The Baker's Dozen: Scottish Scones

 

The Baker's Dozen: Scottish Scones

Well, today's recipe was another success! If you like scones or oatmeal cookies, you'll love this one. It's the perfect combination of both of them! Here is the recipe:

Scottish Scones(Source Unknown)

1 1/2 cups flour

3/4 cup rolled oats

1/4 cup brown sugar

2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup milk

Topping:

1 Tbsp. butter, melted

1 Tbsp. sugar

1 tsp. cinnamon

Heat oven to 350 degrees; grease cookie sheet. Mix all dry ingredients; cut in softened butter. Add milk and mix. Knead 6 times; press out into 6" circle on cookie sheet. Brush with melted butter; sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Cut into 8 wedges; bake 20-25 minutes.

Makes 8 scones.

All the ingredients, ready to go!

Here we have all the dry ingredients mixed together.

The butter is now mixed in, it's still pretty dry, as you can see.

This is after the milk is mixed in. It was still a little too sticky after I kneaded it, so I added a small handful of flour and kneaded it in. It was just perfect after that.

Melted butter and cinnamon-sugar always makes everything better!

I ended up needing more time than it called for. About a full half hour.

Here's a close-up of the inside of a scone. It looks like whole wheat because of the color, but it's from the brown sugar.

I love making scones because they look so fancy, but they are so easy to make! One bowl, very little to clean up afterwards. The payoff is so big with scones, it's hard to go wrong with them. The oats, the element that makes these scones Scottish, add a really nice chewiness to them too. I froze two so my parents can try them out, but basically, between my sister and I, we're down to one scone left tonight!

Definitely give these a try some day! If you like scones, oats, cinnamon-sugar, or baked goods in general, you'll love these!