Crunchy yet Moist Scones
photo by Lalaloula
- Ready In:
- 14mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
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12 Scones
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 3 cups self raising flour
- 1 tablespoon caster sugar
- 80 g butter, chopped
- 1 cup milk
- jam, to serve
- cream, to serve
directions
- Preheat oven 220 degrees. Sprinkle flour over flat baking tray.
- Sift flour into medium bowl. Add sugar. Using your fingertips rub butter into flour mixture until it resembles fine bread crumbs.
- Add milk. Use a flat bladed knife to mix until dough begins to come together. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead gently until dough comes together.
- Flatten dough with the palm of your hand until 2cm thick. Use a 5cm cutter to cut out scones. Place onto baking tray 1cm apart. Bake for 14-16 minutes or until goldn and cooked through.
- Serve warm with Jam and Cream.
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Reviews
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WOW!!! These scones are just like you said: Lovely moist and fluffy on the inside with a crunchy crust on top. Mmm, the taste is really nice, too! Your directions were easy to follow and the dough perfect to handle. THANKS SO MUCH for sharing this wonderful recipe with us! Made and reviewed for one of my preemies during PAC Fall 09.
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My name is Kaylah and I am 12 years old and passionnte aboutmy cooking, i enjoy cooking desserts, pastrys ( i cant spell :P) , pastas, and many more but anything sweet appeals to me. I am an Auzzie so i love BBQ's and even though i am australian one of my role models are Jamie Oliver, wish i could meet him (: but i sat down one day just reading his cookbooks, sooo interesting with his teqnichues that i was sitting there for hours! =] anyways thats me .. ~*~*~*~