Fat rascals

Fat rascals are described in historical writings as ‘Turf cakes’ and they are traditionally from Yorkshire. They were baked in a covered pan under the ashes of a peat fire, resulting in a cake resembling a flat rock cake. The famous Bettys tearoom in Yorkshire, founded by a Swiss immigrant in 1919, claims that they have been baking Fat rascals for over 30 years. They bake three types of Fat rascals and the tearoom also holds the official trademark for Fat rascals, which forbids other tearoo