Lemon Curd And White Chocolate Filled Scones Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 6 and grease a large baking tray. In a large bowl, rub the flour, 1⁄4 tsp salt and the butter together with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the caster sugar and lemon zest, and stir with a cutlery knife. Mix together the buttermilk and milk. Make a well in the centre of the flour mix and add the liquid. Use your cutlery knife to combine the mixture as a soft dough, but don't overmix or the scones will be heavy.
• Tip onto your work surface and pat the dough out to a 2.5cm thickness. Use a 7cm cookie cutter to stamp out the scones. Don't twist as you cut, as this will stop the scones rising to their full potential. Any scraps of dough can be gently pushed back together to make more scones. Place the scones on the baking tray and bake for 10-12 mins until golden, then transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool.
• Mix the icing sugar with enough lemon juice to make a thick but runny icing. Drizzle over the scones, then scatter with the crushed sugar cubes and lemon zest. Leave to set for 10 mins, then enjoy with clotted cream and jam.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Lightly spray one cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray.
• Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a large mixing bowl.
• Cut in cold butter with a pastry blender or with 2 criscrossing knives, until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
• Stir in buttermilk, ginger and white chocolate chips (or chunks) until dough leaves side of bowl and forms a ball.
• Divide dough in half.
• Place half of dough on prepared cookie sheet; use a little bit of flour to make it easy to pat or roll into a 7-inch circle.
• Spread lemon curd over dough to within 1/2-inch of edge.
• Again use a little bit of flour to pat or roll remaining dough into a 7-inch circle; gently place over lemon curd.
• Gently pinch edges to seal.
• Sprinkle top with coarse white sugar, if desired.
• Cut surface of dough into 8 wedges, making cuts 1/4 inch deep (do not cut into lemon curd).
• Bake in preheated 400 degree F oven for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown.
• Let cool for 5 minutes before drizzling melted white chocolate over top.
• Topping:.
• Melt white chocolate and drizzle over top of scones in a zig-zag design.
• Cut scones into wedges.
• Serve warm or at room temperature.
• Store scones in an airtight container at room temperature.
• *Note:.
• Melting Chocolate.
• Melt chocolate in the top of a double boiler over hot, not boiling, water (too high a temperature changes the flavor and color).
• Speed up melting by first cutting the chocolate into small pieces, so that more surface area is exposed to the heat.
• Stir chocolate constantly while melting to keep the temperature consistent throughout.
• TIPS: Make sure the melting pan does not touch the water in the bottom pan or it will become too hot.