Rock cake recipes
Ingredients
- 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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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.
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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