Cherry Scones

Recipe from Secrets of a Restaurant Chef from FoodNetWork Channel. I always like to make scones as they are very easy to make and taste very good. The scones from this recipe are not dry but very flaky.




Dried Cherry Almond Scones

Recipe courtesy Anne Burrell


Ingredients
•3 cups all-purpose flour
•1 cup sugar
•1 tablespoon baking powder
•1 lemon, zested
•Pinch salt
•1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
•1 1/2 sticks cold butter, cut into pea size pieces
•1 cup dried cherries
•1/2 cup toasted sliced almonds
•1/2 cup heavy cream
•Turbinado sugar, for garnishing
•Honey Butter, recipe follows

Directions


Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

In a small bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, lemon zest, salt and cinnamon. Add in the butter and rub with your fingers (I cut the butter with a dough cutter) into the dry ingredients until a coarse meal forms. Add in the cherries and almonds(omitted by me). Add the heavy cream (I add more as 1/2 cup is not enough)and combine it into the butter flour mixture.

Form the dough into a 1-inch thick disk and cut it into 6 wedges (instead of cutting into wedges, you can cut with a cookie cutter). Sprinkle each wedge generously with the turbinado sugar. Transfer the wedges to a parchment-lined sheet pan and bake in the preheated oven for 17 to 18 minutes, turning the pan halfway through. Serve warm with Honey Butter.



Honey Butter:
•1/2 pint cold heavy cream
•2 tablespoons honey
•1 orange, zested

In a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, add all ingredients and whip on high speed until the cream starts to clump and turn light yellow. Continue mixing as butter forms and the buttermilk begins to separate out. Scrape sides and continue mixing until mixture is one lump of butter. Place butter into a clean container or serving dish and store in the refrigerator until ready to use.