Sugar & spice rock cakes

Rock cakes

Name: Rock cakes
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Makes 10
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 200g/7oz self-raising flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 ½ tsp mixed spice; 100g/4oz butter; 85g/3oz light muscovado sugar; 100g/4oz mixed dried fruit; 1 egg beaten; 2 tbsp/30ml milk; demerara sugar or roughly crushed sugar cubes, for sprinkling

Mary Cadogan

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Makes 10

Easy

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 20 mins - 25 mins

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Our easy, traditional rock cake recipe is the ideal afternoon treat. These simple fruit buns are a great storecupboard bake that everyone will enjoy

Nut-free

Vegetarian

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What are rock cakes?

Rock cakes are a type of rustic fruit bun with a characteristic craggy, 'rock'-like appearance. They are a traditional British bake and can be traced back to the 19th century.

Ingredients

Nutrition

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200g/7oz self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 ½ tsp mixed spice
100g/4oz butter
85g/3oz light muscovado sugar
100g/4oz mixed dried fruit
1 egg

beaten
2 tbsp/30ml milk
demerara sugar

or roughly crushed sugar cubes, for sprinkling

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Nutrition: per cake

kcal211
fat9g
saturates5g
carbs29g
sugars15g
fibre1g
protein3g
salt0.5g

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line a baking sheet with baking parchment. Tip the flour, baking powder and 1 tsp spice into a bowl. Add the butter, cut into small pieces. Rub the butter into the flour until the mixture forms fine crumbs (or do this in the food processor).
step 2

Stir in the muscovado sugar and fruit, then add the egg and milk. Mix to a fairly firm dough. Spoon 10 rough blobs of the mixture onto the baking sheet, leaving room for a little spreading. Mix together the sugar and remaining mixed spice and sprinkle over the cakes. Bake for 20-25 mins until golden brown.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2012

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