Cherry Scones - easy and delicious
I love baking. I love baking alot. Since going to uni, and having to be a somewhat competent cook, I have found experimenting with cooking so much fun. Sometimes I use recipes and sometimes I just wing it which has yielded me varying shades of joy and disaster. Good or bad I find the act of cooking relaxing.
Last year I decided I wanted to treat my mum to some home made scones. So off to the Internet I went and found a lot of recipes that just seemed ridiculously complicated. Also where on earth do you find buttermilk?? I tell my flatmate of my plight and her mum gifts me with perhaps the simplest scone recipe in the world. She didn't make this recipe herself I believe she got it from an old Mary Berry cook book.
This recipe is so easy and I've made it so many times I know it pretty much by heart. If like my mother you are a fiend for scones I'm afraid to say they will be gone before tomorrow.
By the way you don't have to use cherries! I've made them with mixed dried fruit before and they were just as nice. Try experimenting with different fruit and see what you like best.
Now onto the baking! Before we debate how to say scones
Ingredients
500g self raising flour (+ extra to roll out the dough)
100g butter
50g sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
300 ml of milk (+ extra to rub on the top of each scone)
1 tub of glace cherries (~200g)
Utensils
Measuring bowl
Weighing scales
Metal/wooden spoon for mixing (whichever you prefer!)
Rolling pin
Baking tray (Grease proof paper is optional to line the tray)
Cutter/cup (to cut out the scones)
Cooling tray
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 200°c.
2. Line the tray with greaseproof if you are using it. I like to stick the paper down with a swipe of butter on each corner of the paper.
3. Weigh out the flour and butter and mix with your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs. This step is pretty easy due to the small amount of butter.
4. Weigh out the sugar and salt and add to the bowl. Mix all the dry ingredients together.
5. Chop your cherries into quarters and mix into the dry ingredients with a spoon making sure they are well distributed.
6. Slowly add your milk and mix. Don't worry if it looks a little bit too wet.
7. Sprinkle your countertop and rolling pin with flour.
8. Place your dough into the flour and if it is a little too wet fold some of the flour on the counter into the dough.
9. Roll out your dough until it is about 2cm thick.
10. Cut out your scones and place onto the baking tray.
11. Continue re rolling and cutting until you have used all of the dough.
12. Dab a small amount of milk onto the top of each scone before putting into the oven for 10 minutes.
13. After 10 minutes the scones will be done. You can check this by tapping their bottoms - they should sound hollow.
14. Put onto the cooling rack and enjoy.
These scones are great on their own as they have the added sweetness from the cherries. However, they are also nice with butter, jam or cream if you prefer.
Let me know if any of you make these!
Sophie
Last year I decided I wanted to treat my mum to some home made scones. So off to the Internet I went and found a lot of recipes that just seemed ridiculously complicated. Also where on earth do you find buttermilk?? I tell my flatmate of my plight and her mum gifts me with perhaps the simplest scone recipe in the world. She didn't make this recipe herself I believe she got it from an old Mary Berry cook book.
This recipe is so easy and I've made it so many times I know it pretty much by heart. If like my mother you are a fiend for scones I'm afraid to say they will be gone before tomorrow.
By the way you don't have to use cherries! I've made them with mixed dried fruit before and they were just as nice. Try experimenting with different fruit and see what you like best.
Now onto the baking!
Ingredients
500g self raising flour (+ extra to roll out the dough)
100g butter
50g sugar
1 teaspoon of salt
300 ml of milk (+ extra to rub on the top of each scone)
1 tub of glace cherries (~200g)
Utensils
Measuring bowl
Weighing scales
Metal/wooden spoon for mixing (whichever you prefer!)
Rolling pin
Baking tray (Grease proof paper is optional to line the tray)
Cutter/cup (to cut out the scones)
Cooling tray
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 200°c.
2. Line the tray with greaseproof if you are using it. I like to stick the paper down with a swipe of butter on each corner of the paper.
3. Weigh out the flour and butter and mix with your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs. This step is pretty easy due to the small amount of butter.
4. Weigh out the sugar and salt and add to the bowl. Mix all the dry ingredients together.
5. Chop your cherries into quarters and mix into the dry ingredients with a spoon making sure they are well distributed.
6. Slowly add your milk and mix. Don't worry if it looks a little bit too wet.
7. Sprinkle your countertop and rolling pin with flour.
8. Place your dough into the flour and if it is a little too wet fold some of the flour on the counter into the dough.
9. Roll out your dough until it is about 2cm thick.
10. Cut out your scones and place onto the baking tray.
11. Continue re rolling and cutting until you have used all of the dough.
12. Dab a small amount of milk onto the top of each scone before putting into the oven for 10 minutes.
13. After 10 minutes the scones will be done. You can check this by tapping their bottoms - they should sound hollow.
14. Put onto the cooling rack and enjoy.
These scones are great on their own as they have the added sweetness from the cherries. However, they are also nice with butter, jam or cream if you prefer.
Let me know if any of you make these!
Sophie
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