welsh cakes

Well!  I have turned my oven on for the first time today.  I've had it for quite a while, but couldn't bring myself to test it out on anything less than cookies or welsh cakes.  Since the welsh cakes require cold butter instead of soft, ha, that was the easier/speedier choice for the evening.

From what I've read (all two recipes?) welsh cakes are generally baked on an open griddle, not in an oven.  But since I know my stove works and didn't know if my oven did, I switched my methodology.  Though for those that cannot bake, welsh cakes would be a great thing to be able to make, especially here in Korea, eh?  Bread (cake?) like this is a treat.  Sure, there are bakeries, but most of them bake Koreanified bread.  Not welsh cakes, ha.  I'll have to try the griddle method out before I can suggest it to my baked-goods-deprived fellow expatriates.

The cakes themselves are amazingly tender, somewhat -- flaky, maybe?  They crumble easily, but are not dry.  I flavored mine with dried cranberries, orange zest, and a faint hint of a variety of Christmas-y spices, because it's November and I'm totally in the holiday mood, ha.  I'll post the recipe I was inspired by, my own modified version, and pictures of the finished product as well.  As long as I can restrain myself from eating them until I've taken pictures?  Haha.  Had hoped to give some to my co-teacher tomorrow, but I ate my first two so quickly ... I fear for the wellbeing of the rest.