Quick & Delicious Scones

I’ve been baking again…I find it satisfying. Having a simple recipe has helped demystify things that I love to eat that in my head seemed too challenging, too laborious to make. I am not the gal who wants to spend $50 on obscure ingredients to make something yummy at home. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE to go eat gourmet wonderful foods at fantastic restaurants …I just don’t have the time or the inclination to go on a scavenger hunt in gourmet food stores to buy rare herbs and oils to make a particular meal. So, our friend Chef Rodney (the chef and owner of The Peasant and the Pear in California) has helped me. He’s helped me by sharing simple recipes with ingredients from my pantry that are easily used to make something delicious.  

Scone Recipe, from Chef Rodney Worth

Ingredients:

2 1/2 Cups Flour

1 Cup Sugar

1 Stick Butter 1/4 lb.

1 Tablespoon Baking Powder

1 Egg

1 Teaspoon Salt

1 Cup Heavy Cream

Steps:

Put all dry ingredients in a food processor and mix for 10 seconds. 

Add egg and one stick of butter, cut up in 1/4 inch slices, mix for one minute.

Drizzle the cream in and mix until it becomes a ball of dough

Remove from food processor bowl and add to a regular bowl to hand mix the ingredients you would like to add (cranberry orange, jalapeño cheddar, blueberry, blackberry etc). 

If you don’t have a food processor, but you do have a stand up mixer, you can combine the dry ingredients and mix on low until combined.

Then, add the cubed butter and mix on medium for about 2 minutes and the ingredients should be combined and looks crumbly. Add the wet ingredients and mix on a higher speed for a few seconds to make the ingredients form a dough. A pouring shield makes this less messy, but it can be done without one.

Put in large muffin pan, should be six very large stones put in oven at 375 degrees for 25 minutes.

I used wild black berries ( a little more than 1 cup) and I didn’t have a large muffin pan, but I did have small loaf pans so I put some parchment in the loaf pans and made 8 scones which I baked for about 15 minutes. I also sprinkled a bit of raw sugar on the top before I baked them.  I did not own a food processor, so I went to Walmart and bought an inexpensive processor and it worked just fine! 

THEY WERE AMAZING! They were so good that I shared them with a friend. They were so good that I ate too many of them. They were so good I made them again with blueberries. The entire process took about 45 minutes…

These would be great to bake with children, because of the simplicity and deliciousness. I also think I would whip these up when I have guests in town because they’re perfect with coffee in the morning and make the house smell yummy when they come out of the oven.

Let me know if you try them! I would love to know what you think and if you used something other than berries in yours.