Soul cakes

Serves: 18

Prep time: 20 minutes

Cook time: 20 minutes

Total time: 40 minutes

Dietary: contains dairy

Meal type:

Misc: https://www.coeurdexocolat.com/why-we-celebrate-halloween-with-sweets-and-chocolate

Occasion: Halloween

Author: dghchocolatier

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Ingredients

  • 175 g butter, room temperature
  • 175 g Fairtrade white granulated sugar
  • 3 organic egg yolks, medium size
  • 450 g organic plain flour
  • 2 tsp mixed spice
  • 70 g raisins
  • 6-7 tbsp full fat milk
  • 2 tbsp Fairtrade icing sugar for dusting (optional)

Method

Preheat the oven to 190 C.

Put the  butter and sugar into large bowl, and using a hand mixer or stand mixer, cream the butter with sugar.

Add in the egg yolks and mix throughly again.

Sieve in the flour into the egg, butter, and sugar mixture.

Sieve in the spices on top of the flour, and mix the ingredients together with a spatula.

Gradually add in the milk, mixing with the spatula until it comes together to form a dough.

Transfer the dough to a surface, dusted with flour.

Knead the dough with your hands until you have a smooth dough.

knead the raisins into the dough.

Roll the out dough with a rolling pin about 0.6 cm thick.

Cut the round shape with a scone/cookie cutter.

Transfer the cakes to a baking tray, lined with parchment paper. Leave a little space between the cookies so they don't stick to each other.

Cut a cross on top of each cake.

Bake 15-20 minutes until golden.

Allow the cakes to cool for 10 minutes, before dusting with icing sugar.

Soul cakes will keep up to 4 days in airtight container at room temperature.