Lemonade Date Scones
photo by Chef floWer
- Ready In:
- 12mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
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20
ingredients
- 4 cups plain flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 375 ml Sprite
- 300 ml cream
- 1 1⁄2 cups dates
directions
- Preheat oven to 200°C
- Place all ingredients in a bowl. Mix until combined.
- Scrape onto a floured surface. Knead lightly and shape the dough out to about 1" thick. Then cut into squares about 3" to 4" squared.
- Place on a greased cookie sheet and brush tops with a little milk.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes or until the top is browned.
- Serve with whatever :).
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Reviews
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Yummy. Only tweaks I made were using half and half instead of cream. Added a extra 1/2 c flour and 1/2 t baking powder as mixture was very wet. Think this could be avoided by only using 330ml lemonade ( standard can ) as other lemonade scone recipes state. Overall though, nice and light mix. Will make again
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I'm actually not going to rate them for this batch. I had put most of it together when I realised that I didn't have cream. I used light evaporated milk instead. I, too, can say that there was too much liquid. (But the evap. milk would not have helped with this, in my case.) I would suggest 2 things.... 1. use thick cream. 2. Only add half the liquid ingredients, mix and then add more as required. Mine worked out really well. They were tall and light. I will make these again but with cream.
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YUM! These fulfilled my 'Bakers Delight' date scone craving. Only change I made was I used lactose free cream. The scone was crusty on the outside and soft on the inside, I think they were extra crusty as my oven is slightly hotter. I served it with some butter. Little Miss (DD) and I really enjoyed them for afternoon tea party with her teddies. Thank you rozeiscool
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I'm rating the way this recipe worked, not the end result. I cut the amount to 6 servings. I do this all the time using the Zaar converter and have never had any problem before. I used diet gingerale in place of Sprite and dried apricots in place of the dates (these are what I had). The problen was that there was far to much liquid for the flour. I ended up mixing in another 1 1/2 cups of flour to get a dough I could cut and added 3 heapings tbs of Splenda to get a lightly sweet taste. All of that working gave me tasty but tough and chewy scones. That said they rose beautifully and have a nice flavor.
Tweaks
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I'm rating the way this recipe worked, not the end result. I cut the amount to 6 servings. I do this all the time using the Zaar converter and have never had any problem before. I used diet gingerale in place of Sprite and dried apricots in place of the dates (these are what I had). The problen was that there was far to much liquid for the flour. I ended up mixing in another 1 1/2 cups of flour to get a dough I could cut and added 3 heapings tbs of Splenda to get a lightly sweet taste. All of that working gave me tasty but tough and chewy scones. That said they rose beautifully and have a nice flavor.
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