To celebrate 'Eat Welsh Week' in Brussels, Plaid MEP Jill Evans is sending a pack of home made traditional Welsh cakes to every European Commissioner as well as to the President of the European Parliament.

Eat Welsh Week is a National Farmers Union initiative to promote quality traditional Welsh produce and encourage people to buy more food produced in Wales. The MEP hopes the initiative will raise the profile of Welsh produce in Europe.

Welsh cakes or 'picau ar y mān' are made from flour, butter, eggs, sugar and raisins and slow cooked on a traditional Welsh bakestone or 'mān'.

Photo: MEP Jill Evans presents a box of home made Welsh cakes to Alyn Smith MEP, a member of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee to mark 'Eat Welsh Week', at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

The twenty seven European Commissioners as well as the President of the European Parliament will receive a specially made selection of Welsh cakes produced by Maddocks Cakes from Wales, a cottage industry based in Southgate, Gower, Wales.

The Plaid MEP said:

"We produce a wonderful selection of traditional, fresh produce in Wales and I'm delighted to help promote Welsh food in Europe. These Welsh cakes were traditionally produced by husband and wife team Anthony and Pat Maddocks from their small business which they run from their home in Southgate, Gower.

"I'm sure that the European Commissioners will enjoy their Welsh cakes and I hope this will encourage them and others to buy more Welsh produce."

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For more information on the Welsh Cakes see www.cakesfromwales.com.