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Soul Cakes

Soul Cake

Traditionally baked for Halloween, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day to honor the dead, a soul cake, also called a soulmass-cake, is a little circular cake with sweet spices that looks and feels very much like a shortbread cookie.
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Equipment

  • 2 Mixing Bowls
  • 1 Hand Mixer or Kitchen Aid optional
  • 1 Cookie Cutter or Biscuit Cutter optional
  • 1 Parchment Paper
  • 1 Baking Sheet

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup Butter Room Temp
  • 2 cups Flour
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1/4 tsp Nutmeg (and/or Cardamom)
  • 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp ginger
  • 1/2 tsp Allspice
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar
  • 3 tbsp Milk
  • 1/4 cup Dried Cranberries optional
  • 1 tbsp Powdered Sugar Topping

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees
  • Cut butter into small pieces and mix with flour using a mixer or fork
  • Blend in sugar, vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice (and/or cardamom)
  • Beat eggs, milk, and vinegar in a separate bowl
  • Combine wet and dry ingredients into one bowl and mix together
  • Fold in dried cranberries
  • Kneed thoroughly by hand or with a Kitchen Aid
  • With a cookie cutter, biscuit cutter, or by hand make biscuit sized Soul Cakes and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
  • Cut the X or star into the top and brush with milk and bake for 12 minutes on the middle rack
  • Remove from oven, brush with milk again, and sprinkle powdered sugar on the tops.
  • Bake for 10 more minutes or until the tops have started to brown a little
  • Transfer to a cooling rack, let them cool completely. serve to your little or big monsters.