Dessert
Raspberry Lemon Scones
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- zest of two medium lemons
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, frozen
- 1 cup heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup fresh (or frozen) raspberries
- 1 cup confectioners’ sugar; sifted
- 2-3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a medium bowl, combine sugar and lemon zest and mix with your finger until the sugar is and fragrant.
- Add in the flour, baking powder and salt and mix together.
- Grate butter into flour mixture on the large holes of a box grater.
- Use a fork or pastry blender to work in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
- In a small bowl, whisk together cream, vanilla and lemon juice.
- Using a fork, stir the cream mixture into flour mixture until a dough starts to form.
- Gently fold in raspberries. The raspberries may break up a little, no worries because they’ll bake up beautifully.
- Gently use your hands to press the dough against the bowl into a ball. The dough will be quite sticky at first, but it will come together. Make sure not to over knead.
- Place the dough on a lightly floured surface and pat into a 7-inch circle about 1-inch thick.
- Use a knife to cut into 8 triangles; place on prepared baking sheet, about 1 inch apart.
- Bake until golden, about 15 to 20 minutes.
- Cool for 5 minutes and prepare the glaze.
- In a medium bowl, prepare the glaze by mixing together the melted butter, confectioners’ sugar, vanilla and lemon juice.
- Whisk until smooth.
- Dip the top of the scones in the glaze or drizzle the glaze onto your scones.
- You can thicken the glaze a bit with additional confectioners’ sugar.