The scones are Scottish sweet rolls indispensable in breakfasts and snacks. They are very simple to prepare and they accept numerous side dishes, both sweet and savory. The traditional ones have a round shape, but it is also common to find them with a triangular shape.
Today we prepare strawberry scones, but you could substitute this fruit for another both fresh and candied. It will take less than an hour to make them, so if you start doing it right now, tomorrow you will have a delicious breakfast prepared to start the day. Do you dare to follow our step by step?
Strawberry scones
Scones are typical Scottish sweet rolls. Today we prepare a version with fruit: strawberry scones; ideal for breakfast or a snack.
Author Maria
Recipe type: Dessert
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Ingredients
- 45 g. brown sugar
- 1 egg + 1 for brushing
- 65 ml. whole milk
- 250 g. Of flour
- 12 g. baking powder
- 65 g. cold butter in cubes
- 1 teaspoon vanilla paste
- 35 g. chopped strawberries
To decorate (optional)
- 100 g. icing sugar
- 2 tablespoons of cream
Preparation
- We preheat the oven to 200ºC.
- We mix the milk well with the egg and brown sugar. We booked.
- In a bowl we mix the butter with flour and yeast. We do it by pinching the ingredients until we get a kind of crumbs.
- We add the strawberries and the vanilla and mix.
- Finally we incorporate the reserved liquid mixture and we mix just enough so that the ingredients are integrated.
- Flour the work surface and with the palms of the hands we are spreading the dough making a circle 2-3 centimeters thick.
- We cut the dough As if it were a pizza, in portions, and we place these on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- Brush each of the portions with beaten egg and bake for 10-12 minutes, until they take color.
- We remove from the oven and after 10 minutes we pass the scones to a grid so that they finish cooling down.
- Then, we prepare the glaze beating the icing sugar with the cream until obtaining a dense texture but with which we can decorate the scones by dropping dough on them.
- Once decorated they will be ready to eat.