Anyone else think rock cakes are undervalued?

[Cecillie]

Love them personally.
Not really a sponge cake, cup cake person but rock cakes weirdly I love.
Add in some spice, orange peel, glacé cherries, walnuts and chocolate chips and they are lovely.
Just feel you never really see them getting the love that the nasty icing laden cupcake monstrosities get 🤣

Only when they are really fresh though. They go dry so quickly

Love them! Ds makes great ones, he got top marks in food tech for his rock buns

Oh god yes, I'm with you 100%

Once went to an afternoon tea party with a batch of rock cakes which were left uneaten because someone else brought cupcakes. Sob.

Agreed! Lovely texture when they're fresh but not great when they've been hanging around

Blimey I haven't had a rock cake in years! Thanks OP, I'm going to find a recipe!

Yup. And Betty's fat rascals. I'd rather have something like a rock cake, scone, or fat rascal than any rich cake with two inches of icing.

I love rock cakes. One of the first things I learnt to bake myself when I was young. Need to be eaten that day, though.

Yes, I still make the Rock cake recipe from my 1975 BeRo book.

Warm from the oven ❤️

Omg I'd forgotten all about them. I remember making them in school and I hadn't ever had one before. I'd eaten the lot by the time I got home.
I need some 40 years later sorry mum 😃

Rock cakes were the first thing I made at school! Always love them and also dislike all the icing that’s popular at the moment. I still use my school recipe, which is in my 12 year old hand writing, though nowadays I use butter instead of stork and double the spice…
They take just over 10 minutes to cook.

Yes , Fantastic!
I made these so often as a teenager/in 20s.
Simple, quick and more ish

Haven't had rock cakes since my grandma died, I'd almost forgotten about them, this thread has prompted so many happy memories or standing in her kitchen making up the mix and then peering through the oven door waiting for them to be cooked and nabbing one off the cooling rack while still warm.

Thank you OP!

Glad to have brought back happy memories 🙂

You are all right, they are best out of the oven
Might experiment next time and keep a bit of mixture in the fridge for a day or so, see if can cook in small batches,

Here’s the recipe I use,quick as you do the rubbing stage in food processor, though obv you could do by hand, especially if you had little people helping.
I add chopped glacé cherries and chocolate chips
Usually only take about 15 mins in oven as well

kitchenaid.co.nz/blogs/kitchenthusiast/sugar-crusted-rock-cakes-0

Yum!!
Definitely warm from the oven is the best way to eat them ❤️

I always thought they were called rock cakes because if you don't eat them straight out of the oven they go as hard as rocks 

@Ionlydomassiveones have you tried aquafaba? The liquid around tinned chickpeas. Full of protein.

I'm with you on rock cakes- HATE those horrible sickly looking cupcakes with about three inches of margarine based icing . I like to put a little sprinkle of demerara sugar on top before they go in the oven