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Cherry Scone Recipe

Created by: Sarah Mock
Cherry Scones with white Chocolate and pistachios
prep time15 minutes
cook time15 minutes
total time30 minutes
Makes 8 scones

Ingredients

Cherry Scones

  • 1 ¾ Cup (218 ¾ g) Flour, All Purpose
  • 3 tablespoon (3 tablespoon) Sugar
  • 2 ½ Teaspoon (2 ½ Teaspoon) Baking Powder
  • ½ Teaspoon (½ Teaspoon) salt
  • ⅓ Cup (75 ⅔ g) Butter (chilled)
  • 1 (1) Egg
  • ¾ Cup (103 ½ g) tart cherries (seeded)
  • 1 tablespoon (1 tablespoon) Flour, All Purpose
  • 2 tablespoon (2 tablespoon) milk

Garnish

  • 3-4 tablespoons (3 tablespoons) pistachios
  • ½ Cup (90 g) white chocolate chips

Instructions
 

  • Pre heat oven to 400°
  • Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a medium size bowl.
    1 ¾ Cup Flour, All Purpose, 3 tablespoon Sugar, 2 ½ Teaspoon Baking Powder, ½ Teaspoon salt
  • Cut the chilled butter into flour mixture with a pastry blender until it resembles fine crumbs.
    ⅓ Cup Butter
  • Stir in egg.
    1 Egg
  • Cut tart cherries in half and toss into a small bowl with 1 tablespoon flour.
    ¾ Cup tart cherries, 1 tablespoon Flour, All Purpose
  • Add cherries to mix and gently incorporate into dough.
  • Place the dough on a cookie sheet and form it into a flat 8” circle.
  • Use a knife dipped in flour to cut 8 wedges, by cutting across horizontally, then across vertically, then across diagonally. Do not separate the dough.
  • Bake 15-18 minutes, check at 15! When scones are fully cooked, remove to a cooling rack, separating them.

Make the Glaze

  • Melt white chocolate in microwave or double boiler (which is easy to make with a pan filled with water and a dish of white chocolate slowly heating.
    ½ Cup white chocolate chips
  • Chop pistachios.
    3-4 tablespoons pistachios
  • When scones are cooled, drizzle white chocolate over scones and immediately sprinkle with pistachios.
  • Serve and enjoy!

Notes

Why is there flour coating the cherries?
This helps prevent the cherries from sinking to the bottom of the dough while baking.
How can I fix the dough if it is too stiff?
Add milk if needed, 1 tablespoon at a time, kneading the dough in the bowl until it is no longer sticky, approximately 10 times.
The white chocolate coating is too thick. How do I fix it?
To make the white chocolate more of a drizzle, add 1 teaspoon solid coconut oil or solid crisco that has been melted. Do not allow water to mix with white chocolate or it will seize and become very hard.

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