Plump rascals

Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gasoline 4. Line a immense baking sheet with baking parchment. Assign the flours and butter in a meals processor and blitz unless you’ve a texture admire supreme breadcrumbs (it’s likely you’ll per chance additionally carry out this by hand by rubbing the butter into the flour). Tip correct into a immense bowl and depart within the baking powder, sugar, combined dried fruit, cinnamon, nutmeg, orange and lemon zest, and a pinch of salt.

Mix to combine every little thing, then depart in all nevertheless 1½ tbsp crushed egg. Collect correct into a ball of dough – if it’s too dry then combine in 1-2 tbsp milk. You would prefer to own a soft dough, reminiscent of a scone dough. Divide the dough into 6 and press every allotment correct into a fat disc that’s around 3-4cm thick. Assign the rounds onto the baking tray after which glaze with the final egg. Assign 2 pieces of cherry on high to resemble eyes and horizontally line up 3 blanched almonds a centimetre down from the cherries to resemble a mouth. Bake within the oven for 15-20 mins unless cooked via. You would maybe per chance presumably faucet on the backside and so that they’ll tranquil sound hollow.