Pumpkin spice scones

Halloween recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 12 mins; recipe has self-raising flour, butter, golden caster sugar, pumpkin spice, pumpkin, milk and butter.

Pumpkin spice scones

Pumpkin spice scones

Recipe by Chef Soomro Course: Halloween
Servings

4 - 8

servings
Prep time

15 mins

Ingredients

  • Milk: 80-100ml milk
  • Butter: 100g cold butter
  • Self Raising Flour: 450g self-raising flour, plus extra for rolling
  • Golden Caster Sugar: 50g golden caster sugar
  • Pumpkin: 200g cooked pumpkin
  • Pumpkin Spice: 1-2 tsp pumpkin spice (or mix 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp ginger, a good grind of nutmeg and a pinch of allspice)

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Put the flour in abowland coarsely grate in the butter (dipping the butter into the flour can make it easier to grate; do this as often as you need). Use a butter knife to stir the butter into the flour, then mix in the sugar and spice.
  2. Add the pumpkin and 80ml milk to the flour mixture and quickly stir everything together. Add more milk if you need to.
  3. Tip the mixture onto a floured surface and lightly bring together with your hands a couple of times.Roll outuntil 4cm thick and stamp out rounds with a 7cm cutter. Re-shape the trimmings until all the dough has been used. Place the rounds on a lightly floured baking sheet and brush the tops with any remaining milk. Bake for 10-12 mins until risen and lightly browned.