Spring is here! When the weather begins to warm up I am ready to transition from soups and comfort foods to cooking and baking with fresh fruits and vegetables. These scones are springy and sweet – and so simple to make and delicious to eat!
You can use fresh or frozen raspberries. (The original recipe below, used strawberries. I was just a couple of tablespoons short of raspberries, so I put a few strawberries in too.) The lemon and raspberry flavors create sweet and tart flavorful scones and the poppy seeds add a slight crunch.
Start by whisking the dry ingredients and the liquid ingredients together.
Grate frozen butter into the flour mixture, using a box grater.
Combine the flour mixture and butter with a pastry cutter, two forks or your fingers.
Add the liquid ingredients and raspberries and gently mix together until everything is just moistened. Do not overmix.
You can shape the dough into a disk and cut into wedges or use a scone pan. Brush the scones with cream and sprinkle with coarse sugar and poppy seeds, if desired. The coarse sugar gives these scones a crisp sparkly crust and a sweet crunch. (I think next time, I will leave the poppy seeds off of the top, and just top with the coarse sugar.) Bake at 400 degrees for about 22-25 minutes. Cool for just a few minutes before icing.
While the scones are baking you can get the icing ingredients ready. Mix it up when you take the scones out of the oven.
Fresh from the oven, drizzle the lemon icing on the warm scones. That allows it to soak into the scones – mouthwatering!
Yum! Crunchy golden brown on the outside, tender and moist on the inside – bursting with sweet raspberry and tangy lemon flavors.
You can top with even more poppy seeds if you are a big poppy seed fan.
If you put a second layer of lemon icing on the scones, I believe it would now be called a dessert! Enjoy and Happy Spring!
This is another amazing recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction Blog. For the recipe and full instructions, click on the link below:
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/strawberry-lemon-poppy-seed-scones/
