Rocky cookies: Tasty bites to brighten up teatime every day

You can never have enough recipes for teatime. Our rocky cookies recipe is another delicious addition to your teatime recipes to bring out from time to time.

These easy biscuits are not only tasty but also super easy to prepare. These rocky cookies are perfect to dip in your tea or coffee and they are also awesome for the little ones when they ask for a sweet bite.

How to prepare your rocky cookies for teatime

Prepare these cookies from a simple rough dough of self-raising flour, margarine, dried fruit, caster sugar, milk and an egg. Roll the dough into balls, pop into the oven and get ready for a mouth-watering bite.

These biscuits include sultanas, but you can be creative with different types of goodies to include in the dough. Try some almond nuts or any other type of nut according to your taste. Let us know in the comments of this recipe when you have prepared these delicious cookies.

Rocky cookies recipe

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Recipe by Marele van Zyl
Course: Snacks, TreatsCuisine: GlobalDifficulty: Easy

Prep time

15

minutes

Cooking time

15

minutes

Total time

30

minutes

Ingredients

• 225 g self-raising flour

• 110 g butter or margarine

• 110 g caster sugar

• 110 g sultanas

• 1 egg beaten

• 2 tablespoons milk

• 1 teaspoon mixed spice

• ½ teaspoon cinnamon

Method

• Preheat the oven to 175⁰C.
• Sift the flour into a bowl.
• Rub in the butter or margarine until it looks like breadcrumbs.
• Stir in the sugar and spices.
• Add the egg and milk and stir into a dough.
• Stir in the sultanas.
• Grease a baking tray.
• Using two teaspoons make a 9-12 blobs of dough – use one spoon to scoop up the dough and the other to scrape it off the spoon onto the baking tray.
• Bake for about 15 minutes until golden brown.

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