Pineapple scones.
You can cook Pineapple scones using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Pineapple scones
- Prepare of Makes 12 medium scones.
- You need of plain flour.
- You need of cream of tartar.
- You need of bicarbonate of soda (or 2 tsp baking powder instead of the two).
- Prepare of salt.
- You need of caster sugar.
- It’s of double cream plus 1 tbsp. for brushing.
- Prepare of pineapple juice plus 1 tbsp. for brushing.
- You need of little Demerara or palm sugar to sprinkle.
Pineapple scones step by step
Stir the flour, cream of tartar, soda, salt and sugar together in a large bowl..
Mix the cream with the juice in a jug and pour into the flour mix gradually, stirring it with a spoon (or use a standing mixer with a paddle attachment on low setting)..
Turn the shaggy dough out onto a floured surface and knead gently a few times, so that it comes together. Flatten it down to a disc about 2cm thick..
Cut the scones with a 5cm (2 in.) round cutter or similar; press the cutter down without twisting..
Place the scones in a deep baking tray lined with parchment..
Let them stand for 15 minutes while you preheat the oven to 200C/400F/gas 6..
Mix together the extra 1 tbsp. of cream and juice and brush the tops of the scones. Sprinkle them with palm or demerara sugar..
Bake for 15 minutes until coloured on top, cool in the tray for 5 minutes and then take them out onto a wire rack..
