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Treacle Scones with Apple Sauce & Clotted Cream
Emily Davenport
8 servings
20 minutes
272
British
baking
Gently spiced treacle scones served with apple sauce and clotted cream taken from the Dairy Diary 2023.
For more recipes like this, check out the Dairy Diary recipe collection.
Ingredients
- Self-raising flour 350g (12oz), plus extra for dusting
- Baking powder 1 tsp
- Mixed spice 1 tsp
- Golden caster sugar 4 tbsp, plus extra for dusting
- Butter 75g (3oz), cubed
- Treacle 3 tbsp
- Milk 125ml (4fl oz), plus extra for brushing
- Apple sauce and clotted cream to serve
Directions
Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°fan/Gas 6 and grease and line a baking sheet
- Put flour, baking powder, spice, sugar and a pinch of salt in a bowl, then rub in butter until crumbs
- Thoroughly mix together treacle and milk and add to dry ingredients, kneading to a soft sticky dough
Turn out onto a floured surface and roll out to a 2cm (¾in) thickness
- Stamp out 6-8 cm (about 3in x 2in) rounds, rerolling the dough once
- Place on prepared baking sheet
- Brush each scone with extra milk and sprinkle with sugar
- Put in the oven and bake for 18-20 minutes until risen and golden
- While still warm, slice in half and serve with a dollop of apple sauce and clotted cream.