Old-Fashioned Rock Cakes

Name: Old-Fashioned Rock Cakes
Yield: Makes 10 to 12 rock cakes
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon mixed spice; 1 large egg, beaten; 50 g caster sugar; Milk to mix; 100 g butter; 225 g self-raising flour; 50 g mixed citrus peel; 100 g dried mixed fruit; pinch of salt

Great Britain

Preparation info

Makes
10 to 12
rock cakes

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Lavender & Lovage

By Karen Burns-Booth

Published 2019

About

Delicious little lightly spiced and fruited buns which are a cross between a scone and cake and are an essential treat for the tea-time table. The “Rock” part of the name should only apply to the appearance and not the texture and it’s probably where these little bakes got their name from.

Ingredients

225 g self-raising flour
pinch of salt
100 g

Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Pre-heat oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas mark 6. Grease 2 baking trays.
Mix the flour and salt together and then rub in the butter with your fingertips until it resembles sand.
Stir in the dried fruit, citrus peel, sugar and mixed sp