Rock cake recipes
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Ingredients
- 200g Sultanas or Raisins
- 100g Butter
- 75g Brown sugar
- 200g Self Raising Flour
- 1 egg
Method
- 1. First, turn on the oven to warm (200 degrees, gas mark 6.)
- 2. Rub the 100g of Butter and 200g flour in a mixing bowl. (Mix and rub between fingers until it becomes like breadcrumbs.)
- 3. Mix in the other ingredients: 75g brown sugar, egg (minus shell.)
- 4. Line the baking tray with greasproof paper.
- 5. Make the mixture into balls, (4cm diameter) of the mix onto the tray.
- 6. Bake for around 20 minutes, (keep checking to see if they're done.)
- 7. Once done, leave them to cool until fairly hard.
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- 75g unsalted flour
- 175g self raising flour
- 1 tsp mixed spice
- 50g Tate & Lyle Light Brown Soft Sugar
- 50g dried cranberries
- 50g ready-to-eat dried apricots, chopped fine
- 1 tbsp Lyle's Golden Syrup
- 1 free range egg
- 2 tbsp milk
- 50g unsalted butter
- 100g Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Icing Sugar
Method
- 1. Preheat the oven to 180C/160Cfan/gas 4. Grease a baking sheet.
- 2. Cut the butter into small pieces and put into a bowl with the flour. Rub together with your fingertips until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs. You can also do this in a food processor.
- 3. Stir in the spice, Tate & Lyle light brown soft sugar and dried fruits and mix. Now add the Lyle’s Golden Syrup , egg and stir in enough milk to make a stiff dough. Place heaped teaspoons on the baking sheet and bake for 12 minutes until golden brown. Transfer to a cooling rack. When cold dust with icing sugar.
- 4. To make Rock cakes look like snowballs, sandwich together with butter cream. Beat the butter, Tate & Lyle icing sugar and milk together until smooth and then using a small palette knife spread a little on half of the rock cakes and place another on top. Dust with icing sugar when assembled
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Tips
Don't try to make the heaps look tidy on the baking trays otherwise they won't look rocky! Leave them in rough mounds. These are also dead easy for kids to make.
8 Comments
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Jail Bird! Mon Mar 1 2010 • Reply
Hi Khadijah - fab idea! Probably blueberries would work too! As would most berry fruits. Thanks for that.
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Khadijah Mon Mar 1 2010 • Reply
I have just made these and they are yummy! I added a teaspoon of cinnamon in to give them a bit of spice. Also re dried fruits, I am also not a big fan, esp of raisins/currants etc, but I love cranberries so I used those, and I used half the amount (50g). This recipe still tastes great with half, and you just need to find a dried fruit that you do like.
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Jail Bird! Thu Feb 4 2010 • Reply
Hi Ian - hope you enjoy! Don't eat more though because of the reduced amount of sugar!!
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ian miller Thu Feb 4 2010 • Reply
hi jailbird. just made them well there in the oven anyway, its the same recipe as the one i do but with less sugar which is a bonus as tryin to lose weight,as 4 the person who doesnt like fruit it also works with chocolate chips in it instead of fruit.
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Jail Bird! Thu Nov 19 2009 • Reply
You could do them without fruit but wouldn't be nearly so yummy! Would be more like a scone, and a bit dry. Don't you like fruit?
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Jail Bird! Mon Nov 2 2009 • Reply
Mine go in a flash! Best eaten straight from the oven (ha ha!! - that's what my lot say!)
Ingredients
- 225g self raising flour
- 100g Mixed dried fruit
- 50g caster sugar
- 1 egg
- Milk to glaze
- brown sugar to finish
- pinch salt
- 100g margarine
Method
- 1. Heat oven to 200oC/Gas 6. Greast 2 baking trays.
- 2. Mix the flour and salt together and rub in the margarine. Stir in the dried fruit and caster sugar. Mix to a stiff dough with egg and a little milk.
- 3. Place in rough heaps on the baking tray and sprinkle with the brown sugar. Bake for 10-15 minutes until golden. Cool on a wire rack.
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