Easy As Pie Scones...so really there is no pie...

So yesterday was a busy day and when I came home I was in a nap frame of mind. Yet of course I had to remember my responsibilities and obligations. Darn you brain!! Yet thankfully what I had to do was an easy and enjoyable job- that of making my "claim to fame" scones. 

Think you can handle these?

MacADoodle's Scones:

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour (plus a little extra for rolling out the dough)

1/2 cup sugar

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

Zest of 2 lemons

5 Tbsp cold butter

1 cup cold heavy cream

The jam/ jelly of your choice

Step 1: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Combine four, sugar, baking powder salt, and lemon zest in a bowl. Whisk to combine.

Step 2: Cut the butter into 10 pieces and with a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the flour. It should remember course meal.

Step 3: Make a well in the center of the mixture and pour in the cold heavy cream. Stir to combine until it lifts off the sides of the bowl.

Step 4: Flour your kitchen counter and dump out the dough. Knead a few times until the dough is smooth and in a ball.

Step 5: Flour a rolling pin and roll out the dough to 1/4 an inch. 

Step 6: With a cookie cutter of your choice (I prefer heart shaped) cut out scones and place them on a parchment lined cookie sheet- 1 inch apart.

Step 7: Flour your fingers. Make indents in the centre of each scone and place a dime sized amout of jam In each of the indents. (I used blackberry but any jam/ jelly will work- lemon curd is amazing as well.)

Step 8: Place the scones in the oven and bake for 11 minutes or until the edges are golden brown. When done place the cookie sheet on a wire rack to cool the scones.

Step 9: When the scones are cool to the touch, ice them with the lemon icing which follows.

Step 10: Proceed to gorge yourself until you feel like the world is a better place and you pass out in a delightful diabetic coma.

Lemon Icing:

Ingredients:

Juice of 2 lemons 

2 cups of powdered sugar (more depending on the consistency)

1/2 vanilla extract

Pinch of salt

Mix everything together in a bowl with a whisk and drizzle over scones.