Rock Cakes

Dessert · British classic.

Ingredients

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

Method

1. Preheat the oven — Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a baking tray with baking parchment.
2. Mix together — 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.
3. Continue cooking — In a clean bowl, beat the egg and milk together with the vanilla extract.
4. Mix together — Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and stir with a spoon until the mixture just comes together as a thick, lumpy dough.
5. Mix together — Add a teaspoon more milk if you really need it to make the mixture stick together.
6. Mix together — Place golfball-sized spoons of the mixture onto the prepared baking tray.
7. Continue cooking — Leave space between them as they will flatten and spread out to double their size during baking.
8. Bake — 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.

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