Oxfordshire, England

Banbury cakes

Name: Banbury cakes
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 500 g chilled puff pastry; 2 tbsp butter; 1/4 cup brown sugar; 1 cup raisins or currants raisins; 1/4 cup chopped candied peel (tutti frutti or candied orange peel); 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder; 1/4 tsp nutmeg; Lemon, zest of 1; 1 white beaten egg white; 2 tbsp for sprinkling sugar

Flaky pastry ovals packed with spiced fruit and a crackly sugar top. Eccles cakes' fancier cousin.

50 minTime

5 gProtein each

mildSpice

From the town of Banbury2 chapters · 1 min read

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

391kcal

5 gprotein

2 gfibre

50minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Puff pastry500 g, chilled

Butter2 tbsp

Brown sugar¼ cup

Raisins1 cup, raisins or currants

Candied peel (tutti frutti or candied orange peel)¼ cup, chopped

Cinnamon powder½ tsp

Nutmeg¼ tsp

Lemonzest of 1

Egg white1 white, beaten

Sugar2 tbsp, for sprinkling

Method

5 steps

1Finely grate the lemon zest. Melt the butter in a small pan on low heat, take it off the heat and stir in the brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins, candied peel and zest. Leave to cool completely.
2Heat the oven to 200°C. Roll the pastry 3 mm thick and cut 10 rounds about 10 cm wide.
3Put a spoon of filling in each round, gather the edges over it and pinch to seal.
4Turn seam side down and roll gently into ovals. Cut three slits on top.
5Brush with the beaten egg white, sprinkle with the sugar and bake 18 to 20 minutes.

Serve it like this

Serve warm on a board, two per person, with a wedge of sharp cheddar or a cup of hot tea.

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