Our sticky marmalade roll recipe is inspired by CS Lewis‘s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in which Mrs Beaver serves the comforting dessert to the children.
Take a look at these pop cakes, inspired by The Magic Faraway Tree, too!
Ingredients
- Butter for greasing
- 300g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
- 6 tbsp light muscovado sugar
- 150g vegetable or beef suet
- 200ml whole milk
- 450g marmalade (we like Frank Cooper’s Oxford marmalade)
- Icing sugar for dusting
- Custard to serve
Method
- Heat the oven to 200°C/fan180°C/ gas 6. Grease a 45cm x 35cm sheet of baking paper and lay it on a work surface, greased-side up.
- Sift the flour into a large bowl and stir in the muscovado sugar, suet and a pinch of salt. Add the milk and mix with a palette knife or metal spoon to form a firm dough.
- Tip onto a lightly floured surface, knead with your Hands for a minute or two, then roll out with a rolling pin to form a rectangle about 40cm x 30cm. Transfer to the greased baking paper, then spread thickly with the marmalade. Roll up tightly from the short end (use the baking paper to help you), and squeeze the ends a little to make it harder for the marmalade to ooze out as it cooks.
- Roll the baking paper tightly around the dough, then wrap in foil, scrunching the ends to seal.
- Put the roll on a rack in a roasting tin and pour boiling water into the tin, making sure the water doesn’t touch the foil. Bake for 1 hour 10 minutes or until a skewer pushed into the roll comes out with no soft dough stuck to it, just marmalade. Remove the foil and baking paper, leave for 2 minutes, then slice and serve with custard and cups of tea.
Nutrition
- 492kcals Calories
- 17.9g (9.1g saturated) Fat
- 4.5g Protein
- 79.8g (51.5g sugars) Carbs
- 1.8g Fibre
- 0.5g Salt
For 8 servings
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I love this recipe because it uses fresh local ingredients which signal the start of summer (and its delicious!).
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