Rock Cakes were the first thing I learnt how to make at school, crunchy on the outside, soft and crumbly on the inside. This quintessential British tea-time treats get a bad rep if you ask me, you hardly ever see them offered alongside other cakes in cafes… I guess they’re just not as fashionable as their cousin, the scone.
The usual Rock Cake filling includes sultanas and a few spices but on our last day of half-term, Leila and I thought we’d experiment with a different combination: coconut and dark chocolate. Yum!
We took the basic Rock Cake Recipe from Baking Mad, a website that lets visitors search for recipes based upon the ingredients they want to use… perfect for any baking-cupboard hoarders like me. It didn’t take much to jog my memory from ye olde home-economic classes but I was glad to be reminded that I didn’t need 40-thousand ingredients to get to work!
You’ll need:
225g Plain Flour
1 pinch of Salt
2tsp Baking Powder
75g Unsalted Butter (or margerine)
75g Caster Sugar
100g Dark Chocolate (broken or chips)
30g Dessicated Coconut
1 Egg (beaten)
1 1/2Tbsp Milk
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees celsius.
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Start by sieving the flour, salt, and baking powder into a bowl
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Rub the cubed butter into the dry mixture until it resembles sand
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Add the sugar and the beaten egg
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Bash up the chocolate!
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Add the chocolate, coconut, and milk and bring together to form a thick dough
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“Dollop” onto a greased or lined baking sheet, you’ll get around 9 buns from this recipe.
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Bake in the oven at 190degrees celsius for around 15-20 minutes (check after 15 minutes!)
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Yum! Enjoy!
If you have a food processor, this recipe would take literally minutes to whizz together… my waistline is just thankful that I don’t have such kitchen gadgetry, otherwise I’d make a batch of these every week! After a cheeky inset day, Leila is back to school tomorrow… I’m dreading the school run in the morning!
Are you a fan of Rock Cakes? What’s your favourite filling?
* Baking Mad introduced me to their site and sent some chocolate chips and green icing… but we’re gonna save those for an Easter treat next month.