For this month’s Home Bakers Challenge, Priya suggested scones. She gave us four recipes to choose from I chose to make these simple scones. The original recipe had raisins but I opted for dries cranberries. Scone is a single serving cake or quick bread. Unlike tea cakes and sweet buns which use yeast for rising, scones use baking powder as leavening agent. These are mildly sweet and are usually served along with jam or spread. The scone has the same ingredients as the pastries but in different proportions of fat and flour. Chilled butter is rubbed into flour and this step is so much like the short crust pastry preparation.
When I decided to make scones, I wanted it to be different. So I used the batch of dried cranberries I bought recently. Cranberry scones were so buttery and flaky and tasted so nice. Usually scones are made into wedges but I chose to make small rounds. Call me lazy, I din’t want to roll the dough and cut into rounds. I just pinched small portions and shaped them into rounds. As the scones are flaky, they will not have a smooth top. They look some what rustic, but are absolutely delicious.
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Makes 14 scones
Ingredients:
Flour/ Maida-2 cups
Salt-1/2 tsp
Baking Powder-1 tsp
Baking Soda-1/4 tsp
Sugar-1/3 cup
Dried Cranberries-1/2 cup
Cold Butter-1/2 cup
Sour Cream-3/4 cup
Milk-1/4 cup
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 175°C.
In a bowl mix together flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
Grate chilled butter directly into the flour.
Rub the butter into the flour with your finger tips.
Add cranberries, sour cream and milk and bring the dough together.
Do not knead it. Just press it to form a crumbly dough.
Take small portions of the dough, flatten it and arrange on a baking tray.
Bake in the preheated oven for 30 – 35 minutes or until the top is golden.
Serve warm with butter and jam.
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Eggless Cranberry Scones
Ingredients
Ingredients
- Flour/ Maida-2 cups
- Salt-1/2 tsp
- Baking Powder-1 tsp
- Baking Soda-1/4 tsp
- Sugar-1/3 cup
- Dried Cranberries-1/2 cup
- Cold Butter-1/2 cup
- Sour Cream-3/4 cup
- Milk-1/4 cup
Instructions
Procedure
- Preheat oven to 175°C.
- In a bowl mix together flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
- Grate chilled butter directly into the flour.
- Rub the butter into the flour with your finger tips.
- Add cranberries, sour cream and milk and bring the dough together.
- Do not knead it. Just press it to form a crumbly dough.
- Take small portions of the dough, flatten it and arrange on a baking tray.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 30 - 35 minutes or until the top is golden.
- Serve warm with butter and jam.
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Those scones are sinfully delicious!!! yum yum yummy!!
Lovely Gayathri. Loved all your bakes. Will be coming back to your recipes often.
Those dried cranberries add a sweet punch to these scones.
I like the addition of cranberries in scones. Looks delicious
Can I use yogurt instead of sour cream…thx
You can Jagruti..
they look very nice gayathri, cranberry tastes great with slight tangy and slight sweet flavor in it…the recipe i follow calls for addition of cream of tartar as well…but i see no diff from pictures atleast
I can happily start my day with this scones, those cranberries gives a beautiful touch to those simple scones.
I m totally in love with scones after making them for this BM!! They are perfect as breakfast/snack!! 🙂
Those scones are so perfect and makes me to drool..
Scones look good. The shape doesn’t matter, this shape is actually looking good.
These scones look very tempting.
Looks very good and such simple recipe..
Aren’t these scones delicious to bite into .. Well done :))
I love making scones and your cranberry scones look flaky and delicious. I also like the rustic round shapes.
I love this recipe and love how you have grated the butter before incorporating into the flour. I am yet to bake scones and I am really looking forward to baking these.
Tempting scones.
These scones awesome Gayathri. Bookmarked one more:)
I have yet to try making scones, these look so nice and flavorful.
Mmmm! These are amazing scones. I love these a lot.