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Delicious, Light, and Buttery Fruit Scones that are perfect for Afternoon Tea – Serve with Jam & Clotted Cream for a Classic Treat!
I love afternoon tea, and I LOVE scones. I have always been slightly obsessed with them, especially when I go down to Cornwall on holiday as they just seem to be that much better.
You guys also seem to love a scone just as much as I do! For example my Lemon and Blueberry Scones, cheese scones, and my White chocolate and Cranberry Scones. They alway manage to get such a better reception than I anticipate and it surprises me every time!
MyClassic Buttery Sconeshave always been a popular recipe to go to, especially on weekends such as Father’s day and Mother’s day, and I have wanted to post another delicious recipe in a while. I did also post mywhich proved to be popular as they were ‘different’.
I have wanted to post my alternative to myClassic Buttery Sconesfor a while as I have made them countless times, but they’re always gone before the photos could be taken!
With this recipe, a couple of little things changed. I obviously added in the sultanas to make them fruit scones!I increased the milk just slightly, and the same with the butter, and it makes the perfect difference because of the addition of the Fruit.
The risk of adding dried fruit is that it can dry out, but the extra little touch of butter & milk has prevented that. Admittedly, my scones never look perfect, but why should they? It proves they’re homemade!
I always always always serve my scones with clotted cream. I then either add in fresh strawberries for example, or jam, but clotted cream is a MUST. I use Rodda’s clotted cream because it’s just perfection, and suits a fresh scone ideally.
I tend to lean towards strawberry jam, but any flavour will work! Whether you put jam then cream, or cream then jam is the million dollar question… but hey! I do one of each to keep both sides of the battle happy! These are such a classic recipe, yet so easy and fun to bake for all the family. Hope you love them!
Fruit Scones
Delicious, Light, and Buttery Fruit Scones that are perfect for Afternoon Tea - Serve with Jam & Clotted Cream for a Classic Treat!
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Category: Afternoon Tea
Type: Scones
Keyword: fruit
Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cooling Time: 30 minutes minutes
Total Time: 1 hour hour
Servings: 8 scones
Author: Jane's Patisserie
Ingredients
- 100 g unsalted butter (cubed)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 350 g self raising flour (plus extra for dusting)
- 50 g caster sugar
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 190 ml whole milk
- 1 tsp vanilla bean extract
- 125 g sultanas
- 1 medium egg (beaten, to glaze)
Grams - Ounces
Instructions
Heat the oven to 220ºC/200ºC Fan/430F and place a lined baking tray in the oven to preheat.
Tip the self raising flour, sea salt, baking powder and cubed unsalted butter into a food processor and pulse until it resembles bread crumbs.
Pour the mixture into a bowl and stir in the caster sugar. Alternatively, rub the butter into the flour mixture until breadcrumbs are formed.
Then add the lemon juice to the dry mixture!
Heat the whole milk in the microwave or on the hob so its warm but not hot. (Microwave will take about 30 seconds – you don’t want it too hot!)
Add the vanilla bean extract to the whole milk andmix.
Make a well in the dry mixture and add the liquid. Stir with a spatula as it will be very wet at first – but it’ll soon dry out as the liquid is incorporated.
Fold/kneadthrough the sultanas until even.
Dust your work surface with some flour and tip the dough onto it.
Fold the dough over a few times so it is smooth, but don't over work it!
Roll the dough out until it is about 4cm thick.
Dipa 5cm round cutter into the spare flour and cut out the scones – you will probably get four out of the first go! Repeat this again till you finish up all the dough!
Take the tray out of the oven carefully and place the scones onto it.
Brush the tops with the beaten egg so it's glazed.
Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
Leave to cool slightly when baked, and enjoy!
Notes
- You could easily make this mix and use a smaller cutter so that the scones are more delicate which I often do – I then usually get 12 out of the mix then!
- I often find these are delicious when still warm as it makes them lighter and fluffier – however they do last in an airtight container for 2-3 days, or freeze for up to 3 months! You can reheat them in the microwave or oven!
ENJOY!
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