Brown Sugar & Spice Rock Buns

Name: Brown Sugar & Spice Rock Buns
Yield: Makes 12
Ingredients: 125 g butter, cold and cut into cubes; seeds of ½ vanilla pod or 1 tsp vanilla extract; 80 g soft light brown sugar, plus extra for sprinkling over the top; 2 tsp baking powder; 150 g raisins or dried cranberries or mixed dried fruit, chopped; 250 g plain flour; 1 egg white; 1 tsp mixed spice; 2 eggs

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake

By Lorraine Pascale

Published 2017

About

Is this one of the first things you ever baked? The rock bun seems rooted in many people’s baking memories. Use whichever dried fruit you like – you could even soak the dried fruit in alcohol or apple juice overnight to add some extra flavour and help to keep them nice and moist.

Ingredients

250 g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp

Cake
Dessert
Spicy
Vegetarian
Baking

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C (fan 160°C/350°F/gas 4) and line two baking sheets with baking parchment.

Put the flour, baking powder, mixed spice and butter into a bowl. Using your thumb and your fingers, pick up bits of the mixture, rub it together and then let it f