Rock Cakes

[Martin62]

This weeks bake

 

[Martin62]

Here is the recipe that I used from explorer momma.com

 

[stephenS50]

Rock cakes were one of the first things I learned to make in Home Ecconomics class at school so to see these excellent looking rock cakes are bringing back so great memories...gonna have to make some.

 

[silver minion]

They look scrumptious. Only problem is my husband is allergic to coconut. Could you add more almond flour? I understand they are not equal volume substitutes. What percentage would work? BYW my first memories of baking was rock cakes. I was probably 5 or 6 years old. Mum did the oven stuff but my brother and I did all the measuring and mixing

 

[Leadinglights]

They look scrumptious. Only problem is my husband is allergic to coconut. Could you add more almond flour? I understand they are not equal volume substitutes. What percentage would work? BYW my first memories of baking was rock cakes. I was probably 5 or 6 years old. Mum did the oven stuff but my brother and I did all the measuring and mixing

There is only a small amount of coconut flour so I would think it would be OK to leave out and use the extra almond flour. I find if I use almond flour/ground almonds I don't need nearly as much sweetener as it says especially if you add the dried fruit.
Yes I remember the rock cakes made at school truly were ROCK cakes.

 

[Martin62]

As it's such a small amount of coconut flour , I should imagine that you could leave it out completely. Please note that I am not a trained baker though , I just use recipes I find on the net.

 

[silver minion]

As it's such a small amount of coconut flour , I should imagine that you could leave it out completely. Please note that I am not a trained baker though , I just use recipes I find on the net.

That's fine. It's all about experimenting. I am not keen on artificial sweetener so I would do the same as you. As for school ROCK cakes, left them well alone as I didn't want to break a tooth.