Rock cakes recipe ! (in English !)
Thanks to Sarah Wells, collège A Micheneau Villefagnan, académie de Poitiers, for
her help !
Rock Cakes Recipe
Description
Chunky hard fruity buns.
Summary
- Rub margarine into flour.
- Add sugar, fruit & egg (shell removed).
- Bake.
- Takes approximately: 10 min work, 20 min cooking, 50 min total.
Ingredients
| Sultanas or raisins | 200 g |
| Margarine | 100 g |
| Moist brown sugar | 75 g |
| Self raising flour | 200 g |
| Egg (chicken) | 1 |
Equipment
Oven. Mixing bowl. Knife to mix with. Scales (or just estimate). Baking sheet. Greaseproof paper.
Detailed Instructions
- Turn on oven to warm up to 200°C (Gas Mark 6).
- Rub the 100 g of margarine into the 200 g of flour in mixing bowl (i.e. repeatedly pick up handfuls of the mix & use thumbs to smear it out across fingers) until the mix looks like breadcrumbs.
- Wash hands (before everything else in the kitchen gets greasy).
- Mix in all the other ingredients (75 g moist brown sugar, 200 g self raising flour & an egg (minus shell)).
- Line baking tray with greaseproof paper.
- Put balls (about 4 cm diameter) of the mix on the tray.
- Bake 15 to 25 min (ready when inside no longer looks raw & damp &/or a skewer pushed into a cake does not come out with stuck on dough).
- Allow to cool until hard.