Strawberries and Cream Scones – Baker by Nature

If you happen to love baking with recent strawberries, strive these strawberries and cream scones! The strawberry scones are moist, buttery, and golden brown. And the candy cream glaze enhances the flavour of the recent strawberries. My household loves this scrumptious scone recipe!

Recent Strawberry Scones

My children are obsessive about recent strawberries! So these recent strawberry scones are on heavy rotation in our home. They’re delicate and fluffy and exploding with juicy bites of recent strawberries in each chew. I make them a minimum of twice a month… and at all times retailer just a few within the freezer for when a craving strikes.

Candy, fruity, buttery perfection in each chew. Heat from the oven, with a hearty drizzle of vanilla cream, and a sizzling cup of espresso… there’s actually no higher option to begin a morning!!!

Strawberry Scone Elements

• All Goal Flour: Be sure you weigh the flour or calmly spoon it into the measuring cup. Utilizing an excessive amount of flour will yield dry scones.
• Salt: A small quantity enhances the flavors within the scone recipe and helps stability sweetness.
• Baking Powder: Helps the scone dough rise within the oven.
• Baking Soda: Helps the scone dough unfold within the oven.
• Granulated Sugar: Sweetens the scone dough and enhances the recent strawberry taste.
• Unsalted Butter: Creates flaky layers within the scone dough. Be sure you use very chilly butter! Chilly butter is king on the subject of making scones.
• Eggs: Be certain that your eggs are chilly, not heat and even at room temperature.
• Milk: Entire milk will create the richest tasting scones. Be certain that it’s chilly and never at room temperature.
• Heavy Cream: Aka whipping cream. You additionally need this to be chilly, not room temperature.
• Vanilla Extract: Use actual vanilla extract, not synthetic vanilla.
• Recent Strawberries: I don’t counsel utilizing frozen strawberries as a result of they usually include extra moisture that can make the scones watery.
• Confectioners’ Sugar: Aka powdered sugar, is used for the creamy glaze.

Scone Combination Resembles a Coarse Meal

This recipe meeting is fairly easy and easy.

1. You’ll start by combing the dry substances in a big bowl. This flour combination contains your baking soda, flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
2. You then’ll work within the chilly butter with a pastry cutter, pastry blender, or two forks. You need to maintain working it in till it resembles a rough meal.

It ought to look one thing just like the the picture on the precise (above). I do know it’s not a reasonably image… however hopefully it’s useful one!

When you full this, add the milk, cream, and egg. You’ll gently fold these liquid substances into the dry ones, creating your scone dough. Don’t over combine right here! The dough must be fairly shaggy (see pictures under)!

Then it’s time to bust out these recent strawberries.

Chop your recent strawberries into quarters for finest outcomes. I examined this recipe thrice and located a bigger strawberry minimize to yield essentially the most scrumptious outcomes. In case you have additional massive strawberries, be happy to chop them into smaller items.

The way to Form the Dough

Whenever you dump the scone combination out onto your calmly floured work floor, it’s going to be a free and shaggy mess. Don’t panic! I promise it is going to come collectively will just a bit elbow grease and endurance. However you may need to maintain a small bowl of water close to by to moist your fingers, this helps keep away from an excessive amount of stickiness.

See? Only a few straightforward kneads and also you’ll have a manageable dough at your fingertips. If you happen to can’t get the dough to come back collectively after 3 to five minutes, add slightly extra heavy cream. Begin with a tablespoon at a time; you don’t need moist or extremely pliable dough!

Use a really massive knife to chop the dough into 8 triangles. Then place them on the ready baking sheet lined with parchment paper. And pop them within the oven! You’ll bake them till they’re golden brown.

Prepare in your dwelling to odor superb! As a result of when these scones are in your oven, wafts of vanilla and swirls of strawberry can be dancing by your kitchen. It’s a luxurious to be savored and loved.

The way to Retailer Strawberry Scones

These Strawberries and Cream Scones are finest eaten the identical day they’re baked! However in the event you’d wish to make them final an additional day or so, do this trick:

1. Line the underside of a giant storage container with a paper towel.
2. Place the absolutely cooled scones on high of the paper towel, in a single layer.
3. Then add an hermetic lid. Retailer at room temperature for as much as 3 days.
4. Whenever you’re able to eat them, preheat the oven to 400 levels and heat for a couple of minutes. Simply don’t over bake them, or they’ll dry out and style crumbly.

Can I Freeze Strawberry Scones?

Sure! This strawberry scone recipe freezes nice for as much as 2 months! Whenever you’re able to take pleasure in, merely thaw in a single day within the fridge then warmth them up, cowl with glaze, and revel in! I at all times have just a few of those in my freezer for a fast morning deal with.