• Scrumptious fruit and bran rusks

    Serves: Makes about 24
    Cooking Time: 1 hr + overnight for drying

    Ingredients

    • 500g cake flour
    • 5ml (1 tsp) baking powder
    • a pinch of salt
    • 100g muesli
    • 100g bran flakes
    • 100g mixed raisins and currants
    • 50g sultanas
    • 50ml sesame seeds
    • 50g desiccated coconut
    • 200g brown sugar
    • 250ml (1 cup) plain yoghurt
    • 1 large egg, beaten
    • 250g margarine, melted
    • 25ml vanilla extract

    Instructions

    1

    Preheat the oven to 180°C and lightly grease a baking tray.

    2

    Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix well.

    3

    Mix the yoghurt, egg and margarine, then stir in the vanilla extract.

    4

    Add the yoghurt mixture to the dry ingredients and mix to incorporate.

    5

    Pour the mixture into the baking tray and bake until golden, about 50 minutes.

    6

    Remove and cut into rusks. Separate slightly so that any moist parts are exposed. Decrease the oven temperature to 100°C.

    7

    Place the tray back in the oven and leave overnight until the rusks have dried completely. Store in an airtight container.

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