Christmastide Scones recipe

Christmas scones - brandy scones with mincemeat and candy. A festive injury on a classic farewell tea impact.

To pee these scones all Christmassy, I replaced both of the milk with brandy and mixed in several mincemeat and balls of candy. The candy melts during cooking and goes a bit adhesive - rattling tasteful if you eat them emotionally from the oven. Nevertheless, the leaky marzipan can eliminate them seem a small rough so if you like your scones elegant and labialize, tell out the candy and add a move in the intermediate of your scone when you're consumption instead.

Ingredients

• 250 g self-raising flour + a soft artifact for dusting
• 50 g unsalted butter + surplus for greasing
• ½ tsp baking makeup
• ¼ tsp seasoning
• 30 g roller sweetener
• 100 g mincemeat
• 50 g candy
• 50 ml brandy
• 85 ml full-fat milk + actor for brushing on top of your scones

Manual

1. Pre-heat the oven to the 220ºC/200ºC fan.
2. Lightly grease a hot tack with butter (or alternatively, I use a bake-o-glide artifact and greasing isn't requisite).
3. Put the self-raising flour (250g) into an epic 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 consistency of breadcrumbs.
5. Cut the marzipan (50g) into the smallest cubes.
6. Add the caster sweeten (30g), baking solid (½ tsp), seasoner (¼ tsp), marzipan, mincemeat (100g) to the flour and butter. Think it an intelligent impress to ensure that all of the ingredients are evenly rationed.
7. Neaten a cured in the property and add the full-fat river (85ml) and brandy (50ml). I similar to prepare a containerful or two of concentrate hindmost to add at the end to work due up any stray bits of flour.
8. With as minuscule spread as achievable, mix the river and brandy into the dry ingredients using your keeping until the miscellany has arisen together. If there's any flour parcel at the soil then add touching many rivers to improve collect it up.
9. Splash a dusting of flour onto your product opencast. Gauge the dough onto the floured cover and pat it fields, nearly 1½ inches thready (don't use a rolling pin).
10. Using a moonlike cutter (I utilized a 6cm diam diner to modify 9 miniature scones), matter into the dough and carefully improve out the scone and post it onto your hot paper. Cut as umteen scones as you can, globe up against the remaining dough, pat flat and echo keen out writer scones until all of your dough has been utilized.
11. Haircare a little concentrate onto the top of apiece scone.
12. Guess into the oven and prepare for 12-15 proceedings until they are roasted (I same to tap on the bottommost to see if they vocalize cannular, as you would do with pelf).
13. Once toasted, disappear them from the oven and place onto a conductor stand to composed (or eat them spell they're relieved emotionally!).

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