Real Recipes From Real Home Cooks ®

rock cakes

Recipe by
Elizabeth Winkler
Hastings

One of my mum's recipes I grew up with. These were devoured by the family when made. They don't keep well more than a couple of days but this was never a problem for us as they went the same day. These cakes are not made a lot now but were definitely very well known 30-40 years ago. In the good old days before coronavirus I used to take them into work for my colleagues and again they went really quickly.

yield 10 -12
prep time 15 Min
cook time 15 Min
method Bake

Ingredients For rock cakes

  • 240 g
    self raising flour
  • 120 g
    butter
  • 60 g
    granulated sugar
  • 120 g
    sultanas
  • 1 lg
    egg
  • 3 Tbsp
    milk
  • 30 g
    demerara sugar or golden granulated sugar
  • 1 Tbsp
    mixed spice
  • 1 Tbsp
    ground nutmeg

How To Make rock cakes

  • 1
    Put the oven on to 200C.
  • All ingredients except demerara sugar before mixing
    2
    Add all the ingredients to a mixing bowl except the demerara sugar. I leave the milk until last.
  • Mix ready to form rock cakes
    3
    Beat the mix until sticky and stiff.
  • Rock cakes ready for the oven
    4
    Spoon out the mix onto a greased baking tray (or I use baking parchment) and sprinkle on the demerara sugar (30g is probably more than needed). Depending on how large you like the cakes, you should have between 10-12 cakes.
  • Rock cakes cooling on rack
    5
    Bake at 200C for between 10-15 minutes depending on the size of the cakes. The tops should be golden brown. Cool on a rack. Beause there is a lot of loose sugar I leave them on the baking parchment.

Categories & Tags for Rock Cakes:

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT