How to make a soul cake:

Ingredients 

3/4 cup butter 

3/4 cup caster/superfine sugar  

4 cups plain flour, sifted  

3 egg yolks 

1 teaspoon mixed spice 

1 teaspoon allspice 

3 tablespoons currants 

a little milk

Method

• Cream the butter and sugar together until pale in colour and fluffy in texture. 

• Beat in the egg yolks. 

• Fold in the sifted flour and spices.
   

• Stir in the currants.
   

• Add enough milk to make a soft dough.
   

• Form into flat cakes and mark each top with a cross.
   

• Bake on a well-greased baking tray in a hot oven until golden.