Rock Cakes

Rock Cakes

Area: British

Category: Dessert

Ingredients

IngredientsMeasure
Self-raising Flour225g
Caster Sugar75g
Baking Powder1 tsp
Butter125g
Dried Fruit150g
Eggs1
Milk1 tbs
Vanilla Extract2 tsp

Instruction

  • Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a baking tray with baking parchment
  • Mix the flour, sugar and baking powder in a bowl and rub in the cubed butter until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs, then mix in the dried fruit
  • In a clean bowl, beat the egg and milk together with the vanilla extract
  • Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and stir with a spoon until the mixture just comes together as a thick, lumpy dough
  • Add a teaspoon more milk if you really need it to make the mixture stick together
  • Place golfball-sized spoons of the mixture onto the prepared baking tray
  • Leave space between them as they will flatten and spread out to double their size during baking
  • Bake for 15-20 minutes, until golden-brown
  • Remove from the oven, allow to cool for a couple of minutes then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool