Rock Cakes
A British dessert. Ready in about 41 minutes. Difficulty: medium.
- 21 minPrep (about)
- 20 minCook (about)
- 41 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- MediumDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
- 6 oz self-rising flour Shopping tip: Self-rising flour (UK: self-raising).
- 2 oz superfine sugar Shopping tip: Superfine sugar (UK: caster). Regular sugar works.
- ¾ tsp baking powder
- 3 ⅓ oz butter
- 4 oz dried fruit
- 1 egg
- 2 ¼ tsp milk
Spices & seasonings (1): vanilla extract
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Turn the oven on to 350°F plus line a baking tray with baking parchment.
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Mix the baking powder, sugar and flour in a bowl plus rub in the cubed butter till the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.
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Mix in the dried fruit.
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Beat your egg plus milk together with the vanilla extract in a clean bowl.
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Add the egg mix to the dry ingredients.
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Stir with a spoon until the mixture comes together as a thick, lumpy dough.
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Add a teaspoon more milk if you need it to make the mix stick together.
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Place golfball-sized spoons of the mix onto the prepared baking tray.
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Leave space between them they will flatten.
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Spread out.
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Do it to double their size during baking.
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Cook in the oven for 15-20 minutes, until golden-brown.
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Take it out of the oven, let it cool for 2 min then turn them out on a wire rack to cool.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.