Homemade Cranberry Scones
Soft, flaky and buttery homemade cranberry scones
Ingredients
Scones
- 2 cups cake flour
- 2 Tbsp castor sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 130 g unsalted butter (cold)
- ½ cup dried cranberries
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 2 XL eggs
- 1 Tbsp water
- 1 tsp milk
Icing Glaze
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 2 Tbsp milk
- ½ tsp vanilla essence
Instructions
For Scones
- Preheat over at 180ºC and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt together.
- Grate in butter and work with fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs.
- In a separate bowl whisk 1 egg, buttermilk and water together.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients.
- Add cranberries and use a rubber spatula to fold in until all ingredients are combined.
- Knead lightly in the bowl until it forms a soft dough.
- Lightly flour a clean surface and turn out dough onto surface.
- Shape dough into a 20cm circle and cut into triangle shapes.
- Prepare egg wash by whisking the remaining egg with a teaspoon of milk.
- Place triangle cut outs onto baking tray and brush with egg wash.
- Bake for 15 minutes until golden.
- Allow to cool.
For Icing Glaze
- Combine icing sugar, milk and vanilla essence and stir until smooth.
- Drizzle over scones.