Vegan Sweet Scones Recipe
Recipe adapted from: https://emilycooksvegan.com/2012/05/28/summery-scones/
Summer is here! Yipppeee!! I mean *dies from the heat*. I am currently very very pregnant and the weather is melting me. MELTING!!
So it was half term and I had a sudden urge to bake. Trying to find something easy that my 4 year old and I could make. I am NOT a natural baker! When I was very young I used to bake constantly, and was pretty good at it! As I grew older I completely forgot how to bake, and now I am vegan I have to relearn everything anyway!
Esme's dad was round so we all had a go, Esme is actually incredibly good at following the steps!! I was very impressed :) :)
I did alter a few of the ingredients as having pregnancy brain I did indeed forget some of the ingredients!! Here it is anyway :) :)
Ingredients
- 350g Self Raising Flour
- Pinch of Salt
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- 85g Vegan Margarine
- 3 Tablespoons Caster Sugar (I used maybe 2.5, I hate using the full amount of sugar in any recipe!!)
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract ( I forgot this, d'oh!!)
- A good squeeze of lemon juice * This doesn't make it particularly lemony, if you want it super lemony I would add the zest*
- 175ml of Soy Milk ( I used rice milk)
- 85g Dried Fruit (I used Sultanas)
What you need to do!
- Preheat the oven to 220 degrees (I just used the highest setting possible)
- Grab a mixing bowl, pour in the flour, baking powder and salt, then add the marg. Get your 4 year old to rub in the margarine to the flour mixture until it is a crumb like consistency. Or all over the floor.
- Pour in the sugar and fruit and mixxx!! Or squish together in this case!!
- Make a well in the middle of the mixture. Pour in the milk, vanilla and lemon and stir. In the recipe it says stir with a metal knife. In this case Esme squashed the mixture together with her hands, stopping every now and again to taste the dough.
- Tip the mixture onto a surface and knead the dough into a ball. By this time Esme was more interested in eating the dough so dad stepped in!
- Divide the dough into rounds, place on baking tray (with baking parchment - absolute washing up life saver!!)
- Brush with a little melted marg
- The recipe now says to bake for 10-15 minutes, which I would recommend trying first if you don't have a weird oven like mine. However, my oven took 35 minutes, and I had to flip the scones over to make sure they were cooked all the way through. If in doubt poke a fork in the middle to see in the middle is still uncooked. I have the worst oven ever..
- Take out the oven when cooked, put some delicious vegan cream and jam on, we had no cream so I just had marg and jam.
Finally, try and stop your 4 year old licking every single scone before anyone else has tasted them. ENJOY!
