Dessert Recipes - Tutti Frutti Roll Recipe

Ingredients

• A little oil, for greasing

• 25 g/1/4 cup glace (candied) cherries, rinsed, dried and roughly chopped

• 25 g/1/4 cup chopped almonds

• 100 g/4 oz/2/3 cup sultanas (golden raisins)

• 75 ml/5 tbsp clear honey

• 150 g/5 oz/1 1/4 cups self-raising flour

• A pinch of salt

• 50 g/2 oz/1/2 cup shredded (chopped) vegetable suet

• 1 egg, beaten

• 60 ml/4 tbsp milk

• 15 ml/1 tbsp granulated sugar

• Creme fraiche, to serve

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Method:

1. Oil a baking (cookie) sheet. Mix  together the cherries, almonds, sultanas and honey.

2. Sift the flour and salt into a bowl. Stir in the suet. Add all but 15 ml/1 tbsp of the egg and enough of the milk to form a soft but not sticky dough.

3. Knead gently on a lightly floured surface. Roll out to a rectangle about 30 x 20 cm/12 x 8 in.

4. Spread the filling over the surface to within 1 cm/1/2 in of the edge all round.

5. Brush the edges with a little of the reserved beaten egg. Roll up, starting from a long edge. and press the edges together to seal.

6. Transfer to the baking sheet. Brush with the remaining egg and sprinkle with the sugar.

7. Bake in a preheated oven at 200C/400F/gas mark 6 for 20 minutes until crisp and golden. Serve hot. cut into slices, with creme fraiche.