Recreating the Fat Rascal That Earns Betty’s Over 2 Million Pounds a Year
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- 16,000 of these fat rascals are made at Betty's tea rooms every single week, equating to over 2 million pounds a year. So it was definitely worth trying to recreate the little rascal.
The BBC recently aired a program called "remarkable places to eat" hosted by Fred Sirieix. Fred went behind the scenes in to the bakery and we were able to get a bit of a sneaky peak into the process Betty's follows to make Fat Rascals.
This is my original Fat Rascal recipe which I've tweaked to encompass Betty's spin on this famous rascal. I'm sure it isn't exactly spot on, but I have a sneaky suspicion that it's pretty close. One thing is for sure, they taste absolutely amazing.
The ingredients are listed below and the full recipe including the method is available on my website. Follow the link below.
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Recipe Ingredients:
150g Unsalted butter
80g Brown sugar
Zest from 1 orange
1/4 tsp of cinnamon
1/4 tsp finely grated nutmeg
1 tsp baking powder
150g all purpose flour
150g Self raising flour
2 eggs
75g mixed peel
75g currants
Pinch of salt
(touch of double cream may be needed to adjust the consistency of the mixture)
To decorate
5 glacé cherries cut in half
15 blanched almonds
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Not having any hope of every being able to visit the UK and try a Betty's Fat Rascal at source, I tried this recipe and it is an absolute winner. The many layers of flavour that come through in the finished product are fantastic. A great big thank you to you for this prize winning recipe. Very well done.
Thank you for your expert comments as well as being able to see How To! Cheers! :D
Happy holidays Philip! Thanks for all the recipes 👏
One of my favorite things here, are the recipes that are completely unknown to me, and this is one! They look amazing, not familiar with a couple ingredients, but another add to my list to try. Cheers!
Made this recipe 2 times this week! Love it! I did reduce the baking powder the second time though and I also tried the traditional scone method of rubbing the butter in the flour and loved the results even more 😍😍😍
Just made these, thank you very much for sharing 😊
Awesome! What did you think?
Never heard of these but how fun to try! But not as fun as a five year old to enjoy eating them! What a perfect age for enjoying all the glitz and glimmer of the holidays. Have a very Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!!
Cheers Melody, she's been bouncing off of the walls all day!
Thank you Phillip! What a great little recipe. Hope you and your family had a great Christmas and may this new year bring only good! ❤
Happy new year to you too Claudia! I hope you have a great 2022 :)
@@CulinaryExploration thank you so much! 😊
@@claudiamedina2825 You're welcome, I'm guessing you are enjoying some nice Christmas and New Year weather at the mo!
@@CulinaryExploration not to make you jealous but yes, Queensland is just paradise!
A nice, cheeky little recipe there, Phil, that includes your 5 a day.
Have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
It does indeed matey. Have a great Christmas bud, speak soon
Hmm Betty's Tea Rooms - smashing!!! Thanks for sharing the knowledge as always. :)
Cheers Jem
Sounds about right. I roll out the dough to about 1/2 inch thickness and use a 3 inch round cutter to make the rascals. Otherwise spot on.
I love local items that are not in the States. History and culture, baked item from your childhood and the memories that just the smell makes you homesick. I am planning on making Christmas pudding.(my mother simply called it Carrot pudding) Growing up it was a tradition to have the steamed cake. I didn't appreciate it until I was much older.
Thanks for sharing! 👍🏻👍🏻
My first attempt at these little rascals has just come out of the oven. Lovely flavour, light and fluffy as well. When you said 150g was a generous portion size, you weren't wrong, Phil
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Just got home and seen your email about the flour, I'll get back to you in the morning about the other bits too. These fat rascals are great fun and I really liked them. I do think they sit somewhere between a scone and a rock cake, but better than both ;)
Merry Christmas!
May I know why self raising flour and plain flour? Any difference if just use all plain flour and add an extra 1 tsp baking powder?
Thanks for the recipe, going to make it tomorrow. Why do they have cream looking thing on pic on betty’s website. I thought they were filled 😂
Please bring back Little Bettys in the Shambles York
Sounds wonderful but I don’t have self raising flour. What adjustments can I make?
Yum! My kids loved this sort thing.
Birdy
They are good fun Birdy, merry Christmas
I was at Betty's in Ilkley recently - fat rascals cost £3 each so I've been searching out recipes. The one thing every recipe I've seen online does is use glace cherries. I'm fairly sure Betty's FRs don't use glace cherries. The cherries on their rascals are darker and chewy when eaten. I'm probably wrong, but the closest to the colour of Betty's rascal cherries I've seen online are Amarena cherries.
What is the degrees and temp
Epic. Just epic. They are so so tasty. Agree with others - i think can reduce the baking power by half - but else this is gonna save me a shed load of money. Sorry Betty - your pension will take a hit 😉
They are in the 2 ovens - mini oven and halogen oven. Wish me luck!
I've eaten loads of these and this is pretty much nob on my missus loves em. Tho on my second bake I upped both the peel and currants to 100grams
spices - cinnamon and mixed spice (English)
Think I could be described asca fat rascal after today's excesses 😃😃 If I ever eat again, I'll give this a go
Look yummy did munchkin like them? Happy Christmas to you all xx
She did, cheers Ann. Merry Christmas to all of you too xx
Cheeky!