Scone recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 15 mins; recipe has self-raising flour, bicarbonate of soda, butter, caster sugar, buttermilk, milk, vanilla extract, glace cherry and clotted cream.
Cherry scones
Course: Scone
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Milk: 2 tbsp milk
- Butter: 100g cold butter, diced
- Caster Sugar: 2 tbsp caster sugar
- Bicarbonate Of Soda: 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- Self Raising Flour: 450g self-raising flour
- Vanilla Extract: 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Buttermilk: 284ml pot buttermilk
- Glace Cherry: 100g glace cherry, chopped
- Clotted Cream: clotted cream and cherry or strawberry jam, to serve
Directions
- Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Put the flour, 1/2 tsp salt, bicarb and butter into a bowl and rub in with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Mix in the sugar.
- Quickly mix in the buttermilk, a splash of milk, vanilla and cherries and bring together to form a soft dough. Press out onto a lightly floured surface, to about 3cm thick. Cut out with 5cm cutters.
- Transfer to a lightly floured baking sheet, brush with the remaining milk and bake for 12-15 mins until golden and well risen. Serve with clotted cream and jam.
