Dried Fruit and Ginger Scones

Ready in : 45 mins

Dried Fruit and Ginger Scones is an European breakfast. This recipe makes 8 servings with 273 calories, 5g of protein, and 11g of fat each. For 50 cents per serving, this recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It is brought to you by Foodista. This recipe is liked by 55 foodies and cooks. Head to the store and pick up baking powder, turbinado sugar, cake flour, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes. Taking all factors into account, this recipe earns a spoonacular score of 28%, which is rather bad.

Ingredients

baking powder

1 tbsp

butter

5 tbsp

cake flour

1 cup

candied ginger

0.25 cup

apples

0.25 cup

cranberries

0.25 cup

flour

1 cup

heavy cream

0.25 cup

salt

0.5 tsp

turbinado sugar

4 tbsp

milk

0.75 cup

Cooking in Steps

1
Position a rack in the middle of your oven and preheat to 425F. If you will be baking on a pizza stone, put it in the oven to preheat as well. If you will be using a cookie sheet, line it with parchment paper and set it aside.

cookies

baking paper

baking sheet

pizza stone

oven
2
Whisk together the flours, baking powder, 3 TB of the sugar, and salt in a medium bowl.

baking powder

sugar

salt

whisk

bowl
3
Cut in the butter using a pastry blender, two knives, or your fingers, until the largest chunks of butter are the size of small peas.

butter

peas

blender
4
Pour in the cream and milk (or just use all cream, if you have it) and mix it around with a fork until an evenly hydrated, extremely sticky dough forms.

cream

dough

milk
5
Add the fruits and mix again until evenly distributed (you may have to work a bit to break up the ginger pieces).Dump the sticky mass out onto a well-floured board.

fruit

ginger
6
Sprinkle a little flour on top as well, then pat the dough out into a circle about 1-inch thick. Try not to add too much flour, lest they become dense and tough. Dip a pizza cutter or other thin, sharp knife into flour, then cut the circle into 8 equal sized pieces. You may need to scrape off and re-flour your slicing instrument between slices.Using a bench scraper, a thin spatula, or (if you are brave) your hands, relocate your 8 scones to your prepared baking vessel, spacing them a half inch or so apart (they will puff and rise a little bit, but not tremendously).

dough

all purpose flour

dough scraper

pizza cutter

spatula

knife
7
Sprinkle the tops with the remaining 1 TB of sugar.

sugar
8
Bake for 13-15 minutes, or until lightly golden on top and cooked through.Cool at least 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack. Eat warm or cool.

wire rack

oven