These heart-shaped scones are jam packed with juicy berries and they’re just perfect for treating that special someone on Valentine’s Day. Do you have any fabulous Valentine’s recipes of your own? Share them in the comments section – I’d love to see them!
The scones are more on the savoury-side, which makes them ideal for loading up with butter, jam, Nutella, peanut butter or whatever sweet topping tickles your fancy.
The drizzle you can see on these scones is just melted white chocolate – it didn’t come out as thick as I intended!
It really depends on the size of your cutter how many scones this recipes yields. Using a large cutter, I managed to make 4 scones.
Ingredients
200g plain flour
100g self-raising flour
4 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
75g unsalted butter, softened
70g caster sugar
1 egg
100ml cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 handful of mixed berries
A few drops of pink food colouring
Recipe
1. Preheat oven to 200C and lightly grease a baking sheet.
2. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Add the butter and rub in with your fingers until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar.
3. If you’re using fresh berries, simply stir them into the mixture. If you’re using frozen berries, make sure they’re fully defrosted then dry them really well before mixing them in.
4. Separately, beat the egg and cream together with the vanilla extract and a few drops of pink food colouring. Pour this into the flour mixture and bring together with your hands until it forms dough.
5. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead very briefly to form a smooth ball.
6. Gently roll the dough out to a thickness of about 4cm. Use a heart-shaped cutter to cut out the scones and place them on the baking sheet.
7. Brush the tops of the scones with milk, making sure the milk doesn’t flow down the side, and bake for about 20 minutes until risen.