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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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Course: Appetizer, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: Celtic, English, European, Irish
Keyword: Samhain soul cakes, Soul cakes, Soul cakes recipe
Servings: 12
Author: Rachel

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, patted dry (optional) 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, salt 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. You may beed as much as 1/4 cup extra flour depending on the moisture in your apples. Roll about 1/2 inch thick.
  • 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. Double line the cookie sheet if you are worried about browning or use a silicone baking liner.
  • Cut the X in the top and decorate with dried fruit if you want to. Brush the tops with milk. Bake for 10 minutes.
  • 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!