By Chelsea Sugar![Lemonade Scones]()
Page views: 685862Foolproof scone recipe which everyone should have saved to their recipe book! Make sure you use regular lemonade, diet just won't do it!
65 reviews
4 cups Edmonds Self Raising Flour
300ml cream (1 small bottle of cream)
¼ cup Chelsea White Sugar
300ml lemonade
½ tsp salt
Preheat oven to 220°C. Cover an oven tray with a sheet of baking paper or spray well with non stick baking spray.
Mix all ingredients in a bowl to form a smooth dough (the mixture is quite sloppy). Tip out onto a floured bench and form into a 'round'. Carefully lift and place onto baking tray (a dough scraper helps) and cut into wedges (leave with sides touching - scones will pull apart after baking). Alternatively, use a cookie cutter or knife to cut into rounds or squares.
Bake for about 15 - 20 minutes until starting to colour pale golden. Check they are cooked through and cool on a wire rack, covered with a clean tea towel (this keeps the scones lovely and soft).
Cut in half and spread with Tararua Butter, jam and whipped cream whilst still warm.
SCONE VARIATIONS:
· Add 1 cup of dried fruit to the mixture e.g. chopped dates, sultanas, raisins or dried cranberries.
· Add 1 cup of chocolate chips to the mixture.
· To make savoury scones, replace the lemonade with soda water and any of these optional extras:-
· 1 large onion, finely chopped
· 1 cup grated tasty cheese
· 6 rashers lean rindless bacon, chopped
· 3 tablespoons chopped parsley or fresh herbs
· To make a cinnamon pinwheel scone, mix 2 teaspoons cinnamon with 3/4 cup Chelsea Caster Sugar. Lay the dough mixture out flat on a well floured bench. Pat out to be a rectangle approximately 30 x 20 cm. Sprinkle the cinnamon mixture over the surface. Roll up from the long side into a sausage shape then cut into slices. Lay the slices on a prepared tray so they just touch each other, cook and cool as above. The lovely sticky cinnamon filling can be quite hot so remember to cool them down before biting in.
Excellent, Delicious and yummy for my tummy. Appreciate some of your fudge / no baking recipes. Happy baking & Divine eating.
Four things attracted me to this recipe which, by the way, is a winner.
It's lockdown. A Saturday. The family have a day's activities scheduled. I have work to do. At 2.30pm I'm feeling like a break. They're busy, but it's a while since they had pancakes for brunch. Decide to make scones. Google scone recipes.
As I said, four things were appealing:
1. A short ingredient list
2. Cream and lemonade made a short list easy to use
3. Not having to mix in butter by hand to a fine crumb because who likes doing that
4. Not having to grease a tray.
Then it was as easy as they say. Chuck everything in a bowl. Mix. Plonk it on the bench. Shape. Transfer. Cut. Bake. Separate. Eat. They were delicious.
Tips I would have found useful
1. I was confused by 'sloppy' in the recipe. They probably are for scones, but if you're not a regular scone maker 'wet and sticky' may be more apt.
2. Needed a reasonable amount of flour on the bench to stop it sticking; more than I used. That made transferring it to the tray a little messier than it could have been.
3. Per #2, keep plenty of flour handy for your hands.
4. I make cheese scones that are cooked at the minimum time recommended. These needed the maximum.
5. Didn't have self-raising flour so used baking powder without issue.
Hi, I did all the exact ingredients but my mixture was so liquidity & had extra flours. I managed to rolled & mold but my scones turned up densed & hard. Please help!
First time I've ever made scones. They came out perfect.
I placed the baking paper on the bench and flour on that, this made it very easy to transfer/ slide onto the tray with no mess.
10/10
it taste better then it looks
Love it!!!! I used Lift (soft drink) and it gave the scones a nice lemon after taste. So easy to make and so tasty. Went down a treat with the kids.
Always love making this recipe. Number 1 tip - don't over mix.... it should be only combined together and not sticky.
Have never made scones and these turned out better than I imagined. My family loved them.
Can't wait to make the different variations - savoury and cinnamon.
Mixture is sticky, but just use a floured bench and floured hands and you will have amazing light fluffy scones
First time I made scones...better than scones I get from a cafe....thinking I am not so good at baking and I still made really nice scones with this recipe, probably the easiest and best scone recipe for anybody.
These scones are always perfect! I’ve had a gastric sleeve and my dad is diabetic so neither of us can have very much sugar. I always substitute sugar free lemonade and have never had any issues with dough texture. If anything they’ve tasted better! Also add dates into the dry mixture before wet ingredients... yum!
Decided to make after reading all the great reviews, I left out the sugar and found the recipe to be very sticky - so sticky i had to get a family member to get the oven tray out of the cupboard and then later to open the oven door. However I cooked them and they turned out light and fluffy and delicious. I would make again - but would be a bit more prepared. Still gets 5 stars
Officially best scones I’ve ever made. And the best part is, no need to cut in butter!!
Didn’t have cream so substituted 1/2C cream cheese and 1/2C milk. Used soda water and added bacon & cheese. They were delish.
Fabulous recipe, thanks for sharing it. Made a beautiful tasty batch of scones for lunch today 10/10
Finally scones that taste good and look good too. Light and fluffy. I used a cup to cut into rounds and they look perfect.
Thank you
I had the satisfaction of baking this today and they turned out absolutely delicious! I loved this recipe so much thank you for sharing
Excellent! Plus mine came out looking extraordinarily elegant! I will have to forward a photo as it really looked like a swanky (very dear!) bakery special brunch order.
I used mostly New Zealand ingredients, as follows:
Edmond's Self-raising flour
Puhoi Valley cream
Chelsea Raw Caster Sugar
Marlborough salt
Thank you very much for such an amazingly simple and scrumptious recipe.
Kind regards,
Susan
Made these scones first time today an had wonderful comments.
They were extremely delish. American friend commented they were the best scone he has ever eaten, just delish with butter,whipped cream, , topped with fresh blueberries. Wish I had homemade blackberry jelly jam. This was my first time using this receipe. Thank you Chelsea.
Light, fluffy and delicious. I have never been very good at making scones but these were so quick and easy to do and they turned out great.
Can you make them without cream? I mean what is substitute?
CHELSEA: hi, you can substitute yoghurt or buttermilk. It will change the texture though.
Made these scones yesterday with the girls during the school holidays. I was apprehensive about the wet mixture but remembered I use a wet mixture when making bread. Awesome recipe quick and easy to make. Very light, soft and delicious.
I've made this recipe for some time and haven't ever used extra sugar - the lemonade is sweet enough. They are delicious!
Works great with other fizzy sugar drinks too. Try using Ginger Ale/Beer, Orange/Fanta, etc instead of Lemonade but consider the end colour when choosing the drink. e.g. Will work with coke but the scone colour might not be to your liking.
For 40 years my scones were like bricks, now I'm making them a couple of times a week some plain some savory or sweet, thank you.
These come out perfect every time. Highly recommended!! We make these every week nearly - great with dates added in too.
Jo Seagar bought these to my attention years ago and they are so easy and awesome. Recipes should always be shared.
I always thought that a good scone required meticulously rubbing the butter into the flour and kneading the dough. And then I made these...
Beautiful moist scones. Going to try the savoury scones next time
These scones were so easy to make and cooked beautifully. When I felt them they seemed a bit heavy but when eating them they were so light and delicious. Great recipe.
Never have I been able to do scones, well I did it thank you, easy and yummy
Best scone recipe yet I have made. Just to let you know that I used zero lemonade and they turned out just fine!!
Best ever scones
OI only use 300ml of lemonade that amount and the recipe is fine - not too wet. (I believe cans used to be only 300ml). Otherwise use 5 - 6 cups flour. This recipe used to be a favourite at gala days for the tea room stall and has been around for many years. It's light, tasty and very easy to make.
This happens to be one of the best recipes for scones I have ever tried! :)
Easy amazing scones
Absolutely delighted with how easy and wonderful these scones turned out! Thanks!
JUST LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE GEE I MISS HER SCONES WITH CLOTTED CREAM AND FRESH STRAWBERRY JAM GORDON. N DEVON
Super simple and always perfect!
Awesome Recipe
These are the easiest scones to make and turn out so light and airy....
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