Rock cakes
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- 10 to 30 mins
- Serve
- Makes 12
Rock cakes are a light, crumbly tea-time favourite. Eat while they are still warm from the oven. So easy to make, and lots of fun for children to join in too.
Each serving provides 214 kcal, 3g protein, 29g carbohydrates (of which 14.5g sugars), 9.5g fat (of which 6g saturates), 1g fibre and 0.3g salt.
Ingredients
- self-raising flour: 225g/8oz self-raising flour
- caster sugar: 75²µ/2½´Ç³ú caster sugar
- baking powder: 1 tsp baking powder
- butter: 125g/4½oz unsalted butter, cut into cubes
- raisins: 150g/5½oz dried fruit (raisins, sultanas or currants)
- egg: 1 free-range egg
- milk: 1 tbsp milk
- vanilla extract: 2 tsp vanilla extract
Method
Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/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 need it to make the mixture stick together.
Place spoonfuls 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. Allow to cool for a couple of minutes, then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool.
Recipe tips
The texture should be a thick, lumpy dough - don’t be tempted to add too much liquid.
