Scones
Choose your adventure recipe for sweet or savoury scones.
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1/3 cup sugar for sweet scones or 1/6 cup for savoury scones
- 1/4 tsp salt for sweet scones or 1/2 tsp for savoury scones
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup cold butter
- 1/4 cup fruit or shredded cheese (or whatever floats your boat)
- 1/2 to 1 cup buttermilk
Steps
- Mix dry ingredients
- Grate butter into dry mix; periodically mix to coat shredded butter with dry mix
- Add fruit or cheese
- Add buttermilk ½ cup at first, mix and add a little at a time (might not need all of it) until the dough isn’t sticky
- Make sure not to over-mix or over-knead
- Shape into flat-ish circle and cut into 6 scones; place on baking sheet
- Bake at 350F for 8 minutes, rotate tray 180 degrees, then bake 8 more minutes
Choose your adventure
- Raspberry Lemon: raspberries and zest of 1 lemon
- Blueberry Vanilla: blueberries and 1 tsp vanilla extract (or 9g vanilla sugar)
- Jalapeno Cheddar: 1 large jalapeño, sliced, and 100g shredded cheddar cheese
- Cheddar Chive: 2 tsp dried chives and 100g shredded cheese