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October 24, 2014 easy

Soul cakes

 

 

Mildly sweet, slightly spicy, easy to bake butter cookies. These are topped with currants in the shape of a cross. Soul cakes are traditionally made on Halloween (two days before All Soul's Day). This recipe is adapted from lavenderandlovage.com.

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Cook Time 1 hour hr
Total Time 1 hour hr
Course Snack
Cuisine english
Servings 10 serving

Ingredients
  

  • 175 grams Unsalted butter
  • 160 grams Sugar Granulated
  • 3 numbers Egg yolk
  • 450 grams All purpose flour
  • 100 grams cranberry / Currant Dried
  • ⅓ - ½ cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon mixed spice

Instructions
 

  • Pre-heat oven to 375F.
  • Make sure that butter is in room temperature. Cut butter into cubes so that it would be easy to beat it. Using electric/stand mixer, beat butter in large bowl until fluffy.
  • Powder sugar and beat until blended.
  • Beat in egg yolks.
  • Sift the flour into another bowl with the mixed spice and then add them part by part to the above mixture. Mix well after each addition.
  • Add enough milk to make it a soft dough.
  • Roll the dough out and cut out little cakes with a biscuit cutter. Set them on baking sheet. You can space them closely, they do not spread.
  • Mark each cake with a cross and decorate dried cranberry / currant on the cross.
  • Bake it for 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.
  • Cool on a wire rack and the store in an airtight tin for up to 5 days.
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