These Chocolate Chip Rock Cakes are perfect for anyone who doesn't like dried fruit such as sultanas in their Rock Buns. An easy recipe to make, they bake in 15 mins.
How to make Rock Cakes with Chocolate Chips
Always have your oven preheated, for this recipe it needs to be at 180deg (Fan Assisted). Have ready a baking tray lined with a sheet of baking parchment or a non stick baking mat.
Add the flour, salt, and sugar into a large bowl. Give it a little mix. Using your finger tips, rub in the butter until you have fine breadcrumbs.
Add the chocolate chips and give everything a good mix ensuring all the chocolate is distributed evenly. Mix the egg, vanilla extract, and milk together in a small jug or dish then add to the flour mixture. Bring everything together to form a stiff dough.
Spoon 12 individual mounds of dough onto the baking tray. Don’t worry about trying to make them smooth, they are meant to look like little rocks. Dust with the Demerara sugar. If you forget to do this, you can sprinkle the sugar on top after baking while they are still warm.
Bake in the centre of the oven for 15 mins or until baked and golden brown in colour. If you choose to make larger Rock Buns, the baking times will differ and they will take longer to bake.
Take out of the oven and dust with demerara sugar while still warm if you forget to do this earlier. Leave to cool.
Other Little Cake Recipes
- Fruit Rock Cakes
- Strawberry Butterfly Cakes
- Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes
- Apple and Cinnamon Muffins
- Pumpkin Muffins
- Blackberry and Oat Muffins.
TIPS AND FAQ’S
If you can’t get hold of a packet of Chocolate Chips, chop 100g of chocolate into small chunks. You can use Dark, Milk or White Chocolate.
Brown sugar always gives a slight nutty toffee flavour, but white sugar or granulated sugar will be fine.
These little rock cakes are best eaten on the day they are made but will keep for a couple of days if kept in an airtight container.
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Chocolate Chip Rock Cakes (Rock Buns)
Ingredients - Imperial /oz are approx weights which are calculated by a 3rd party app
- 200 g Self Raising Flour
- Pinch of Salt
- 50 g light brown sugar caster sugar is fine
- 110 g Unsalted butter
- 100 g Chocolate Chips or chocolate broken into small chunkes. Dark, Milk or White Chocolate.
- ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 medium egg
- 2 tablespoons milk
- Tablespoon demerara sugar for dusting (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180deg Fan Assisted.
- Line a baking tray with a sheet of baking parchment or a non stick baking mat.
- Add the flour, salt, and sugar into a large bowl. Give it a little mix.
- Using your finger tips, rub in the butter until you have fine breadcrumbs.
- Add the chocolate chips and give everything a good mix ensuring all the chocolate is distributed evenly.
- Mix the egg, vanilla extract and milk together in a small jug or dish then add to the flour mixture.
- Bring everything together to form a stiff dough.
- Spoon 12 individual mounds of dough onto the baking tray. Old Fashioned Rock cakes have a rough surface, so don’t worry about trying to make them smooth. Dust with the Demorara sugar. If you forget to do this, you can sprinkle the sugar on top after baking while they are still warm.
- Bake in the centre of the oven for 15 mins or until baked. They should have a nice golden colour. If you choose to make larger Rock Buns, the baking times will differ and they will take longer to bake.
- Take out of the oven and dust with demerara sugar while still warm if you forget to do this earlier. Leave to cool.
Notes
TIPS AND FAQ’S
- Chocolate chips – If you can't get hold of a packet of Chocolate Chips, chop 100g of chocolate into small chunks. You can use Dark, Milk or White Chocolate.
- Brown Sugar – Brown sugar always gives a slight nutty toffee flavour, but white sugar or granulated sugar will be fine.
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