Super Easy Scones

[Bribee]

Do you think I could stir fruit into this recipe, blueberries for instance, without much trouble?

[aifos]

hmm.. i really don't know, but if you're brave enough to try it, i would love to know the results 
good luck!!

[mgtr6070]

adding fruit should be fine!  If it's "wet" (fresh, frozen) instead of dried like raisins, I'd cut the liquid a bit to compensate.

[hugpete]

I just mixed up a batch of batter and it's nothing like dough. 1 cup flour to 1 cup liquid and it's way too runny to roll out.  I'm going to try adding flour.  Anyone else have this problem?  I'm almost certain I measured correctly....

[Sariea]

i had to alter this recipe as well. i ended up using 3/4 cup wheat flour, 1/2 cup pastry flour, 1/2 cup soymilk, no water, 1/4 cup margarine, the vanilla, added a teaspoon of lemon extract cuz i love lemon in everything. it was still too runny to roll out so dropped it on the cookie sheet... next time i will grease the cookie sheet because the scones got stuck to them.

other than the sticking to the pan... yum!! 

[Saskia]

BarkyMelon, what did you drizzle on your Super Easy Scones to make them look so delicious? Lovely photo.

[jessesmum]

Do you cut the margarine into the dry ingredients as if you were making pastry? I assumed that is how to do it & after I added the wet ingredients, I had a beautiful dough that rolled out very nicely. However, after baking, they were rock hard. Didn't puff up nice & light like I expected but were flat as a pancake instead.
I was very disappointed with the results.

[animalluver54375]

my turned out to be like a pancake they are good but they are the farthest thing from a scone

[kstergio]

I agree, to much liquid, I only used the 1/2c soy milk and did not need to use any water. Instead of margarine I used Crisco to make them a little softer(Crisco is vegan). That seemed to work pretty good.

[tigeir]

The cup quantity of flour is wrong - 1 cup of flour is 125g so 250g is 2 cups. I tried keeping everything the same but 2 cups flour and it worked very well.

[turkishrondo]

LOL, that flour is off which would explain the poor rising quality with too much air and not enough basis for holding it all together, they would just fall flat.  Great observation Tigeir!

[Birdperson of Berkshire]

These are pretty good. I made 6 big scones and used soy milk thickened with lemon juice. They're lovely and fluffy inside - next time I will not be lazy and I'll roll them out instead of just dumping them onto the baking shee. Oh, and I used 2 cups flour. Great with a cuppa!

[Emalie]

These were so good. I used 2 cups flour like mentioned by previous reviewers. I added the zest of an orange and walnuts to the batter because I had them laying around. Also instead of 1/2c of water I used the juice from the orange I zested which came out to be 1/4c orange juice and then just used 1/4c water to make it 1/2. I was lazy and didn't roll them out, I just used an ice cream scoop and plopped them on the pan then patted them down but they came out great anyway.