Thursday, January 24, 2008

Apple Scones

applescones

I don't know about you, but I like to have a slightly more luxurious breakfast on the weekends. Maybe something hearty like bacon and scrambled eggs, an omelette or frittata, perhaps pancakes, or simply some nice, warm-from-the-oven bread. These scones are real easy to put together, but will definitely add that special touch to a breakfast. They're delightfully crumbly and very apple-y. I love them with a fairly sharp cheese, and a slice of smoked turkey.

Apple Scones
Makes 6 large scones

150 g white flour
100 g wholemeal spelt flour (or regular wholewheat)
50 g sugar
2 tsk baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
75 g butter
1 apple, coarsely grated (no need to peel it beforehand if you don't want to)
1 egg

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Mix all the dry ingredients. Add the butter, cold and diced, and pinch with your fingertips until well distributed. Or use a food processor - that's what I generally do.

Add the egg and the apple, and quickly shape into scones. You can use a muffni tin (well greased!) if you don't want to make them free-form.

Bake at 200°C for about 10-12 minutes, or until they are cooked through and lightly golden.

Recipe in Swedish:
Äppelscones

11 Comments:

Blogger daphne said...

Sweet! I try to cook something up for breakfast on weekends but usually I'm too lazy and roll over to sleep instead. LOL.

Those scones look wonderful! and apple scones-that's something different.

9:40 AM  
Blogger Cinnamonda said...

Nice recipe! I will definitely try this.

7:30 PM  
Anonymous Christina said...

Ah! Love scones. So simple and yet so good. Perfect for a weekend breakfast.

8:38 PM  
Blogger Annemarie said...

Scones - wonderful. Apple scones - sound even better. Apple scones with cheese and turkey - get me into the kitchen so I can make me some.

11:41 PM  
Anonymous Linn said...

The scones look nice and crumbly on the outside and they are perfect that way! Then you know they aren't too dry. I have never made apple scones, but I certainly feel like trying these out now...

5:10 AM  
Blogger Katie said...

Ohh yum. These sound perfect for a weekend breakfast. Wish I could ahve one now, maybe tomorrow hey. Thanks for the inspiration.

7:38 AM  
Anonymous Sorina said...

Oh definately going on my must try list!!! Sounds yummy!!!

1:11 PM  
Blogger kellypea said...

I've been eyeing those bags of spelt in Whole Foods lately. This looks like a perfect recipe to give it a try. Thanks!

12:16 AM  
Anonymous amy said...

Hi Anne - I am a newcomer to your blog and have been enjoying it. This scone recipe has had my mouth watering for days, so I thought I'd try it out on this snowy Sunday. And I can't believe you made this recipe work without adding milk or cream! Please let me know if there's an error. I used two smallish juicy apples but even then there wasn't nearly enough liquid (including the egg) to make a dough. So I added milk (not sure how much) quickly to try to get the right consistency, and then they needed an extra 5 minutes or so to bake. The good news is the scones turned out beautifully (we had them with ham and 4-year-old Canadian cheddar). Very yummy!

6:30 PM  
Blogger Anne said...

Amy, that's weird! I do indeed make them without any additional liquid, the egg seems to be plenty to get me a really sticky dough - anything more and it'd be liquid! Strange! But glad they turned out tasty anyway :)

6:47 PM  
Blogger BigAndiD said...

Hi Anne,

These were very tasty, made a nice change to my normal breakfast.

One small question though, mine seemed a little on the crumbly side, is there something i have done wrong?

10:06 AM  

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