Best Simple Scones Recipes

SIMPLE SCONES

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• In a medium bowl, mix flour, 1/3 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Grate butter into flour mixture on the large holes of a box grater; use your fingers to work in butter (mixture should resemble coarse meal), then stir in raisins.
• In a small bowl, whisk sour cream and egg until smooth.
• Using a fork, stir sour cream mixture into flour mixture until large dough clumps form. Use your hands to press the dough against the bowl into a ball. (The dough will be sticky in places, and there may not seem to be enough liquid at first, but as you press, the dough will come together.)
• Place on a lightly floured surface and pat into a 7- to 8-inch circle about 3/4-inch thick. Sprinkle with remaining 1 tsp. of sugar. Use a sharp knife to cut into 8 triangles; place on a cookie sheet (preferably lined with parchment paper), about 1 inch apart. Bake until golden, about 15 to 17 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes and serve warm or at room temperature.

SIMPLE SWEET SCONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425°F (220 Celsius).
• Put flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl; stir mix well Add butter and cut in with a pastry blender or rub in with your fingers, until the mixture looks like fine crumbs.
• Add sugar; toss to mix.
• Add milk and stir with a wooden spoon until dough forms,(the dough may be a bit crumbly).
• Place dough on floured counter and knead gently until the dough comes together in a ball.
• Pat or roll into a circle about 1 1/2 inches thick.
• cut each circle into 6 or 8 wedges.
• place wedges on a greased cookie sheet- slightly apart for crisp sides, touching for soft.
• Bake about 12 minutes, or until medium brown on top.

SIMPLE GOLDEN RAISIN SCONES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• 2. Beat buttermilk (or skim/soy/lemon mixture) with the egg in a small bowl.
• 3. In a mixing bowl, mix together the baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and flour.
• 4. Cut in butter until no large chunks of it remain.
• 5. Mix in sugar.
• 6. Add raisins and mix until they are fully coated with the flour mixture.
• 7. Add milk and egg mixture and mix until dough is moist. (it may appear a bit dry).
• 8. Place dough onto floured surface and knead a few times.
• 9. Split dough into 2 circles and place them onto a cookie sheet, pressing them down until they're about 1-2 inches thick.
• 10. Using a knife, score the tops of the circles to make 4 wedges.
• 11. Sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon topping onto dough.
• 12. Bake for 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into them comes up dry.

MUM'S SIMPLE ECONOMY SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 250C
• Sift flour and salt in a bowl.
• Rub in the butter with your fingertips, until it resembles breadcrumbs.
• Make a well, and add almost all of the milk.
• (Reserve about a tbs) With a butter knife, quickly work in the milk to the flour, making a dough.
• On a lightly floured surface, knead the dough very lightly.
• Flatten gently with your hands to 1.5cm thick
• Use a round cutter to cut out discs.
• On a buttered tray place scones next to each other.
• Brush with reserved milk.
• Bake for 10 minutes, or until scones sound hollow when tapped.
• Serve with tea, whipped cream and strawberry jam and you have Devonshire tea.
• Or add herbs/grated cheese for savoury scones to serve with soups and casseroles.

SUPER SIMPLE SCONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Mix together flour, sugar, baking soda and
• cream of tartar.
• Cut in butter to half a pea size, as for pie dough.
• Beat eggs slightly with milk.
• Mix egg mixture into flour mixture with fork only until dough begins to leave sides of bowl.
• Divide dough into two parts with a fork, right in the bowl.
• Sprinkle some flour, about 1 to 2 tablespoons, onto one corner of cookie sheet.
• Dump half the dough onto that floured corner and shape into a five-inch circle.
• You might have to sprinkle some flour on top of dough circle.
• Cut with a knife into 8 pie shaped wedges.
• They will be small but don't worry about it because they'll expand while baking.
• Dip the knife in some of the flour if needed so it doesn't stick to dough.
• Arrange the cut pieces on the other end of cookie sheet, four pieces to a row.
• Repeat with other half of dough and arrange those cut pieces on the half of the cookie sheet you worked on.
• Bake at 375 degrees F. about 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.
• Makes 16 pieces.

YUMMY AND SIMPLE BLUEBERRY SAUCE (GOES WITH MY BLUEBERRY SCONES!

Steps:

• Blend the blueberries and lemon juice in your blender.
• Then fold the sugar and lemon zest into the blueberry/lemon juice mixture.
• Pour into a saucepan and heat on medium (stirring constantly) until it comes to a boil.
• Serve with my Simple & Yummy Blueberry Scones (Recipe #59337) or use it on whatever else you think it will taste good with!
• ENJOY!

SIMPLE SWEET SCONES

Steps:

• 1. Heat oven to 425°F (220 Celsius). Put flour, baking powder, sugar and salt into a large bowl; stir mix well Add butter and cut in with a pastry blender or rub in with your finger, don't over work some butter bits are ok.
• 2. Add milk and stir with a fork until dough forms. You may need a little more milk depending on the moisture in your flour.
• 3. Form dough into a ball and turn smooth side up. Pat or roll into 2 6 inch circles. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon and sugar,cut each circle into 6 or 8 wedges. place wedges on an ungreased cookie sheet- slightly apart for crisp sides, touching for soft.
• 4. Bake about 12 minutes, or until medium brown on top and bottom.
• 5. Serve warm with jam , whipped cream, butter - what ever combination you like
• 6. Variation - as you're almost done mixing the dough add in some chocolate chips 1/2 -2/3 cup is plenty - I skip the cinnamon if I do this but that's up to you.

SIMPLE SCONES

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 200C and line baking tray with paper.
• Combine all ingredients together in a large bowl and mix well.
• Knead together until a soft dough and turn onto a floured board.
• Roll dough out to about 3cm thick and cut scones with a scone cutter.
• Place on tray and brush with egg and milk mixture.
• Cook in oven for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.

SIMPLE CINNAMON SCONES

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 425.
• Combine flour, powdered sugar, baking powder, salt, and 1 tsp cinnamon in a large bowl.
• Pour milk into mixture, and stir together with a fork.
• Add softened butter, and knead the butter gently into the dough with your hands until dough is soft (add more flour if it's too sticky).
• Place dough on a floured surface, and flatten until it is a 1 1/2-inch disk. Use a glass to cut out rounds, and place them on a greased baking sheet. If you want, you can soften a bit more butter, brush it over the rounds, and sprinkle with a mixture of 1 tsp cinnamon and 1 tsp sugar.
• Bake for about 10 minutes, until lightly golden. Serve with anything, especially blueberry jam.

SIMPLE AND YUMMY BLUEBERRY SCONES

Steps:

• First preheat oven to 425°F.
• Then take out a large baking sheet and grease it; set it aside.
• In a large bowl, you will need to combine your flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and allspice.
• Cut your butter into flour mixture with pastry knife (or a fork if you don't have one - you can even use your hands) making sure to cut it through until it looks crumbly.
• Now you will need to make a well in the center of this mixture and add the milk.
• Beginning stirring mixture, then add your blueberries, and finish stirring until dough forms.
• If you feel that it is not forming well, you can always add a tiny bit of milk to make it all come together, but be careful not to add much more milk, and do NOT overwork the dough.
• Now you must form the dough into one large round (like a ball), and flatten it out into a 10 inch disk.
• With a sharp knife, cut the dough into 10 wedges; you can do so by cutting it exactly as you would cut a pie!
• Slide disk of scone wedges on to baking sheet sheet (not necessary to separate at this time). Brush tops with cream, and sprinkle sugar over the cream.
• Bake scones for 15 minutes, or until golden brown.
• Remove from baking sheet when done, and cut the wedges where you made your cuts earlier.
• Serve warm with my blueberry sauce or with butter and honey!
• You can even eat them plain!

PLAIN AND SIMPLE CHEESE SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to gas mark 6/ 200 C/ 400 F. Grease a baking tray and dust with flour to stop the scones from sticking.
• Rub together flour, salt and butter until the consistency of fine breadcrumbs.
• Mix in the grated cheese until evenly distributed throughout the flour mixture.
• Add the milk in 4 stages, as you may not need to use all of it. Once mixed together (it's best to use your hands!), form the dough into a ball and pat into a circle.
• Roll out the dough to about 2 cm thick, then cut out your desired shapes. Place on your prepared baking tray and brush the tops with milk.
• Place on the top shelf of the oven and bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown. Best eaten fresh from the oven!

SIMPLE MICROWAVE SCONES

Steps:

• 1. In a bowl combine all dry ingredients 2. Cut in butter until it resembles soft bread crumbs (like Panko) 3. Add milk and quickly stir to form a dough 4. Lightly flour a surface and press into a round 5. Cut into four pieces and place on a microwave safe plate. I recommend that Pam or oil be LIGHTLY applied to the plate before dough is added. 6. Microwave on high 2-3 minutes. Fin

SIMPLE SCONES

Steps:

• 1. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. 2. In a medium bowl, mix flour, 1/3 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Grate butter into flour mixture on the large holes of a box grater; use your fingers to work in butter (mixture should resemble coarse meal), then stir in raisins. 3. In a small bowl, whisk sour cream and egg until smooth. 4. Using a fork, stir sour cream mixture until large dough clumps form. Use your hands to press the dough against the bowl into a ball. (The dough will be sticky in places, and there may not seem to be enough liquid at first, but as you press, the dough will come together.) 5. Place on a lightly floured surgace and pat into a 7- to 8-inch circle about 3/4-inch thick. Sprinkle with remaining 1 tsp. of sugar. Use a sharp knife to cut into 8 triangles; place on a cookie sheet (preferably lined with parchment paper), about 1 inch apart. Bake until golden, about 15 to 17 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes and serve warm or at room temperature. -Footnotes- ~Cranberry-Orange Scones~ Follow the recipe for Simple Scones, adding a generous tsp of finely grated orange rind (zest) to the dry ingredients and substituting dried cranberries for the raisins. ~Lemon-Blueberry Scones~ Follow the recipe for Simple Scones, adding a generous tsp of finely grated lemon rind (zest) to the dry ingredients and substituting dried blueberries for the raisins. ~Cherry-Almond Scones~ Follow the recipe for Simple Scones, adding 1/2 tsp almond extract to the sour cream mixture and substituting dried cherries for the raisins.