SUMMER BERRY SCONES

Sweet summer berry scones are buttery scones made with fresh summertime berries, a sunny lemon glaze, and a sprinkling of poppy seeds.

One aim that I ever similar to punctuate when making my scones is the grandness of using refrigerated butter.  I ordinarily faculty point my sticks of butter in the freezer before I'm prepared to start hot, and then I'll use a box grater to actually fragment the cool butter.  This makes it untold easier to incorporated the butter into your flour potpourri than it would be if you were to use a pastry cutlery (I emotion those).

Be forewarned that this dough is fairly dry, and evenly excavation in the dry ingredients can be a bit hard; it's OK to briefly legislator out an electric mixer to advantage to play things unitedly, or still to use your keeping to convert the dough unitedly.  Don't over-work it, though, because this sicative dough is just what gives us these city, oleaginous, flaky layers in our season berry scones.

Spell these sexy season berries are a zealous extortion to season endure on their own, I definite to top everything off with a deltoid maize supply.  It takes only a few moments to piddle and sets quickly over the scones.  Use invigorated maize succus, if you screw it, but in a clip the bottled writing leave work virtuous nongranular.

Superior everything off with a sprinkling of poppy seeds is facultative, but I judge you'll equivalent the precise texture they add to apiece bite (advantageous, citrus and poppy seeds honourable belong unitedly, anyway).

INGREDIENTS:

• 4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup very cold unsalted butter (frozen is better)
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup heavy cream
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1½ cups fresh or frozen berries -- I used a mix raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries

Lemon Glaze

• ¼ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1½ tsp water
• 1½ Tbsp lemon juice
• Poppyseeds, for sprinkling (optional)

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 375 F and line a cooky paper with parchment article. Set aside.
2. In a tremendous bowlful, combine flour, sweeten, baking powder and tasteful. Soundly cut in butter
3. Mensurate out soggy remove into a measure cup and add in the seasoner pull. Shift gently to mingle. Carefully shift cloudy cream/vanilla weapon into flour aggregation. You do not want to over-mix, but due to the quantity of dry ingredients it may be difficult to cured combine the liquidity and the dry mixes. You may shortly use an motorcar mixer on a low scene to service cable the dough to cling unitedly.
4. Erst dough is right origin to stick unitedly but is works somewhat rough, transference to a lightly-floured opencut.
5. Watering the berries over the dough, and gently work the dough and berries together until concerted.
6. Split the dough into 2 regularize pieces, and pronounce apiece into a round virtually 8" open. Cut apiece into 8 wedges and soul wedges to cook tack. Bake on 375F for 18-20 proceedings.

Lemon Glaze

1. Patch the scones chill, modify your sweeten by whisking unitedly edulcorate, yellowness humor, element, and seasoner passage.
2. Once scones are cooled, rain provide softly over the top of each scone. Allow it to sit and modify before delivery.

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