Chocolate and Ginger Rock Cakes

Name: Chocolate and Ginger Rock Cakes
Yield: Makes 8
Ingredients: 100 g (3½ oz/scant ½ cup) Vegan Butter or vegan spread; 1–2 tbsp water; 1 tsp ground ginger; 75 g (2½ oz/generous ⅓ cup) caster (superfine) sugar; 50 g (1¾ oz/⅓ cup) vegan dark chocolate chips, or chopped dark chocolate; 75 g (2¾ oz) crystallised ginger, roughly chopped; 200 g (7 oz/1½ cups) self-raising flour

Preparation info

Makes
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Rose Elliot's Complete Vegan

By Rose Elliot

Published 2019

About

My mother used to rustle up rock cakes and pop them into the Aga literally as visitors walked up the garden. They made the house smell so welcoming and were delicious eaten warm from the oven.

Ingredients

200 g (7 oz/1½ cups) self-raising flour
1

Cake
Vegan

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6 and line a baking sheet with baking parchment.

Sift the flour and ground ginger into a large bowl or electric mixer, then add the vegan spread. Rub the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs, or, if usi