White chocolate and lavender scones
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.
