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Rock Cakes

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(3 votes)

Category:     Baked Good

Description:
A small individual cake with firm texture and rough, rock-like appearance containing dried fruit. Popular Australian snack.


General applicability:

Rock Cakes
Green: recipe contains only neutral or a beneficials ingredients for that type.
Yellow: recipe contains an secondary avoid ingredient that may be substituted by a more permissable one.
Orange: contains an avoid in a primary ingredient.



Ingredient list:
  • 1 cup spelt flour [or kamut flour]
  • 1 cup barley flour (or flour to your type)
  • 2 level teaspoons baking soda
  • 2 level teaspoons baking powder [Baking Powder Recipe Variations]
  • 90 grams reduced fat butter or margarine, cut into pieces [or 3 ounces of ghee]
  • 1/2 cup caster (superfine) sugar [or 1/4 cup agave nectar or BTD compliant sweetener]
  • 1/2 cup mixed dried fruit to your type (I use apricots, pineapple and currants), chopped up small
  • 1 Tablespoon chopped nuts to your type (optional)
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground dried ginger
  • 1 egg white
  • 1/2 cup low fat soy milk [or any BTD compliant milk]


How to make it:
  • Preheat oven to 200 deg.C (400 deg.F).
  • Grease 2 oven trays.
  • Sift flours, baking soda, and baking powder together into a large bowl.
  • Add pieces of butter/margarine, and rub in with fingertips until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
  • Mix in sugar, fruit, nuts, and ginger.
  • Whisk egg white into soy milk and add to dry ingredients.
  • Mix to a stiff dough (after initial stirring, I use my hands to mix.)
  • Pile mixture in portions of approximately 3 level Tablespoons (2 if using Australian tablespoon), on prepared oven trays.
  • Bake for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.
  • Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
  • Before serving, rock cakes can be split and buttered if desired.
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Blood Type Diet Analysis:

Core Ingredients Analysis:
The ingredients in this category are either BTD compliant for all types or the recipe author and/or editor did not suggest a possible substitution. If this category contains avoids for your blood type this recipe may not work for you, unless you feel like you can omit the item or make an appropriate substitution.

Ingredient
A
B
O
AB
A NS
B NS
O NS
AB NS
Baking Soda
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
Egg White, Chicken
N
N
N
B
N
N
N
B


Variations and Substitutions Analysis:
This category of ingredients contains possible substitutions that may allow different blood types to use the recipe or ingredients that can be left out of the recipe altogether.

Ingredient
A
B
O
AB
A NS
B NS
O NS
AB NS
Almonds
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
Milk, Rice
N
B
N
B
N
B
N
B
Pineapple
B
B
N
B
B
B
N
B
Ghee, Clarified Butter
N
N
N
N
N
B
N
B
Milk, Almond
N
N
N
N
N
N
A
N
Milk, Soy
B
A
N
N
N
N
A
A
Wheat, Whole Grain Kamut
N
A
A
A
N
A
N
A
Apricots
B
N
N
N
B
N
A
N
Walnuts
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
Pecans
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
Butter
A
N
N
A
A
N
N
A
Barley
N
N
A
N
N
N
A
N
Soybean Flour
B
N
N
B
N
A
A
A
Currants
N
N
N
N
N
B
N
N
Sugar, Brown, White
N
N
N
N
A
A
A
A
Peanuts
B
A
A
B
B
A
A
N
Agave Syrup
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
Rice Flour, White
N
N
N
N
N
N
N
B


Macronutrient Analysis:

This recipe may contain macronutrients with important effects on health

  • The recipe may contain ingredients encourage health microbiome balance