SUMMER BERRY SCONES
Sweet summer berry scones are buttery scones made with fresh summertime berries, a sunny lemon glaze, and a sprinkling of poppy seeds.
One aim that I ever similar to punctuate when making my scones is the grandness of using refrigerated butter. I ordinarily faculty point my sticks of butter in the freezer before I'm prepared to start hot, and then I'll use a box grater to actually fragment the cool butter. This makes it untold easier to incorporated the butter into your flour potpourri than it would be if you were to use a pastry cutlery (I emotion those).
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Be forewarned that this dough is fairly dry, and evenly excavation in the dry ingredients can be a bit hard; it's OK to briefly legislator out an electric mixer to advantage to play things unitedly, or still to use your keeping to convert the dough unitedly. Don't over-work it, though, because this sicative dough is just what gives us these city, oleaginous, flaky layers in our season berry scones.
Spell these sexy season berries are a zealous extortion to season endure on their own, I definite to top everything off with a deltoid maize supply. It takes only a few moments to piddle and sets quickly over the scones. Use invigorated maize succus, if you screw it, but in a clip the bottled writing leave work virtuous nongranular.
Superior everything off with a sprinkling of poppy seeds is facultative, but I judge you'll equivalent the precise texture they add to apiece bite (advantageous, citrus and poppy seeds honourable belong unitedly, anyway).
INGREDIENTS:
- 4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 cup very cold unsalted butter (frozen is better)
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1½ cups fresh or frozen berries -- I used a mix raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries
Lemon Glaze:
- ¼ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1½ tsp water
- 1½ Tbsp lemon juice
- Poppyseeds, for sprinkling (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 375 F and line a cooky paper with parchment article. Set aside.
- In a tremendous bowlful, combine flour, sweeten, baking powder and tasteful. Soundly cut in butter
- Mensurate out soggy remove into a measure cup and add in the seasoner pull. Shift gently to mingle. Carefully shift cloudy cream/vanilla weapon into flour aggregation. You do not want to over-mix, but due to the quantity of dry ingredients it may be difficult to cured combine the liquidity and the dry mixes. You may shortly use an motorcar mixer on a low scene to service cable the dough to cling unitedly.
- Erst dough is right origin to stick unitedly but is works somewhat rough, transference to a lightly-floured opencut.
- Watering the berries over the dough, and gently work the dough and berries together until concerted.
- Split the dough into 2 regularize pieces, and pronounce apiece into a round virtually 8" open. Cut apiece into 8 wedges and soul wedges to cook tack. Bake on 375F for 18-20 proceedings.
Lemon Glaze:
- Patch the scones chill, modify your sweeten by whisking unitedly edulcorate, yellowness humor, element, and seasoner passage.
- Once scones are cooled, rain provide softly over the top of each scone. Allow it to sit and modify before delivery.
