Apricot White Chocolate Scones Food

WHITE CHOCOLATE APRICOT SCONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425°F. In large bowl, mix flour, 1/4 cup sugar, the baking powder and salt. Cut in butter, using pastry blender or crisscrossing 2 knives, until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Stir in apricots and baking chips. Stir in egg and just enough half-and-half so dough leaves side of bowl and forms a ball.
• Place dough on lightly floured surface. Knead lightly 10 times. Pat or roll into 8-inch round on ungreased 12-inch pizza pan or cookie sheet. Cut into 8 wedges; do not separate. Sprinkle with additional sugar.
• Bake 16 to 18 minutes or until golden brown. Carefully separate wedges; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Serve warm if desired.

APRICOT AND WHITE CHOCOLATE SCONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F. Lightly grease cookie sheet with shortening or cooking spray. In large bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in butter, using pastry blender (or pulling 2 table knives through ingredients in opposite directions), until mixture looks like fine crumbs.
• Reserve 2 tablespoons apricots for topping. Stir remaining apricots and 1/3 cup vanilla baking chips into crumbly mixture. Stir in egg and just enough half-and-half so dough leaves side of bowl and forms a ball.
• On lightly floured surface, knead dough lightly 10 times. Pat or roll into 8-inch round on cookie sheet. Cut into 8 wedges, but do not separate.
• Bake 14 to 16 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet; carefully separate wedges.
• Place melted baking chips in small resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut off small corner of bag; pipe small amount of melted chips over scones. Sprinkle with reserved 2 tablespoons apricots. Pipe remaining melted chips over scones. Serve warm or cool.

WHITE CHOCOLATE APRICOT SCONES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• 2. Stir together first 4 ingredients. Slice butter into small pieces and cut into dry ingredients.
• 3. Mix egg, cream and vanilla, and add to dry ingredients. Knead in fruit, nuts and chocolate. Knead just until incorporated about 6-8 times. Less time kneading is better.
• 4. Pat into 9 inch circle on greased cookie sheet. Score into 8 wedges.
• 5. I brush a little egg/cream mixture on top and sprinkle with coarse sugar before baking. Bake for 15-20 minutes.

EASY SWEET APRICOT SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 220c/400F/Gas mark 7 and line a large baking sheet with baking parchment or a silicon mat.
• Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, ground almonds and sugar together in a large mixing bowl.
• Add the butter to the dry ingredients if using your fingertips quickly rub it in until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Or add the grated butter, if you popped it in the freezer beforehand.
• Fold in the chopped apricots.
• Add in the beaten egg, almond extract and half of the milk. Then fold everything together using a round ended knife. Gradually add the remaining milk until you have a soft dough. You may not need all of the milk.
• Turn the dough out onto a well-floured surface and briefly knead to bring it all together.
• Pat out or roll until the dough is about 3 centimetres thick. Using a 7 centimetre round cutter, stamp out your scones and place them on your baking sheet, brushing the tops with a little milk.
• Bake in the centre of your oven for 15-20 minutes until golden.
• Transfer to a wire rack to fully cool down.
• Scones are best eaten on the day of baking but kept in an airtight tin they should keep well for 3 days.

WHITE CHOCOLATE ALMOND SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut butter into flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt with a pastry blender until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
• Stir in one egg, almond extract, and half and half. (Can add more half and half if the dough isn't coming away from the bowl.)
• Add white chocolate chips and almonds. I find it easiest to mix the dough with my hands.
• Take the dough in your hands and form 8 large balls. Set the balls on an ungreased cookie sheet. They don't have to be smooth -- the dough will be sticky to work with.
• Brush scones with egg white.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
• Immediately remove from the cookie sheet and cool on a cooling rack.

APRICOT, WHITE CHOCOLATE AND PECAN SCONE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the pastry flour, bread flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Using a pastry cutter or 2 knives, cut the butter into the flour mixture until it is the size of peas. Stir in the cream until just combined. Fold in the pecans, apricots and white chocolate.
• Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Fold the dough over itself 3 to 4 times to create layers. Pat the dough into a 1-inch thick circle and cut into 12 wedges. Transfer the scones to a baking sheet, brush with cream and sprinkle with sugar.
• Bake until the scones are golden brown and feel firm to the touch, 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer the scones to a wire rack to cool completely.

APRICOT WHITE CHOCOLATE SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• In large bowl cut together butter, flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt until mixture is crumbly.
• Stir in apricots and white chocolate chips.
• Add eggs, half& half and vanilla so dough forms a ball.
• Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead lightly 10 times.
• Divide dough into two equal portions.
• On greased baking sheets pat each portion of dough into an 8" circle, and cut each circle into 8 wedges.
• Sprinkle with sugar if desired.
• Bake about 15 minutes, until golden.
• Serve warm.