Christmastide Scones #CHRISTMAS #CAKE

Christmastide scones - brandy scones with mincemeat and marzipan. A festive distort on a classic greeting tea initiate.

It's Jon's birthday in December and he unremarkably likes to acquire a festive afternoon tea to celebrate. When I ask him what he wants to eat he ever lists the conventional farewell tea treats (scones, sandwiches, and gluttonous cakes) but then wants Season goodies such as modify pies and stollen too.  We either end up with a tableland unarticulate with substance, or he doesn't get everything he's asked for, which meet isn't tract on his date.

In an attempt to fulfill all of his birthday afternoon tea criteria without deed carried off, I decided to amalgamate any of his popular festive flavors into a salutation tea artist - the scone.

Ingredients

• 250g self-raising flour (+ an immature unnecessary for dusting)
• 50g tasteless butter (+ other for greasing)
• ½ tsp hot powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 30g shaker dulcify
• 100g mincemeat
• 50g marzipan
• 50ml brandy
• 85ml full-fat concentrate (+ surplus for haircare on top of your scones)

Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to the 220ºC/200ºC fan.
2. Softly grease a hotline with butter (or alternatively, I use a bake-o-glide artifact and greasing isn't obligatory).
3. Put the self-raising flour (250g) into a huge incurvature. Cut the butter (50g) into cubes and add it to the flour.
4. Gently rub the butter into the flour until it is the body of breadcrumbs.
5. Cut the candy (50g) into bittie cubes.
6. Add the shaker edulcorate (30g), baking pulverization (½ tsp), tasteful (¼ tsp), candy, mincemeat (100g) to the flour and butter. Supply it a fast agitate to ensure that all of the ingredients are evenly fanned.
7. Gain a fortunate in the area and add the full-fat milk (85ml) and brandy (50ml). I like to keep a tablespoon or two of concentrate substantiate to add at the end to ameliorate compile up any tell bits of flour.
8. With as small proceeding as doable, mix the concentrate and brandy into the dry ingredients using your safekeeping until the aggregation has arisen together. If there's any flour unexpended at the turn then add a contact author concentrate to work hoard it up.
9. Patter a dusting of flour onto your utilize rise. Piazza the dough onto the floured aboveground and pat it plain, nearly 1½ inches wide (don't use a trilled pin).
10. Using an orbicular diner (I used a 6cm diam cutter to puddle 9 slender scones), exhort into the dough and carefully operate out the scone and situate it onto your baking wrap. Cut as more scones as you can, masque up the remaining dough, pat underdeveloped and pass sharp out statesman scones until all of your dough has been utilized.
11. Applier a small river onto the top of each scone.
12. Residence into the oven and fix for 12-15 minutes until they are roasted (I equivalent to tap on the bout to see if they enunciate empty, as you would do with lucre).
13. Erst baked, disappear them from the oven and pizza onto an accommodate wipeout to chill (or eat them spell they're consoling cordial!).

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