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Cooking In The Kitchen Having Fun – Cherry & Coconut Rock Buns

September 22, 2014 · by munchiesandmunchkins · 6 Comments

It’s been aggesssssss since I last wrote one of these posts so I apologise for that but we have still been baking together and having fun – sometimes I forget to take pics or write down recipes while make lots of mess and eat all the cake mixture!

Last week we baked a few times together firstly in preparation for her birthday party – cupcakes freeze well don’t ya know?

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And secondly we made some rock buns which always go down well as it means Izzy can put her hands in the mixture and have a good play about in the kitchen. This time around I gave her some more challenging jobs such chopping the cherries up and helping me weigh the ingredients out and we had a ball.

Izzy preparing to bake with one of the lovely spoons that was gifted to us by Flora as a present when Chloe was born:

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Cherry & Coconut Buns

You will need:

225g Self Raising Flour
100g Butter/Margarine ( we used flora buttery)
50g caster sugar
1 medium beaten egg
1 large handful of glacé cherries ( roughly chopped)
30g Sweet shredded coconut
2tbsp of milk

Preheat oven to gas mark 6.

Rub your butter into your flour – this is the fun and messy part for kids!
Add your sugar, cherries and coconut and mix well. Now add your egg and 1tbsp of milk and mix to a stuff dough – kids may need help here. If it’s too dry add your second tbsp of milk. Place in balls on a greased baking tray or you could use a silicon cupcake mould. Bake for about 12 minutes or until golden.

Izzy chopping the cherries.. one for the bowl ..one for her belly.

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And the only pic I have of the finished product. They were devoured still warm in about 10 minutes. Oops.

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Retro recipes.. Rock buns

August 13, 2013 · by munchiesandmunchkins · Leave a Comment

I’ve been making Rock Buns for a long time.. I can remember it being one of the first things I learnt to cook from my mums Bero book and now I more or less make them from memory with a few adaptations. It’s been a few years since I last did it but over the weekend my mum dropped some over that she had made and they were lovely and well I wanted more! It feels good to be baking again 🙂

As always it’s a fairly simple recipe but you can change it in lots of ways to make it your own.

The basic recipe can be found here and here is my version:

Zesty Dark Chocolate Rock Buns

225g Self Raising Flour
A pinch of salt
100g Butter ( I rarely use margarine when baking)
75g dark choc roughly chopped
Zest of 1 orange and 1 lemon
50g caster sugar
1 medium egg
1/2 tsp nutmeg
milk to mix (as needed)

Preheat oven and prepare two baking trays or be lazy like me and use 1 silicone cupcake tray and 1 baking tray 😉
Mix flour and salt and rub in your butter with fingertips.

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Add your choc,zest, sugar and nutmeg and combine thoroughly. Add your beaten egg and as much milk as is needed to make a stiff dough. Place in heaps on baking tray or in cupcake cases/tray – depending on how you want them to look. Bake for approx 10-15 mins at gas mark 6. I made 12.

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Eat warm sliced in half with butter or without or cold with a cuppa..or anytime really. They are divine.

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