Vanilla and Date Scones

"These vanilla and date scones are a salute to the talented scone- maker at the Smelting House Cafe. Wonderful with or without butter, hot or cold."
 
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Ready In:
30mins
Ingredients:
6
Yields:
8 scones
Serves:
8
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat oven to 220deg and line a baking tray with baking paper.
  • Put flour, brown sugar and butter into food processor and mix until ingredients are fully combined. Add buttermilk and vanilla. Pulse until just combined.
  • Cut dates in half, remove stones and any stalk heads then add to the mixture and mix and pulse for a second or two – not too long if you want the dates to remain chunky.
  • As the dough will be quite sticky, rub flour on your hands then collect it into a ball and gently knead it into shape. Toss on a sheet of baking paper sprinkled with flour and shape into a rectangle about 3cm thick. Cut the dough in half longwise, then cut each half into four pieces. Transfer pieces to baking tray leaving room to spread, and bake for 10-12 minutes or until scones are a rich golden colour and sound hollow when tapped.
  • NOTE: If you don't have a food processor, rub the butter and flour together with tips of fingers then mix in sugar, buttermilk and vanilla until just combined. Cut dates up and add to mix, stirring to combine.

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I'm a currently unemployed student living in Christchurch, New Zealand. In my spare time, which I have a lot of, I like biking, going to the gym, knitting, sewing, anything crafty basically, and of course cooking and baking! I have a biggg passion for animals, especially dogs and cats. I have one russian blue cat called Jessica and I have my heart set on getting a cute bichon frise whenever I can afford to. One of my biggest pet peeves, when it comes to cooking and food, are people who are afraid to try something new.
 
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