Irish Soda Bread Cookies in a Pressure Cooker
These Irish Soda Bread Cookies, made in a pressure cooker, are soft, chewy, and filled with the flavors of caraway seeds and raisins.
Equipment
- 1 Pressure cooker with trivet
Ingredients
Ingredients
- ¾ cup raisins
- 1 cup water for soaking
- 1¾ cup flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon caraway seed
- ½ cup shortening
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg large
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar for glaze
- 2 tablespoon milk for glaze
- ½ teaspoon lemon extract for glaze
Instructions
Instructions
- Soak the raisins in water for 30 minutes.
- Mix flour, baking soda, and caraway seeds together.
- Cream shortening and granulated sugar until fluffy.
- Beat in egg and vanilla extract.
- Fold in dry ingredients and drained raisins to make dough.
- Drop spoonfuls of dough onto a greased trivet inside the pressure cooker.
- Cook in pressure cooker and do a quick release once done.
- Let cool slightly before applying glaze.
- Mix confectioners' sugar, milk, and lemon extract for the glaze, then drizzle over cookies.
Notes
For a softer texture, make sure raisins are well soaked and handle the dough gently without overmixing.