SMALL BATCH SCONE RECIPE RECIPES

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• In a medium bowl, mix flour, 1/3 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Grate butter into flour mixture on the large holes of a box grater; use your fingers to work in butter (mixture should resemble coarse meal), then stir in raisins.
• In a small bowl, whisk sour cream and egg until smooth.
• Using a fork, stir sour cream mixture into flour mixture until large dough clumps form. Use your hands to press the dough against the bowl into a ball. (The dough will be sticky in places, and there may not seem to be enough liquid at first, but as you press, the dough will come together.)
• Place on a lightly floured surface and pat into a 7- to 8-inch circle about 3/4-inch thick. Sprinkle with remaining 1 tsp. of sugar. Use a sharp knife to cut into 8 triangles; place on a cookie sheet (preferably lined with parchment paper), about 1 inch apart. Bake until golden, about 15 to 17 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes and serve warm or at room temperature.

Steps:

• Mix wet ingredients in a medium size bowl until thoroughly combined.
• Measure dry ingredients in a small bowl or into the bowl of your food processor.
• Add cold, cubed butter and pulse food processor a few times until combined.
• Add wet ingredients to bowl of food processor. Pulse until combined. The mixture will form a ball.
• Turn dough out onto a piece of parchment paper. Pat dough into a circle about five to six inches wide and about a half inch deep.
• Wrap and chill for several hours or overnight.
• When ready to bake preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Unwrap dough.
• Slice round of dough into eight wedges. Once down the middle and once across and on a diagonal twice.
• Bake on a parchment lined baking sheet for 18 to 20 minutes. Scones will burn easily. Pay attention to how they smell and check them after 15 minutes.
• Let cool on a wire rack for five minutes.
• Make glaze by stirring confectioner's sugar and heavy cream until a desired consistency is reached.
• Glaze cooled scones by dipping into the glaze or spooning glaze over the top of each scone.
• Enjoy with cups of coffee or hot tea.