Welsh Baker Welsh Cakes - 6 Flavor Variety Box - 24 Cakes

Crumbly, dry biscuits with a hint of sweet and a dusting of sugar, plus the sweet fruit. PERFECT, especially for NOT hot off the griddle. Well done! I ordered more shipped to my sister. ETA: Freezing them: Meh. It works of course to preserve the product, but it totally changes the texture. I did not try heating them up in the oven, might work to restore the crumblyness, but eaten out of the freezer they are not as good. FWIW. I will order again, just stick with smaller batches.

Oh, these are incredible! I'm not a fan of poppy seeds, but other than that, each flavor is so delicious!!!The cinnamon one really pulled memories out of me. My late maternal grandma & great-grandma. are from Germany & one tradition I loved as a child was "afternoon tea time" with my grandma (my great grandma was in her mid 90s so she wasn't as active that I can recall, since I lost both sides of grandparents by the time I was 7ish).Anyways.....no proper tea time can occur without a baked snack accompaniment. Every afternoon, like clock work, my grandma would call our landline to tell me the tea is ready. I walked over to her house (only 2 houses down from mine), & she'd always have a piece of buttered cinnamon-sugar toast on homemade bread ready with our tea. She always used real butter, so it was such a yummy, savory-sweet snack for tea.I still occasionally make the same toast, but it doesn't taste the same without the same butter she used (I don't even know which butter brands to try to find the original).So when I saw these.... I had a feeling it would be reminiscent of tea time with grandma, & sure enough I was thankfully correct!!!I don't even heat them up because they are good on their own cold. I'll eventually try heating each up to see how the flavor profile alters, but it truly doesn't need it for me. I understand how some may believe these to be "dry"....... for those without experience with European cake cuisine....... imagine these are typical southern biscuits, just a bit more condensed & crumbly.If you cannot eat a plain, buttered southern biscuit without gravy, then you probably won't like these cold.I do recommend cutting a small piece off one before heating it up to see what you think of the texture, but ya know, it's a griddle cake so you can only soften it up a small amount. This is not a cake batter. It is not meant to be light, fluffy, or airy.Last thing.... cranberry orange is my favorite baked goods fruit combo & this variation is no different! I would buy a whole box of just that & cinnamon lolSeriously....the last thing lol....... I hope to see a strawberry banana variation in the future, since almost everything tastes good with that fruit combo!!!Now the last, last thing...... thank you for sharing your love of griddle cakes from Wales with the world! It truly brought back missed memories of happy childhood times & that is an amazing thing to experience again.

I stumbled upon The Welsh Baker while shopping for Welsh tea and a Welsh coffee/tea cup over a year ago and decided to give these cakes a try. I'm glad I did. They have just the right amount of sweetness for me. As forewarned by the maker, they can be a little on the dry side and heating them a little helps soften them but I actually like them right out of the package. I've tried just about all of their standard flavors and a few of their one-offs and they have all been really good. I loved the Fireball Butterscotch cakes I ordered a few months ago. Unfortunately, one-offs don't hang around long but the good news is they're constantly cooking up new ones for people to enjoy. While their cakes are really good, what really hooked me was their Bara Brith scones. Those things with their warm spices taste like Christmas to me and make for a nice breakfast or late night snack. Their shortcake should probably be on the controlled substance list it is so addictive!!!! It's extremely difficult to eat just one of those sugar dusted delights and not consume the whole pack.None of this goodness is cheap but these aren't mass produced by a huge international conglomerate. It's a family owned and operated business in California. They're good folks who do it because they love it. You can go to their website, see their faces, read their stories, and know where your money went as you enjoy the tasty treats delivered to your doorstep.

The variety pack has been fun but I believe we will go for all chocolate chip next time. I love the thick texture and size. We often split one for just a very small side sweet with breakfast (they are already quite small). I would say they are like a cross between a heavy biscuit (in the North American bread-y sense) and a shortbread cookie.If you were raised on orange flavored baby aspirin, be aware there is an orange flavored one in the variety pack that will give you baby-aspirin flashbacks if you get this from orange flavored things. I enjoyed the others and our household member raised on cherry aspirin did not mind the orange one.