Welsh Cheesecakes

Ingredients

Shortcrust pastry

• 8 oz plain flour
• 4 oz unsalted butter cold from the fridge and cubed
• 1 tsp baking powder
• pinch of salt
• cold water you'll need no more than 1/4 pint

Filling

• Raspberry jam
• 2 oz plain flour
• 2 oz unsalted butter
• 2 oz caster sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp baking powder

Instructions

• 1st start on the pastry. Sieve the flour, salt and leaven into a bowl then rub within the butter till the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

• Add the chilled water atiny low quantity at a time and blend with a knife till you have got an honest dough. Roll into a ball, cowl in cling film and chill within the refrigerator whereas you create the filling.

• Cream along the butter and sugar then hammer in the egg. Fold within the sieved flour and leaven till you have got a swish cake batter.

• Roll out the pastry till around 5mm thick. employing a three in. cutter, cut rounds and press gently into a roll tin. Place atiny low quantity of jam on prime of the pastry then prime with one tsp of the cake batter. victimisation the scraps place a cross of pastry on prime of the batter.

• Bake at 200oc for ten min, or till well up and golden.