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Snowball Rock Cakes

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Delicious, light and fluffy, these festive rock cakes are as mouthwatering as they are pretty.

Ingredients

  • 75g unsalted butter
  • 175g self raising flour
  • 1 tsp mixed spice
  • 50g Tate & Lyle Light Brown Soft Sugar
  • 50g dried cranberries
  • 50g ready to eat apricots, chopped into small pieces
  • 1 tbsp Lyle’s Golden Syrup
  • 1 large free-range egg
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • 50g unsalted butter, softened
  • 100g Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Icing sugar
  • 2 tsp milk

Method


Makes approx 24 Preparation time 15 minutes Cooking time: 12 minutes

  1. Preheat the oven to 180C/160Cfan/gas 4.Grease a baking sheet.
  2. Cut the butter into small pieces and put into a bowl with the flour. Rub together with your fingertips until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs. You can also do this in a food processor.
  3. Stir in the spice, Tate & Lyle light brown soft sugar and dried fruits and mix. Now add the Lyle’s Golden Syrup, egg and stir in enough milk to make a stiff dough. Place heaped teaspoons on the baking sheet and bake for 12 minutes until golden brown. Transfer to a cooling rack. When cold dust with icing sugar.
  4. To make these Rock cakes look like snowballs, sandwich together with butter cream. Beat the butter, Tate & Lyle icing sugar and milk together until smooth and then using a small palette knife spread a little on half of the rock cakes and place another on top. Dust with icing sugar when assembled.

Recipe is courtesy of: Lorna Rhodes

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