Delicious Light and Fluffy White Chocolate & Cranberry Scones – perfect for Afternoon Tea!
This delicious recipe is based very closely around my recipe for Classic Buttery Scones. I always believe that once you find a good recipe, why should you change it? (unless of course it is savoury, then something so sweet might not be so nice!!) I find the key to a good scone is using just the right amount of rising agent, and not over working the dough – if you overwork it, it’ll be tough and horrible!
It might seem like I have an obsession with White Chocolate, and don’t get me wrong, I do love it, but I love all chocolate! I just think that White Chocolate and Raspberry/Cranberry goes together SO well its rude not to experiment with that wonderful combination! I am the same with scones, I love all scones, but I thought the marriage of them and some chocolate and fruit would be the best thing on earth – and my family said they were!
These are perfect to serve for Afternoon Tea, but honestly I still eat them for breakfast, lunch and dessert at dinner! I serve mine with Clotted Cream and Strawberry Jam, but that is clearly down to you!
This recipe makes ten 5cm scones!
Ingredients
– 90g cold butter, cut into small cubes
– 1 tsp baking powder
– 1/4 tsp salt
– 350g self raising flour, sifted, plus extra for dusting
– 50g caster sugar
– 1 tsp lemon juice
– 175ml milk (I use semi-skimmed)
– 1 tsp vanilla essence
– 100g white chocolate chopped up/chips
– 100g dried cranberries
– 1 egg, beaten – to glaze
Method
1) Heat the oven to 220C/200C Fan/430F and line 1-2 baking trays
2) Tip the flour, salt, baking powder and butter into a food processor and pulse until it resembles bread crumbs! Pour the mixture into a bowl and stir in the sugar. Add the lemon juice to the dry mixture
3) Heat the milk in the microwave or on the hob so its warm but not hot – microwave will take about 1 minute – Add the vanilla to the milk and mix
4) Make a well in the dry mixture and add the liquid – stir with a spatula as it will be very wet – it will form a relatively wet dough when it is all combined – Then fold in the chopped up chocolate and cried cranberries!
5) Dust the work surface with some flour and tip the dough onto it – fold the dough over a few times so it is smooth but do not over work it! Roll the dough out till it is about 4cm thick
6) Dip a 5cm round cutter into the spare flour and cut out the scones – you will probably get four out of the first go – Roll out the dough again and cut the rest out till the dough is all used up.
7) Carefully place the scones onto the baking trays and brush the tops with the beaten egg so its glazed and bake in the oven for 10 minutes – leave to cool slightly when baked
8) Serve with clotted cream and jam for the stereotypical delicious scone!
Tips and Ideas
You could easily make this mix and use a smaller cutter so that the scones are more delicate which I often do – I then usually get 12 out of the mix. I often find these are delicious when still warm as it makes them lighter and fluffier!
Be careful not to mix the white chocolate in too early, or the heat of the milk that was poured in will melt it – which may not be a bad thing, but it might change how light the texture is, and I love the chocolatey chunks running through!
Enjoy!!
P.S. To settle the Jam/Cream and Cream/Jam debate, I sandwiched it together so you can flip it and have it how you like!
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Hi, could you use fresh cranberries with this recipe? Thanks Karen
I’ve never tried I’m afraid!
i tried making these and they look fab, its an easy to follow recipe and i think your website is great .
Thank you so much!! x
Have always wanted to try baking scones but never knew which of the million of scone recipes are good! Yours look like it will be the one I’ll try! 🙂
Ohh thank you so much! I love scones so baking them at home is even better 😀
I love scones, this is great! How do you manage to eat everything that you bake!?
Thank you! I struggle myself, so i usually try and base it around birthdays and such, and I and my family take it all to work!!
Your friends, family, and coworkers must all love you! You’re like the sugar plum fairy that blesses everyone with sweets 🙂
I actually do the same…. I can be sure that if I bring my baked goods to work that they’ll be devoured instantly. A great way to get brownie points and not have food go to waste!
Exactly! I despise food going to waste so if it’s just an experimentation I will give it away or take it to a charity bake sale! 🙂
Help! I have brownies in the oven as I’m reading this – now I feel I have to make these delicious-sounding scones, too! Heading to the shops in a minute to buy ingredients for spicy chicken pasties – I can’t be held responsible if a packet of white chocolate chunks falls into my basket at the same time…
Well I hope your hand accidentally grabs the bag of white chocolate! Haha no, I hope you do like them if you try them ☺️ x
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I’ve just tried this recipe here at home, sadly, for the purpose of showing you guys what I made, I couldn’t take a picture, because everyone jumped on them as they came out of the oven, lol!
I also changed the dried cranberry for raisins, because I’m in Brazil and cranberries aren’t nearly as common as raisins are. The scones turned out GREAT! 😀
Looks yum!
Thanks!!
I think I’ve pinned almost every single one of your recipes- ha! Seriously, these look ridiculously good.
Awwwwh thank you! What’s your Pinterest? And thank you again!
It’s https://www.pinterest.com/jamie1young1/, I’ve just pinning directly from your site, but it would be easier to just follow you- ha! I’m going to go follow you right now 🙂
Followed back! Haha thank you though, sometimes I forget to pin my own stuff so it’s handy!!
Looking forward to being blogging and pinterest buddies 🙂
Definitely! ?
Why didn’t you post this a few days ago? It would have been PERFECT for Mothers Day! Haha oh well, i’m still happy with what i’ve already made i’ll have to make this for a different occasion :).
Haha sorry, Mother’s Day is in March in the UK soo I had no idea! Haha and oh good!
It’s tomorrow (well technically it is today if you are pedantic about the whole am thing) here. I never understood why half the world celebrates Mother’s Day at different times to each other!
Ohhhh I see! Neither do I haha, when I posted a recipe in March for Mother’s Day I got a lot of confused comments ?
Oh would you look at that shot of the scone filled with jam and clotted cream. Perfection! It looks magnificent Jane 😀
I just love jam and clotted cream haha and thank youuuu!!
I’ve noticed lol 😉
Lovely, as always! We’re off to the Cotswolds on hols soon and this has made me add afternoon tea to our list of “must do” activities. 🙂
I honestly adore afternoon tea SO much, and in the Cotswolds it’ll be utterly splendid! 🙂 and thank you!
Scones are by far the best thing about afternoon tea. These look beautiful!
Thank youu!! And I totally agree!
Mmmm, yum. It’s breakfast time here and I could REALLY go for some of these Jane- they’re BEAUTIFUL, especially those golden brown tops.
Thanks, Jess! They’re perfect for breakfast haha! Bake some ?
Every single recipe you upload looks so good. Im glad I found your blog 🙂
Thank youuuu!! 🙂
I can’t wait finally to try one of your absolutely amazing recipes, and I think it will be THIS one. Possibly even today!
If that’s all right with you I’ll post my results on my blog and link to yours 🙂
I really love lots of your work, and you’ll certainly hear from me again! Keep up the brilliance! 😀
Ohh thank you SO much!! 😀 That means the world to me! And yes definitely post away and tag me 🙂 I hope you like them! x
I’ll let you know!!! And thank you! 🙂