Soul Cakes Recipe
Enjoy these Soul Cakes as a more traditional Samhain celebration food! You'll love the flavor and how they're the perfect biscuit-like foods to go with cider, ale, tea, coffee or even wine. Save the recipe today!
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Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1 tsp. salt
- 12 Tbsp. unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/4 cup sour cream or plain greek yogurt with full fat
- 1/2 cup whole milk or milk preference
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1 apple diced I used Pink Lady apples but Honey Crisp or Fuji would work well too.
- Additional milk and sugar for topping
- Additional 1/4 cup of flour for rolling out dough.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees
- Cream together sugar and butter with a hand mixer.
- Then add in sour cream, milk and vanilla extract and mix.
- Next add in baking powder and pumpkin pie spice and mix.
- Add in the flour one cup at a time and mix well. Dough will be piece-y.
- Fold in the dried cranberries and apples and then chill dough for 20 minutes.
- Roll out dough on parchment paper and use extra flour on your hands, rolling pin and parchment paper as needed. Roll about 1/2 inch thick. Maybe a little less.
- Using a cookie cutter or a biscuit cutter, cut the Soul Cakes out and place them on a cookie sheet that's lined with parchment paper.
- Cut the X in the top and decorate with dried fruit if you want to. Brush the tops with milk
- Brush the tops with milk and then bake for 12 minutes on the middle oven rack.
- Remove them from the oven and brush the tops with milk again and then sprinkle on sugar. Bake for another 11-14 minutes until the tops have started to brown a bit. Do not bake them for longer than 26 minutes total.
- Transfer to a cooling rack right away and let them cool completely. Then serve them with coffee, tea, cider, ale or even wine!