These are actually scones but for practical reasons I mixed the ingredients in a large bowl and form the dough with hands. That's why the end products looked like cookies. The original recipe calls for apples & raisins but at one occasion I used strawberries and raisins. This has become a new favorite of my family!
Apple Scones
Ingredients:
380 gr flour
1 tsp baking powder
110 gr butter, at room temperature
80 gr icing sugar
1 egg
100 ml sweetened condensed milk
2 apples, diced
75 gr raisins
1 egg yolk, beaten
Method
- Sift together flour and baking powder onto a clean surface. Push flour outwards o form a 25 cm round wall.
- Place butter in the center. Add icing sugar and mix well with fingers. Add egg and mix well.
- Add milk slowly and mix well with the butter mixture and flour to form dough. Add diced apples and raisins and mix well.
- Roll out dough to 2 cm thickness. Stamp out rounds with a 5 cm cookie cutter. Arrange on a greased baking tray spaced well apart. Brush with beaten egg yolk.
- Bake in an oven preheated to 200°C/400°F for 15 minutes. Cool on wire racks.
It's perfect for a tea party or just to accompany your quality time at afternoon tea .
