On Monday I had the day off so I went to the grocery store since my fridge was on the verge of empty. There was a sale on strawberries (BOGO!) so of course I stocked up. But then I realized, what the heck am I going to do with all these strawberries before they go bad? Bake, duh. So I looked up a recipe for strawberry scones which actually wasn't super easy since apparently all anybody wants is strawberry & cream scones. But I found one and it was delicious!
I will post the link for the full recipe at the bottom of the post as always. The ingredients are pretty straight forward, pretty much flour, butter, and strawberries.
Then I put the dough on my counter that had flour on and kneaded it a bit. You want to knead lightly so not to overwork the dough or smash any of the delicious fruit. I then formed the dough into a circle about 3/4 in. think (I didn't really measure, that is just what the recipe said!).
Then I cut the dough into eight triangles and laid them out on a lightly-greased cookie sheet. I made sure they were not too close to each other, but they also don't spread out too much when baking so it is not a huge deal if they are a little snug.
And then it is baking time! 15 minutes at first, then I took them out, sprinkled a little sugar on top (I went a little too haywire on the sugar) and then put them back in for about 8 minutes or until they are golden brown and bounce back a little when touched.
So basically these were awesome. Just pure delicious strawberry and scone. Really good and really not too hard. They took me less than an hour and were so good I had to have two once they were cool enough to eat!
Here is the link if you are interested (which you should be): http://confessionsoftart.blogspot.com/2009/03/strawberry-scones.html
That's all for now, I think I am going to make something else tomorrow night, although honestly I may be baking again instead of cooking!
-Liz
Looking (and tasting) good!
I will post the link for the full recipe at the bottom of the post as always. The ingredients are pretty straight forward, pretty much flour, butter, and strawberries.
First I cut up about a cup of strawberries (I used a little more than that). Sprinkled that with some of the sugar and put it to the side.
Then I mixed all the dry ingredients together. Pretty simple.
Next is the kind of hard part about making scones. Cutting in the butter. If you have a pastry cutter then you are set. Otherwise, like me, you use two knifes. Basically you cut the butter off the stick to add it in to the dry ingredients and then you just go to town on the mix cutting as much as you can to get the butter super small and entirely mixed with the dry stuff. Not too hard, but kind of annoying and takes a little while to do well.
Then I added the half and half and mixed until a dough started to form. I had to add a little more than was required in order to really make the dough stick together and not too dry. Then it is strawberry time!
Then I cut the dough into eight triangles and laid them out on a lightly-greased cookie sheet. I made sure they were not too close to each other, but they also don't spread out too much when baking so it is not a huge deal if they are a little snug.
And then it is baking time! 15 minutes at first, then I took them out, sprinkled a little sugar on top (I went a little too haywire on the sugar) and then put them back in for about 8 minutes or until they are golden brown and bounce back a little when touched.
So basically these were awesome. Just pure delicious strawberry and scone. Really good and really not too hard. They took me less than an hour and were so good I had to have two once they were cool enough to eat!
Here is the link if you are interested (which you should be): http://confessionsoftart.blogspot.com/2009/03/strawberry-scones.html
That's all for now, I think I am going to make something else tomorrow night, although honestly I may be baking again instead of cooking!
-Liz
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