Better-than-hagrid's Rock Cakes

Total Time: 28 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 13 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 14
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup butter, chilled
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup raisins
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons milk
• coarse sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400°f line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
• 2 whisk the flour, baking soda and salt together in a large bowl and rub in the butter lightly with the fingers until the mix looks like breadcrumbs. stir in the sugar and currants.
• 3 beat the egg together lightly with the milk and vanilla. pour it into the flour mixture and stir until the dough comes together into a ball.
• 4 shape dough into 2 inch balls, dip the tops in coarse sugar and place on baking sheet. they won’t spread very much, so they can be fairly close together.
• 5 bake for about 13-16 minutes, until tops of cakes are light gold.
• 6 remove to a wire rack to cool, or eat them straight away.