🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh Cuisine

Teisen Lap

Welsh Moist Cake

Prep Time 15 min
Servings 12
Difficulty Easy
Calories 292 kcal

A wonderfully moist, buttery fruit cake with a dense, almost pudding-like texture, a traditional Welsh bake-sale favourite.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat oven to 180C (350F). Grease and line a 20cm square tin.
  2. 2 Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
  3. 3 Beat in eggs gradually, adding a spoonful of flour if the mixture starts to curdle.
  4. 4 Fold in the remaining flour, spices, and salt. Stir in the dried fruit.
  5. 5 Add buttermilk and stir until just combined - the batter should be quite wet.
  6. 6 Pour into the tin and bake for 40-45 min until golden and a skewer comes out clean. Cool in the tin.

Did You Know?

The name Teisen Lap means "moist cake" in Welsh - "llap" meaning moist or damp, which perfectly describes its uniquely wet, dense texture.