Soul Cakes
| Serves: 15 | Course: Dessert | Category: Biscuits | Occasion: Halloween | Machine: Cooking machine | Total time (min.): 33 |
These tasty, lightly spiced biscuits are easy to make for Halloween and have an interesting history for their origin. Originally made for All Soul’s Day, a day to celebrate and commemorate the dead. The giving and receiving of soul cakes is known to be the origin of trick or treating. You can also make these biscuits for Samhain, a pagan festival to mark the start of the winter.
Ingredients
- 250g All Purpose Flour
- 100g Unsalted Butter
- 100g Golden Caster Sugar
- 2 Egg Yolks
- 1 teaspoon Allspice
- ½ teaspoon Mixed Spice
- 2 tablespoons Milk
- 1 pinch Saffron
- 50g Raisins
Tools
- Oven
- Parchment paper
- Rolling pin
- kCook Multi
- Baking sheet - 18 x 13"
- Kcook bowl
- Lightly floured surface
Method
- Pre-heat oven - 180°C
- Line a clean baking sheet with parchment paper then set aside
- Fit midi blade to kCook bowl
- Add all purpose flour, unsalted butter, golden caster sugar, egg yolk, allspice, mixed spice, milk and saffron to the kCook bowl
- Fit kCook bowl to kCook Multi
- Attach lid to kCook bowl with filler cap fitted
- Mix with filler cap fitted - 2 min, speed 8
- Then add raisins to the kCook bowl
- Mix with filler cap fitted - 30 sec, speed 6
- Transfer content of kCook bowl to lightly floured surface
- Roll out until 1 cm thick
- Cut out into rounds
- Place dough on baking sheet
- Score lightly
- Bake until light golden - 25 min, 180°C
- Serve