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Rock Cakes

Name: Rock Cakes
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: british
Ingredients: 225 g Self-raising Flour; 75 g Caster Sugar; 1 tsp Baking Powder; 125 g Butter; 150 g Dried Fruit; 1 Eggs; 1 tbs Milk; 2 tsp Vanilla Extract

A classic British dessert from TheMealDB community kitchen — straightforward technique, real ingredients.

Updated April 25, 2026

min total

servings

1075

cal / serving

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Origin

Categorized as British Dessert in TheMealDB. Original source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/rock_cakes_03094

Ingredients

225 gSelf-raising Flour
75 gCaster Sugar
1 tspBaking Powder
125 gButter
150 gDried Fruit
1Eggs
1 tbsMilk
2 tspVanilla Extract

Instructions

01
Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a baking tray with baking parchment.
02
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.
03
In a clean bowl, beat the egg and milk together with the vanilla extract.
04
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 really need it to make the mixture stick together.
05
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.
06
Bake for 15-20 minutes, until golden-brown. Remove from the oven, allow to cool for a couple of minutes then turn them out onto a wire rack to cool.