White chocolate and lavender scones

September 9, 2015 (Last Updated: January 11, 2019)

White chocolate and lavender scones

Serves: 12 scones
Cooking Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

  • 1 quantity of scone mixture OR 40g (¼ cup) butter, cubed
  • 280g (2 cups) self-raising flour, sifted
  • a pinch of salt
  • 5ml (1 tsp) organic dried lavender, crushed
  • 60ml (¼ cup) white chocolate chips
  • 1 large egg
  • 200ml fresh pouring cream
  • WHITE CHOCOLATE GANACHE GLAZE
  • 100g white chocolate, chopped
  • 50g butter
  • 50ml fresh pouring cream

Instructions

1

Preheat the oven to 180°C and grease a baking tray.

2

Rub butter into the flour and salt, and add lavender and white chocolate chips.

3

Whisk the egg and cream together and pour into the dry mixture. Use a knife to ‘cut in’ the mixture until it comes together.

4

Tip the mixture out onto a floured work surface and gently flatten or roll out. 5 Cut out scones with a pastry cutter andplace on the baking tray. Brush the tops with extra cream and bake until risen and golden, about 15 minutes.

5

For the ganache glaze, place the ganache ingredients in the top of a double bowl and stir until the chocolate has melted and the mixture forms a smooth glaze. Do not boil.

6

Spread over the scones and serve.

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