I adore Scones
When I'm old, I will own a B&B with a rose garden and lavender field. And everyday, I'd potter around baking scones and serving it with clotted cream and homemade berry jam...
My favourite scones come from Bakers Delight, a local aussie bakery chain. Pam and I squeal in delight each time we pass by it, inhaling the sweet, salty, grainy aroma of bread, pastries and scones. She's in love with the white chocolate and blueberry scones, bursting with blueberries, sometimes they look a bit monstrous. I like to go with the less sweet option, the choc banana scones.
So anyway, one day I decided to try my hand at baking my own scones because I was desperately craving for it. Chocolate and banana of course!
It's a really simple recipe, and I know it's not the prettiest of all pictures, but you've got to try it! These scones were so so so addictive, my housemate was craving for more. Plus you don't have to eat it with cream because the chocolate and banana makes it flavourful. This recipe is taken from my favourite recipe site of all time, allrecipes.com with a couple of changes here and there.
Chocolate Banana Scones (adapted from all recipes.com)
230g Sour cream (1 cup)
1 teaspoon baking soda
500g all purpose flour (4 cups)
200g white sugar (1 cup)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon salt
225g butter
1 egg
3 bananas mashed
1/2 cup of chocolate, chopped
1) Preheat oven to 175 degrees C.
2) In a small bowl, blend sour cream and baking soda together.
3) In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
4) Cut in the butter.
5) Stir in the sour cream mixture and egg into the flour mixture until softened.
6) Fold in the mashed banana and chopped chocolate.
7) Turn out dough onto lightly floured surface and knead briefly.
8) Roll out dough, and using a cookie cutter, cut pieces out of the dough and place them on a baking sheet. (If you're lazy like I am, you can just use teaspoons and dig out golf ball sizes of batter and place them on the baking sheet, works really well too!)
9) Bake 12-15 minutes in the preheated oven until the scones are golden brown at the bottom.
Have fun you guys and surprise your lovely mummies and grannies with a wonderful devonshire cream tea set!
My favourite scones come from Bakers Delight, a local aussie bakery chain. Pam and I squeal in delight each time we pass by it, inhaling the sweet, salty, grainy aroma of bread, pastries and scones. She's in love with the white chocolate and blueberry scones, bursting with blueberries, sometimes they look a bit monstrous. I like to go with the less sweet option, the choc banana scones.
So anyway, one day I decided to try my hand at baking my own scones because I was desperately craving for it. Chocolate and banana of course!
It's a really simple recipe, and I know it's not the prettiest of all pictures, but you've got to try it! These scones were so so so addictive, my housemate was craving for more. Plus you don't have to eat it with cream because the chocolate and banana makes it flavourful. This recipe is taken from my favourite recipe site of all time, allrecipes.com with a couple of changes here and there.
Chocolate Banana Scones (adapted from all recipes.com)
230g Sour cream (1 cup)
1 teaspoon baking soda
500g all purpose flour (4 cups)
200g white sugar (1 cup)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon salt
225g butter
1 egg
3 bananas mashed
1/2 cup of chocolate, chopped
1) Preheat oven to 175 degrees C.
2) In a small bowl, blend sour cream and baking soda together.
3) In a large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
4) Cut in the butter.
5) Stir in the sour cream mixture and egg into the flour mixture until softened.
6) Fold in the mashed banana and chopped chocolate.
7) Turn out dough onto lightly floured surface and knead briefly.
8) Roll out dough, and using a cookie cutter, cut pieces out of the dough and place them on a baking sheet. (If you're lazy like I am, you can just use teaspoons and dig out golf ball sizes of batter and place them on the baking sheet, works really well too!)
9) Bake 12-15 minutes in the preheated oven until the scones are golden brown at the bottom.
Have fun you guys and surprise your lovely mummies and grannies with a wonderful devonshire cream tea set!