Emily had visitors on Friday, one of them was only three months old so his mum needed a celebration scone!
Scones to the rescue, healthy celebrations!
I wanted to bake something that didn’t need clotted cream so plumped for Morello sour cherry scones. (I adapted Jamie Oliver’s scone recipe from his Great Britain cook book)
Ingredients:
150g cold unsalted butter
500g Self Raising Flour
2 level teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla caster sugar
Pinch sea salt
2 large free range eggs
4 tablespoons buttermilk
Method:
Preheat oven to 200C.
Rub together your butter and flour until it looks like breadcrumbs. Add sugar, baking powder, salt and make a well in the middle of these ingredients for eggs. Stir with a spatula. Add buttermilk then cherries. Mix as little as possible so that a rough dough is formed. Pop into fridge for 15 mins.
Roll out cool mixture 2-3 cm thick, use a 6 cm cutter to cut circles from the dough. Line them up on a baking tray and brush with milk if you want (I never do) Bake for 15 -16 mins.
Yum with a smear of butter and a pot of good strong tea!
Beastie slunk into the kitchen and skedaddled away 5 scones before I bellowed “BEASTIE!”
Beastie is in the doghouse – literally.
Adore that Beastie took some scones
– delicious for dogs too apparently!! Love that Beastie!!
Scones do call for celebration <3 <3
I'm adding slivered almonds to these party scones 🙂
Oh – I like your silvered almonds idea!