Almond scones with vanilla yoghurt and crushed berries
These healthier almond scones are a quick and delicious baking recipe served with yoghurt and crushed berries.
Serves: 10
Time to make: 40 mins
Ingredients
- 1¹/³ cups self-raising flour, sifted
- ½ cup coconut flour, sifted
- 1 teaspoon baking powder, sifted
- ½ cup almond meal (see tips)
- 3 tablespoons reduced-fat spread
- 2½ tablespoons icing sugar
- ²/³ cup trim milk, plus extra to brush
- 1½ cups low-fat plain yoghurt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
- 1½ cups fresh or frozen raspberries
Instructions
1 Preheat oven to 200°C. Lightly grease an oven tray.
2 Into a large bowl, place flours and baking powder. Add almond meal, spread and 1½ tablespoons of the icing sugar. Using your fingertips, lightly rub mixture together to resemble fine crumbs.
3 In the centre of the flour mixture, make a well and add in milk and ½ cup of the yoghurt. Using a knife, mix together to form a soft sticky dough. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Pat out until 3cm thick. Using a 5cm round pastry cutter, cut 10 scones from dough.
4 On the prepared tray, place the scones side by side. Brush the tops with milk and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the scones have risen, are golden brown and sound hollow when lightly tapped. Transfer to a clean tea towel. Wrap tea towel around the scones.
5 In a bowl, whisk remaining yoghurt, vanilla bean paste and 1 teaspoon of the icing sugar. In a second bowl, place raspberries with the remaining icing sugar and use the back of a fork to gently crush.
6 Serve scones with yoghurt and crushed raspberries.
Variations
Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free self-raising flour and check baking powder and icing sugar are gluten free.
HFG tip
Almond meal is finely ground almonds. If you don’t have a pastry cutter, use an upside down glass.
Nutrition Info (per serve)
Kilojoules 750kJ
Calories 179cal
Protein 8g
Total fat 6g
–Saturated fat 1g
Carbohydrates 25g
–Sugars 7g
Dietary fibre 3g
Sodium 170mg
Calcium 140mg
Iron 1mg
Note: Nutrition composition will vary depending on the exact ingredients used. For a guide to purchasing healthier packaged goods and general grocery items see here.
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