Mandys sweet scones/biscuits. Biscuits and scones might look a lot alike — tall, flaky, golden brown. They're both made from a blend of flour, a leavening agent, fat, and a liquid. Put the scones on the baking sheet. Gather the dough trimmings, lightly knead and cut out the last scone. Brush each scone with extra beaten egg (egg-wash).
What are scones, after all, but slightly sweetened biscuits?
You can easily turn canned biscuits into scones by pressing dried fruit, oats and brown sugar, or chocolate chips into the dough before baking.
Also try drizzling a simple glaze (made with milk, vanilla, and powdered sugar) over them after baking to fancy.
You can have Mandys sweet scones/biscuits using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Mandys sweet scones/biscuits
- You need 350 grams of self raising flour.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 85 grams of cold cubed butter.
- You need 3 tbsp of caster sugar.
- Prepare 175 ml of milk.
- Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 1 of egg beaten to glaze.
- It's as needed of flour for roll dough.
Lu Ann, it is interesting how two things with nearly identical ingredients can be so different. I don't really knead either my biscuits or my scones, but if you would call the couple of "turns" I do kneading, I would say I knead the scone dough more than the biscuit dough. I like Nutritionist's recipes and tried them out, and was able to make. A scone is slightly dryer than a biscuit and yet, when done well, not dry at all.
Mandys sweet scones/biscuits step by step
- Heat oven to 200C/400F..
- Put flour, baking powder and cold butter into bowl, gradually mix until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- Stir in sugar, make a well in the dry ingredients then add milk and vanilla and mix well until formed into a dough balls..
- Put flour on a clean work surface and roll out dough to around 4cm thick, using a 5cm cookie cutter cut out a many scones as u can, with the remaining dough reform and continue to make scones until all the dough is used..
- Place on a baking tray and glaze the top with beaten egg and bake for 10 minutes and enjoy with cream jam or just butter and a cup of tea/coffee.
- Another version add one cup of dried raisin to make them into fruit scones.
Scones are intended to be consumed with a hot beverage of your choice after all. And clotted cream, or butter, or jam. While savory scones filled with various cheeses and herbs make for a delicious savory breakfast, sweet scones flavored with fruits and nuts are the most popular in the States. But whether you bake a batch of raspberry scones or take out a tray of steamy buttermilk biscuits, you are partaking in a long lineage of ever evolving American quick breads. I wanted a sweet biscuit, but found that the more sugar I used, the heavier they would be.