Rock Cakes

Ingredients to make 12

• 225g

  Self-raising flour
• 75g

  Caster sugar
• 1 tsp

  Baking powder
• 125g

  Unsalted butter, cut into cubes
• 150g

  Dried fruit
• 1

  Egg
• 1 tbsp

  Milk
• 2 tsp

  Vanilla extract

Approximate Times

• Preparation :

  Less than 30 minutes
• Cooking :

  10 to 30 minutes

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/Fan 160°C/Gas 4. Line a baking tray with baking parchment.
2. Mix the flour, sugar and baking powder in a bowl and rub in the cubed butter until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs, then mix in the dried fruit.
3. In a clean bowl, beat the egg and milk together with the vanilla extract.
4. Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and stir with a spoon until the mixture just comes together as a thick, lumpy dough. Add a teaspoon more milk if you need it to make the mixture stick together.
5. Place golfball-sized spoons of the mixture onto the prepared baking tray. Leave space between them as they will flatten and spread out to double their size during baking.
6. Bake for 15–20 minutes, until golden-brown. Allow to cool for a couple of minutes, then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool.