Recipe: Appetizing Butter Scones

Butter Scones.

You can have Butter Scones using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Butter Scones

1. You need of plain flour.
2. It's of baking powder.
3. You need of salt.
4. You need of butter (cold and cut into pieces).
5. You need of caster sugar.
6. Prepare of dried fruit (optional).
7. It's of egg.
8. You need of milk.

Butter Scones instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan/gas 4..
2. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Add the butter and rub in using you fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar and dried fruit..
3. Lightly whisk the egg with the milk and add to the flour mixture. Stir well until the mixture comes together to form a slightly sticky dough, then tip out onto a floured surface..
4. Using floured hands lightly knead the dough then using a floured rolling pin roll out the dough until it is 2 cm thick. Cut out shapes using a pastry cutter and carefully transfer them to a baking tray..
5. Brush the tops of the scones with a little milk and bake for 12-15 mins until lightly browned. Remove from the oven and transfer the scones to a cooling rack..