Scones - Red, White and Blue

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 Tbsp. sugar
  • 1 Tbsp. baking powder
  • 1/4 tea. salt
  • 5 Tbsp. butter, cut into small pieces and chilled
  • 1/2 cup fresh blueberries
  • 1/2 cup fresh chopped strawberries
  • 1 egg
  • 3/4 cup cold heavy cream, plus extra cream to brush the tops
  • 1 tea. vanilla
  • Turbinado sugar, for sprinkling
  • 1/2 cup white chocolate chips, melted, for drizzling

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment.

Whisk the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Drop in the butter, and using your fingers, toss to coat the pieces of butter with flour. Using your fingers or a pastry blender, cut and rub the butter into the dry ingredients. You will have some small pea-size pieces of butter, and this is fine. Gently stir in the blueberries and strawberries.

Lightly dust work surface with flour and turn out the dough. Pat the dough into a circle., Gently roll out the dough. You want toe dough to be about 1" thick. Cut the dough into star shaped or rounds using a cookie/biscuit cutter. Place the3 scones on the prepared baking sheet about 2" apart.

Lightly brush the scones with cream and sprinkle with turbinado sugar.

Bake for 12-14 minutes or until golden brown. Transfer to a rack and cool to room temperature. Once cooled, drizzle each scone with white chocolate and let stand until it's dry.