Baking hasn't really been in my schedule for some time but this weekend seems to be go go go! For a charity event I baked a couple of chocolatey things which sold out so fast I never even got to try it!
So after reading the latest GoodFood magazine I was keen to bake something for brunch over the bank holiday. It was the blueberry scones that caught my eye. They didn't look too hard to get my baking hands back on.
To start, the butter was rubbed into the flour, baking powder and lemon zest. Then the blueberries were mixed into the dry ingredients so they were fully coated to prevent them sinking.
In a separate jug, I whisked the eggs, cream and vanilla paste. This was poured into the dry ingredients and I kneaded this into a dough. Which really hurt my wrist, by the way. This started out fine but got mushier and wetter as it went on which led me to believe I'd over kneaded it and created extra moisture from bursting some blueberries.
I tipped this onto a prepped baking tray and squashed to approximately 2cm thick. It was too wet to cut up and bake the pieces separately so I used a bread knife coated in flour to cut roughly eight pieces and so the heat would get into the centre of the dough.
This needed slightly longer than suggested to bake, probably because it was mostly in one doughy lump, and arguably still wasn't done when I finally caved to hunger and took it out the oven. It was a little undercooked in places but I think that was mostly due to the burst blueberries. But it still tasted amazing. And a day later once it had cooled and set, it was just about perfect.
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