Strawberry Scones

Strawberry Scones

Posted by Elaine on 6:46 PM in bread, breakfast, Bridal Shower, valentine ideas,

Everyone loves these scones.  They melt in your mouth.

What You Will Need:

2 cups flour

1/2 cup flour (for kneading dough)

2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 cup sugar

4 tbsp. butter, chilled

3/4 cup cream

1/2 cup chopped fresh strawberries

Putting The Scones Together:

Mix flour, baking powder and sugar.  Cut in butter.  Stir in milk and strawberries, until blended.  Put dough on floured surface and gently knead into a ball.  Flatten to 1 1/2" thickness.  Cut into squares or you can use a shape.  The dough is really sticky, so dip your knife or cookie cutter in flour for each cut.  Place scones on greased cookie sheet or cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.  Bake scones at 400 degrees for 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Don't over bake.  Ice scones as soon as they come out of the oven.

Icing:  Mix 2 tbsp. melted butter with one cup powdered sugar, slowly stir in small amounts of milk until you reach a slightly runny consistency.

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Raspberry Scones

Raspberry Scones

Posted by Unknown on 8:37 AM in bread, breakfast, megan's creations, valentine ideas,

From Megan's Kitchen

So it turns out that you can use any delicious fruit to make THESE scones from our blog.  I made these for a brunch I hosted this morning and I used raspberry's since Costco fell through in the strawberry department and everybody loved them. (Recipe also found under the following categories:  breakfast, Valentine's Day and bread).

I still used half a cup of berries and I cut my raspberry's in half. But it turns out you don't have to because they completely crumble when you mix them in anyways. Some things that I find work best  - add the berries to the dry mixture BEFORE you add the cream. They don't mix in very easily if you do it after. Also, I always have my butter at room temperature and it works fine. You either pat this into a square and get 16 scones, but I usually pat it into a rectangle and cut 12. Bigger is better, right :). If you want to double the recipe, just make the recipe twice...it doesn't seem to work out very well when you double the ingredients. Enjoy!

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