Nuts about rock cakes
35 min
I felt it was time for a revival! Rock cakes are awesome, right? You don’t need anything on them or with them, they stand alone as a delicious little cake, full of flavour and, as my memory serves me, satisfying. Traditional recipes has mixed spices and mixed fruit & peel. My own version has just raisins, a small amount of nutmeg, a good dose of cinnamon, some cherries and my own unique addition, a sprinkling of mixed chopped nuts to give them a bit of edge. They’re great, don’t stray too far from tradition and are easy to make.
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Ingredients
Makes: 12 rock cakes
- 350g plain flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 175g light brown soft sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 75g raisins
- 12 glace cherries, chopped
- 30g chopped mixed nuts
- 175g Stork® margarine or unsalted butter
- 1 large egg
- 1 to 2 tablespoons milk, as needed
- demerara sugar to sprinkle
Method
Prep:15min ›
Cook:20min ›
Ready in:35min
- Preheat oven to 190 C / Gas 5. Line a baking tray with non stick greaseproof paper.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl. Add in the sugar, nutmeg and cinnamon and stir thoroughly ensuring that any lumps of sugar are broken up.
- Add the egg and stir. This will bind the ingredients and start to form a stiff mixture. You will need to add 1 tablespoon of milk. You’ll need to judge whether you need to add a second. If it’s too stiff you won’t be able to “fork” it onto the baking sheet so let that be your guide.
- Get a good forkful of the mixture and “plonk” it onto the baking tray, spacing them out. Allow about 3 to 4cm between each one. You should be able to get 12 rock cakes out of this mixture. You don’t need uniformity of shape, a spikey mound is fine. Sprinkle a little demerara sugar on each to give a crunchy topping.
- Bake in the centre of your oven until golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove and transfer to wire rack to cool completely.
Tip
These will keep in a cake tin for 2 to 3 days. They won’t last that long!
