a biscuit cutter (scalloped, if you have one), cut into rounds. Gather up any remnants to roll out again and cut more cakes.<\/p>\n

Heat a lightly buttered skillet (cast iron works great) over low to medium heat, cooking the cakes until each side is lightly browned (about 3 to 4 minutes\u2026 if they\u2019re cooking quicker than that, lower the heat). Let the cakes cool for a minute or two, then set each in a bowl of granulated sugar, allowing sugar to coat both sides and the edges. Best served warm, split, with butter and jam, or, for a more savory treat, with cheese and leeks, at a table set with a small vase of daffodils.<\/p>\n

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Your Convivio Book of Days calendar for March will be late (we’ve been wrapped up in Lake Worth’s Midnight Sun Festival all weekend and we will still be there today, this First of March… and we’d love it if you came to see us, if you’re local, on this final day of this festival of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9995,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions\/9995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}