Christmas Calendar 2012 Day 11 - Christmas Scones

What is Christmas for me ? Christmas is using a lot of warm spices and marzipan for making great tasting home-made foods. These scones are bringing these things together in a wonderful tasting. I decided to serve them together with butter instead of the usual whipped cream and jam.

Scones are easy to make and takes no time at all to make - within 30 minutes you can sit down with a freshly baked scone and relax with a cup of this home-made Christmas Tea (which a bit longer time to make). Another scone, which is fitting perfect into Christmas time, you could try out these spicy scones with dried fruits.

Christmas Scones: - 12 pieces

• 450 g cake flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1½ teaspoon baking powder
• 50 g sugar
• 75 g marzipan - grated
• 125 g cold butter
• 1 egg
• 2 dl milk
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon cardamon
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
• 50 g sucat
• 1 egg for glazing
• spiced sugar

1. Heat the oven (conventional) to 250'C.
2. Heat the milk together with cinnamon, cardamon, vanilla sugar and sucat.
3. Mix the flour, salt, baking powder, marzipan and sugar together in a mixing bowl.
4. Cut the cold butter into small pieces.
5. Grind the butter pieces into the flour mix.
6. Add the milk and egg without kneading it a dough.
7. Place the dough on a pieces of baking paper.
8. Flatten the dough into a height of 3 cm.
9. Use a glass to cut out scone pieces or place the dough into heart shape silicone form.
10. Bake the scone at 250'C for 10-15 minutes.