Rock Cakes

Category: 

Dessert

Area: 

British

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Ingredients

  • Self-raising Flour  -  225g
  • Caster Sugar  -  75g
  • Baking Powder  -  1 tsp
  • Butter  -  125g
  • Dried Fruit  -  150g
  • Eggs  -  1
  • Milk  -  1 tbs
  • Vanilla Extract  -  2 tsp

Instructions

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.