Rock Cakes
Ingredients
- 225 g self-rising flour 8 oz
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp mixed spice ground, optional
- 100 g butter 4 oz, soften the butter
- 75 g demerara sugar 2 oz
- 125 g mixed dried fruit 4 oz
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 tablespoon milk
Instructions
- Lightly grease the baking sheet.
- Measure flour, baking powder and mixed spice into a bowl. Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs
- Add the sugar and dried fruit and mix to a stiff dough with the egg and milk, adding a little extra milk if the dough is too dry. If using a mixer, put everything in the bowl together
- Spoon the mixture in rough mounds on the baking sheet using two teaspoons. Sprinkle with a little demerara sugar.
- Place the baking sheet in the oven and cook for about 10 minutes, turning once, until just beginning to turn golden brown.
- Carefully lift off the baking sheet and leave to cool on a wire rack.