My friend Eironwy suggested that I try the Welsh Cakes made by J & L Occasional Cakes in Swansea. “They are as good as homemade”, she said. And Eironwy was right. For those of you who have never had a Welsh Cake, I will attempt to describe them. I think they are the perfect treat to have with your afternoon cup of tea or coffee. I would say that they are cousins to a scone. The main differences are that instead of baking them in an oven, they are traditionally cooked on a baking stone or griddle. This gives them a golden brown outer crust but the inside is lovely and soft. You use less milk in the batter and Welsh Cakes are thinner than scones.
J & L was started by two Friends, Jacqui and Liz, with a passion for baking. They started by making celebration cakes for all occasions and Welsh Cakes as favours for weddings. Their Welsh Cakes proved to be so popular that they decided to launch their ‘Welsh Cakes by Post’ service at the Gorseinon Food Festival in 2012. Their Welsh Cakes are packaged so that they fit through a letterbox so you don’t even have to be home for the delivery!
J & L make traditional Welsh Cakes and some with some swagger! All of their Welsh Cakes are cooked by the traditional method on co-owners Liz’s grandmother’s bake stone using Welsh ingredients, including Welsh butter and local free range eggs. I tried their traditional Welsh Cakes as well as the butterscotch and fudge, the coconut and milk chocolate, and also their chocolate and orange. Their Welsh Cakes are beautifully golden brown on the outside, have a wonderful crumb and lovely flavour. I highly recommend them.
J & L have kindly offered to give 1 box of 18 Welsh Cakes away to one lucky reader. So we are holding a giveaway! To enter, all you need to do is suggest a new flavour for their Welsh Cakes. Full details are below.
COMPETITION
The nice people at J & L Occasional Cakes have promised a box of 18 Welsh Cakes to give away to the reader of this blog, who comes up with what they consider to be the best suggestion for a new Welsh Cake flavour.
HOW TO ENTER
Simply leave a comment below, telling us what flavour of Welsh Cakes you would like J & L to create next.
RULES & DETAILS
- The deadline for entries is 6.00pm GMT Sunday 27th October 2013.
- The competition is open to U.K. residents only, sorry.
- The winners will be selected from all valid entries.
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- The prize is one pack of 18 Traditional Welsh Cakes, as shown above, and includes free delivery anywhere in the UK.
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J & L Occasional Cakes
Gorseinon
Swansea
Tel: 077196306976Tel: 07718316958
E: jloccasionalcakes@gmail.comy
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Apple, walnut & stilton.
Date & Walnut
Amaretto and Orange Zest
Ginger and orange would be nice
Cheese.
Pecan nuts & Caramel
peanut butter welsh cakes
Cranberry with white chocolate
Sorry Lynsey we already do White Chocolate + Cranberry checkout our web site http://www.jloccasionalcakes.co.uk
Cinnamon and apple
Date and sultana.
Cranberries and pecan nuts – very Christmassy!
Cinnamon would be lovely.
Pecan nuts and Caramel…Please
Orange and cardamom
Lemon and lime
GOLDEN SYRUP
my suggestion for a new flavour would be;
lavender and honey
Coffee and walnut
White Chocolate and Hazelnut
Rum and raisin 🙂
Just love my plain my aunty in Wales use to make these for me when a child
Hi Claire. Check out our website. You can order homemade welshcakes just like mamgu’s x
Chocolate orange 🙂
Hi We already do Chocolate + Orange check out our Web site http://www.jloccasionalcakes.co.uk
How about Honeycomb?
cinnamon and sultana
Ginger and raisin
Cakes by post – My favorite
I would love chilli and chocolate
wild fig and vanilla
Hmmm, I’d love to try rosemary and lemon Welsh cakes!
rum and raisin
Cranberry and white chocolate
Cherry and almond
Chocolate chip and raisin
Welsh cakes are lovely – I make White Chocolate and dried cranberry ones at Christmas rather than mince pies and they are amazing.
Sultana and Lemom
Blueberry and apple.
Cherry
Ginger
I’d love to try cinnamon, honey and raison 🙂
raspberry and almond
chocolate
New flavour blueberry.
I would like to try the chocolate and orange, sounds yummy.
Hi Linda They are very yummy and very popular. Check out our website for our other flavours
APPLE AND BLUEBERRY
Lemon and sultana
lemon flavor
Fig and date 🙂
white chocolate and cranberry! simply scrummy x
Leek! Ok just joking – my best friend is Welsh and would kill me for that one! How about cream cheese and Maple syrup
Lemon and ginger
Hmmm, how about gooseberry and rosemary (have made a crumble with this and it works really well!)
Cheese and Port
Pecan & Maple Syrup
Chocolate and Mint
apple & cheddar
A savory option would be good – cheese and black pepper maybe
RASPBERRY & ALMOND
Cherry and Amaretto
Coriander and lime would be light and tangy.
Cinnamon and chocolate chip. Mmmmmmmm lovely. Xx
White Chocolate, Raisin and Cranberry
Apple and blackberry
How about spicy fig?
Oooh, date and walnut!
APPLE AND CINNAMON My favourite combination.
Whilst I would love to try some of these amazing variations, I love the originals ones more. Just the smell of them reminds me of summers with my grandmother as she used to make them for me.
Hi Sarah. I know what you mean. The smell just takes me way back. Check out our website for other flavour too…all by post
I think rhubarb and chocolate sounds fabulous 🙂
Apricot and Sultana
Cinnamon and honey x
Rhubarb and Custard
Original please!
Orange and cranberry… Perfect for Christmas.
christmas mince pie flavour
Original why try to improve on perfection!!
pumpkin and mixed spices would be lovely
chocolate chips & orange
Hi Sarah we already do Chocolate + Orange check out our web site. Regards JL
Hi Sarah, We already do Chocolate + Orange check out our web site http://www.jloccasionalcakes.co.uk
Lemon juice and zest to make them zingy
raspberry & chocolate chip
banana and walnut
rhubarb and strawberry
Lemon & Strawberry – I love Welsh cakes, I do!
My gran puts jam in them
Ginger
Apple and walnut sounds divine.
chocolate and orange
Hi Victoria, WE already do Chocolate + Orange have another go. Check out our web site http://www.jloccasionalcakes.co.uk
apple and blackberry with cinnamon
blueberry and lemon
Apple and nutmeg.
peanut butter and chocolate spread
white chocolate and rum
Cinnamon & Apple.or Banana & Apple
Cinnamon, cranberry and orange zest.
almond
I love making cherry and almond scones, so this would be a perfect flavour for me.
chocolate
Hi Carol, Its only one entry – we do Traditional, Butterscoth + Fudge, Coconut + Milk Choclate, Chocolate + Orange and Cranberry + White Chocolate at the moment which of your flavour suggestions do you want to put through ? Checkout our web site http://www.jloccasionalcakes.co.uk. Good Luck Regards JL
peanut
lemon
chocolate and orange
apple
marmalade
cherry
syrup
bacon
cheese and onion
rasberry
banana
choc chip
raisin
melon
pineapple
peach
oat
mixed fruit
mixed spice for xmas
spice mixed for xmas
carrot
pear
Chocolate Orange would be perfect for christmas!
Hi Check out our website. We do Chocolate and orange. They are very popular. x
butter split
cream split
blue berry
Apple and walnuts
Treacle toffee, walnut and sunflower seeds
Toffee and raisin
star anise orange and cranberry
cinnamon and apple
Apple and maple syrup 🙂
Cardamon and orange zest
Chocolate Cherry
welsh cheese and leek would make a tasty savoury version
Bacon & maple syrup
Bannana and custard
Apple and Cinnamon
For a Christmassy flavour, how about brandy butter flavoured?
Orange and Cinnamon ones were my most recent effort, they were yummy but you cannot beat a welsh cake made by someone who knows what they are doing (unlike me)
Glad you had a go making welshcakes. I’m sure they were great. Maybe we should organise a welshcake making workshop!
white chocolate and raspberry
Lemon
Banana
Maple pecan
cinnamon and cranberry
Honey & Cinnamon
Walnut and maple syrup
Zesty orange and cinnamon flavour would be perfect for Christmas 🙂
Dark Chocolate & Pistachio
Chocolate chip and hazelnuts
Cherry and almond
Coffee and Pecan would be amazing
cinnamon & apple
Lemon and sunflower seed
coconut and milk chocolate are my fav
Check out our website. We do Coconut and chocolate. They are the most popular flavour after traditional.
Carp and Sand-Lizard
Well, I’ve tried welsh cakes with raspberry jam in the middle before and they were AMAZING, so I’d like to see them come in all kinds of fruity flavours! Blackcurrant would be amazing!
rhubarb and ginger!
Ginger and Dark Chocolate
I would love to try a coconut and lime welsh cake
Thanks for your interest. We do coconut and chocolate which are very popular. Lime would be interesting.
Strawberry and Chocolate yum yum
dried fig and dried blueberry
Lemon and white chocolate chip
I wonder if a Bara Brith Welsh Cake would work? I love the idea of a fusion of two of Wales most famous foods.
Basically a Welsh Cake with dried fruit and orange zest, dipped in tea then cooked.
I would love to try that.
Honey and Lemon
we want splits………….lemon curd
splits lemon curd
toffee
dark chocolate chip
cranberry and white chocolate wowza!
Hi K, We already do Coconut + Chocolate check out our web site http://www.jloccasionalcakes.co.uk and have another go. Regards JL
Bannoffee
Mocha
I would like to see apple and cinnamon Welsh Cakes as a new flavour
Orange and Ginger please
lemon and walnut
I’m all for a savory flavour so Stilton and Walnut
Cinammon and orange 🙂
Cranberry with nuts or white choc
Honey, almond, chocolate & vanilla
maple bacon yum yum
Cinnamon and Chocolate!
Chocolate 🙂
Goat’s Cheese and Sun Dried Tomato
Zingy Lemon and Vanilla
Chocolate and coconut
Hi Liz, we already do Coconut + Chocolate have another go and checkout our web site http://www.jloccasionalcakes.co.uk
Caramelized Onion and crispy bacon.
curry x
date and maple syrup
cinnemon and sultana.
Rhubarb and Ginger
Orange zest and apricot would be delicious x
PECAN AND SULTANA
Goats cheese and caramelised onion
apple and cinnamon
Welsh cheese and chives as I prefer savoury.
either Banoffee Pie, or Caramel with white chocolate 🙂
marzipan
Liquorice and pernod
Chocolate and ginger
strawberry and white chocolate
Hazelnut and Choc
Lemon verbina and cranberry
Bacon and Caramel is winning combination!
quince and honey
Coconut
passionfruit sounds good to me xx
Blackberry
I would love to see rose and white chocolate welshcakes, yum
banana and cinnamon 🙂
How about something Christmassy like cinnamon and orange peel?
Honey and walnut
White Chocolate and Strawberry 🙂
Apple,Cinnamon & walnut
lemon and lime and ginger
welsh stilton apple and pickle
Mince pie – just in time for Christmas!
Blueberry and white chocolate
cheese and onion
corned beef
tined corned beef
Swansea seaweed
seaweed from swansea
potato
garlic
salmon
multi grain
wholemeal
cranberry
tin corned beef
spam
butter
Ginger and orange would be nice
Rasberry cheesecake
Pendryn Whisky and ginger ( I love traditional Welsh Cakes though )
Apple and Cinnamon
honeycomb
Carrot, spice, (cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg) and walnut
How about Citrus flavour? Orange,Lemon,Lime & Grapefruit.
I bet custard and apple would be yummy.
cranberry, special for Christmas.
I don’t think you’ll beat original though!
cinnamon, cranberry and white chocolate yummy
Chocolate orange
something citrussy, lemon or orange perhaps
Juicy Apricot & Saltana Flavour
raspberry and white chocolate
Date and walnut………mmmmmmmmmmmmm
mmm golden syrup ones 🙂
Would it be possible to do a boozy welsh cake?
There is Welsh vodka and Welsh gin available – and maybe a Baileys one!!! 😉
chocolate orange
toffee
Cinnamon and orange
orange and almond
Welsh honey and almond.
Cheddar & marmite
almond
Apricot and Almond
Mmmm Vanillla and Butterscotch
coffee and walnut
Cherry and almond
salted caramel
Caramel, cinnamon and apple! With love, Faye xx
Rum and Raisin please
Salted caramel
banana and toffee
Pear, pecan and cinnamon
Pistachio
Wye Valley Lavender
Date and Walnut 🙂
Lavender and Earl Gray
An apple crumble flavour would work really well 🙂
Apple and Cinnamon 🙂
I absolutely adore Welsh Cakes, my gran used to make them for me all the time! I would love to see a chocolate chip Welsh Cake, to satisfy the chocoholic in me!
Cheese a strong flavour cheese
Orange
apple , cinnamon and raison
Apple & Cinnamon
Cherry and Amaretto
lemon and ginger
HAVE TO BE CHEESE AND SULTANAS
apple and cranberry
Peanut butter
In Turkey we used to have Cinnamon Sugar with pancakes for breakfast.
For a new welshcake flavour, apple & sultanna and instead of them being sprinkled with ordinary sugar after cooking, would use cinnamon sugar.
I think coconut would be tasty.
Spiced apple and cinnamon – yum for Xmas!
Traditionally welsh cakes should be leek or daffodil flavour.
I’d like to try Mint flavoured welshcakes.
Ones with nuts in like walnuts, hazelnuts or pecans would be delicious and add a nice crunch
lemon and chocolate
nutmeg
sherry
port and stilton
mulled wine
champagne
coffee
malt
sugar and spice
grape
sweet potato
dundee
topping of dundee
cheese and leek
Date and walnut
leek and chedder
split of leek and cheese
apricot
split of choc buttons
butter iceing
pink iceing
white icing
red white blue stripe icing
hundreds and thousands topping
Wales wrote in red icing on top
coconut
split with chocolate in the middle
icing of chocolate
Caerphilly Cheese and Penderyn Whisky
Welsh wild honey with a dash of Welsh whisky