Lees' 12 Jam Teacakes 220g

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Step 6 Remove biscuits from the fridge and bake for around 10minutes, or until slightly darker around the edges and allow them to cook fully. They will seem very soft when they come out the oven but the with crisp up as they cool. BBC Good Food has some bad recipes floating around their database… but where they usually shine is with traditional British foods. Their simple teacake recipe is one of the best! The recipe makes 6 tea cakes and requires yeast, fruit, spices and typical baking ingredients. You don’t need a bread maker. Mainly down to the marshmallow - quite a few own-branded ones just couldn't quite get it to be light enough. The company grew from these humble beginnings into a successful private baking company before striking it rich with their confectionery line.

These chocolate and marshmallow mouthfuls of goodness have been delighting many of us Scots for years and have become almost as iconic as Irn Bru or haggis. In fact, the company even reported this year that they made a whopping 15 million rise in tea cakes sold since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. In most of England, a teacake is a light, sweet, yeast-based bun containing dried fruits, most usually currants, sultanas or peel. It is typically split, toasted, buttered, and served with tea. It is flat and circular, with a smooth brown upper surface and a somewhat lighter underside. Although most people refer to a teacake as a cake containing fruit, in East Lancashire, certain areas of Yorkshire and Cumbria the name currant teacake is used to distinguish fruited 'cakes' from plain bread rolls. Two Scottish takeaways feature in Deliveroo top 100 worldwide roundup - including acclaimed Thai restaurant Tea cakes are often confused with hot-cross-buns (fruited buns that are popular at Easter) and tea loaves like the Faversham tea loaf, even in the UK! This is because there are numerous variations on the tea cake. Depending on where you are in England, your tea cake may be fruited, wholemeal, flavoured with hops, or even used as sandwich bread.Very carefully remove the completed teacakes from the mould – be careful of fingerprints on the glossy dome.

If you would like to make one of these moreish chocolate tea cakes at home, I recommend the recipe by Delish. It makes a coffee-flavoured marshmallow, but you could substitute this for powdered tea. Alternatively, just remove it entirely for delicious, sweet vanilla marshmallow instead. Step 5 To make the coffee marshmallows, add the egg whites, coffee powder, sugar, salt and golden syrup in a large mixing bowl, giving it a light whisk. Place the bowl over a pan of simmering water without letting the bottom touch the water and let the mixture reach 71ºC so the eggs are pasteurised, ensuring you stir/whisk so that you don't let the mixture cook and get scrambled eggs. Once it has reached this temperature, transfer to a standing mixer, or use a hand held mixer to whisk for around 7 or 8 minutes, until the marshmallow is completely cool and it has reached stiff peaks. Once it is ready, transfer to a piping bag, ready to assemble! Like Chelsea buns, Yorkshire puddings and Bath buns before them Yorkshire tea cakes lost their specific attachment to a geographical English location. While the aforementioned were no longer only associated with specific places before the 1800s, the same happened to Yorkshire tea cakes during the Victorian era. It became defined as a traditional English food. [2] Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured work surface and divide it into 12 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a ball, then flatten slightly into a bun shape using the palms of your hands. Cover the teacakes with a tea towel, and set aside to rise for 30 to 40 minutes. The recipe uses dark brown muscovado sugar, but you can substitute this for any brown sugar that you like. I prefer a 50/50 mix of light brown and dark brown soft sugar, and golden sultanas rather than a fruit mix. Don’t skip the orange syrup and orange rinds – they really make this recipe stand out. 3. Cinnamon Spiced Tea Cake Recipe Image Credit: Jessica HolmesMr Watt, an interior designer, told the Scotsman: “On the day, the cake actually got more attention than we did, but that wasn’t a bad thing. We were very happy with it.” Get your butter, sugar and eggs at the ready – it’s time for my favourite tea cake recipes! These five recipes that I have hand-selected from across the web are perfect for afternoon tea. You can bake these up in the morning (or even the day before) to have with a cup of tea in the afternoon.