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Tea Cakes
These are perfect when toasted and slathered with butter
Recipe Category:
Baking
Makes enough for:
1
batch cakes
All Rights Reserved:
an original recipe from Lavender and Lime
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Ingredients
500
g
bread flour
plus extra for dusting
10
g
salt
60
g
fructose
5
mls
ground cinnamon
10
g
instant yeast
50
g
butter
softened and cubed
230
mls
water
divided
Vegetable oil for kneading and coating your bowl
100
g
dried currants
100
g
crystallised ginger
roughly chopped
1
egg white
beaten, to glaze
Method
Place the flour into a stand mixing bowl and add the salt, fructose and cinnamon on one side of the bowl
Add the yeast to the other side and then add the butter and 180mls of the water
Use your fingers to turn the mixture around, trying to pick up all of the flour from the sides of the bowl
Add more water, 5mls at a time, if necessary
When the dough forms, use it to clean the inside of the bowl and keep going until the bowl is clean
Use a dough hook and knead using your stand mixer on a low speed for 10 minutes
Turn out onto a lightly oiled surface and shape into a ball
Lightly oil your bowl and place the dough, seam side down, into it
Cover and leave to prove until doubled in size
Place the currants and ginger on top of the dough and mix them in by hand for a minute
Lightly flour your work surface and tip the dough out
Knead lightly to incorporate the currants and ginger
Divide the dough into 16 pieces and shape each piece into a ball
Roll each piece out using a rolling pin until 1cm thick
Place the tea cakes onto a lined baking sheet and glaze with the egg white
Cover with lightly oiled cling film and leave to prove until doubled in size
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 200° Celsius
Reglaze the tea cakes and bake for 15 minutes
Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack