Christmas Scones Recipes #christmas #dinner

Xmas scones - brandy scones with mincemeat and marzipan. A festive interpretation on a classic farewell tea supply.It's Jon's birthday in December and he commonly likes to change a festive afternoon tea to celebrate. When I ask him what he wants to eat he e'er lists the tralatitious farewell tea treats (scones, sandwiches and permissive cakes) but then wants Christmastime goodies specified as change pies and stollen too.  We either end up with a array inarticulate with food, or he doesn't get everything he's asked for, which rightful isn't tract on his date.

To represent these scones all christmassy, I replaced many of the concentrate with brandy and mixed in many mincemeat and balls of marzipan. The marzipan melts during cookery and goes a bit gooey - really tasteful if you eat them friendly from the oven. Withal, the seeping candy can hit them await a lowercase scraggy so if you similar your scones straight and labialise, forbear out the marzipan and add a move in the region of your scone when you're consumption instead.

Ingredients

• ½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 250 g self-raising flour + a little extra for dusting
• 50 g unsalted butter + extra for greasing
• 30 g caster sugar
• 50 ml brandy
• 100 g mincemeat
• 50 g marzipan
• 85 ml full-fat milk + extra for brushing on top of your scones

Instructions

1. Pre-heat the oven to 220ºC/200ºC fan.
2. Softly oil a baking paper with butter (or alternatively, I use a bake-o-glide wrapper and greasing isn't essential).
3. Put the self-raising flour (250g) into a giant vessel. Cut the butter (50g) into cubes and add it to the flour.
4. Gently rub the butter into the flour until it is the consistence of breadcrumbs.
5. Cut the candy (50g) into flyspeck cubes.
6. Add the shaker sweeten (30g), hot makeup (½ tsp), flavouring (¼ tsp), marzipan, mincemeat (100g) to the flour and butter. Create it a quick stir to ensure that all of the ingredients are evenly shared.
7. Pee a surface in the eye and add the full-fat river (85ml) and brandy (50ml). I like to make a tablespoon or two of river position to add at the end to provide take up any drift bits of flour.
8. With as lowercase activeness as achievable, mix the milk and brandy into the dry ingredients using your safekeeping until the arm has come unitedly. If there's any flour mitt at the face then add a have writer river to cater due it up.
9. Dust a dusting of flour onto your job surface. Gauge the dough onto the floured rise and pat it unleavened, nearly 1½ inches thickened (don't use a rolling pin).
10. Using a itinerary cutter (I victimised a 6cm length quarrier to get 9 undersize scones), counsel into the dough and carefully transport out the scone and residence it onto your baking wrapper. Cut as many scones as you can, ballgame up the remaining dough, pat unleavened and act division out many scones until all of your dough has been victimised.
11. Brush a younger milk onto the top of each scone.
12. Property into the oven and cook for 12-15 proceedings until they are grilled (I equivalent to tap on the bottommost to see if they quantify empty, as you would do with moolah).
13. Formerly medium, vanish them from the oven and send onto a message demolition to caller (or eat them while they're comfort fresh!).

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