Devious Tea Scone Recipe

This is my recipe for the MOST devious tea scones EVER to exist. When I tell you that the moment I sunk my chompers into these delectable little biscuits… I couldn’t recommend this recipe enough.

How to serve:

You can most definitely refrigerate these scones and microwave them for around 15-20 seconds on a weak setting. These are pretty plain alone, so I’d suggest you spread some jam & butter on them to get that tart taste!

Ingredients:

250g cake flour

30g sugar

5g baking powder

1g salt

80g butter 

3g hojicha powder/loose leaves

60g milk 

1 egg

Recipe:

1. Mix in your dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, hojicha) into a bowl until all ingredients are evenly mixed.
2. Cut your butter into small pieces and put into the dry bowl. Begin to rub the butter into even smaller pieces with the powder. You want to rub in all the butter until the mix looks like fine crumbs. This’ll be a bit of a messy process!
3. Mix 60g milk with an egg in a separate bowl. Do this until the mixture becomes a light yellow colour. 
4. Pour little bits of the milk and egg mixture into your dry mix to slowly form a dough. You won’t need to use all of the milk and egg mixture. Just stop adding it when it forms a dough that isn’t too chalky but it shouldn’t be WET and STICKY. 
5. Remember to save the milk and egg mixture for later! Store it in the fridge.
6. Take the dough and wrap in saran wrap so that all of its sides are covered. Shape the wrapped dough into a semi-flat square-like shape, then pop it in the refrigerator to let cool for an hour. 
7. Preheat the oven to 180C. 
8. After an hour of cooling, take the dough out of the fridge and unwrap it, then, on baking paper and a baking tray, cut the dough into 4 pieces by cutting it horizontally and vertically. Place the pieces a bit farther apart. Then, take the milk and egg mixture from earlier and brush it on all sides of the dough.

9. Pop the tray into the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
10. Take them outta the oven and let cool or eat STEAMING HOT. Though, this isn’t a method on how to get first degree burns on your tongue or something so I’m not liable for you but thanks for reading.