About a year ago I discovered the frozen cherries at Countdown (not sponsored, but I’ve told enough people about them that I feel it should be a sponsored post!). They are freaken delicious! They are also cheap $5.50 for a 500g bag compared to almost $30 per kg for fresh cherries! These cherries went into rotation, either through just defrosting and eating a small bowl of them, adding them to yoghurt or into my morning oats. Pregnancy put me off my beloved cherries for a number of months but now I can stomach them again so I decided to make some Cherry Chocolate Scones using them to see how they went.
These Cherry Chocolate Scones are pretty delicious if I do say so myself, there is something about the combination of Cherries and Chocolate wrapped in the carby goodness that is a scone that just works really well. I’ve been making scones on and off since coming back from Worlds last year. I make a batch and freeze most of them into single servings (uncooked) and then just pull one or two out when I (or we) want to have one, pop them in the oven for 20-25min and voila, Cherry Chocolate Scones ready to go!
This Cherry Chocolate Scone recipe is made using sugar free fizzy drink which helps to reduce the calories a little bit. I originally started out with the standard lemonade scone recipe and have slowly adapted it as I’ve gone along and I’ve used a number of different types of sugar free fizz with no issues at all, you don’t appear to *need* the sugary ones to make this Cherry Chocolate Scone recipe work.
Ingredients
4 Cups High Grade Flour (+ more for shaping the dough)
4 Tsp Baking Powder
100g Chocolate Chips (or buttons, or chopped chocolate of your choice)
200g Frozen Cherries (chopped into quarters)
2 Tbs plain yoghurt (whatever yoghurt you have on hand will be fine I’m sure, we just always have plain)
1 1/4 cups sugar free L&P (you can use lemonade, lift or lemon crush fizz instead)
Shake of Salt
Makes approx 12 Scones
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 180 Degrees.
2.Chop the cherries into quarters and if using chocolate buttons or a block of chocolate also chop into small pieces.
3. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl.
4. Add the shake of salt along with the cherries and chocolate and mix through gently.
5. Add the yoghurt and about half of the L&P and using a knife cut through the mixture to mix it up (the key with scones is not to overmix)
6. Add in more of the L&P slowly and knife cut through until mixed and your mixture is all combined.
7. Spread roughly half a handful of flour on your bench and turn out the dough onto the bench, work into a shape roughly two scones wide and however high you like. If you have any particularly wet patches of mixture dust a little extra flour over them.
8. Using the knife chop the scone dough into scone sized pieces (I made 12 – sometimes I’ll make smaller ones and sometimes bigger ones) and place on a baking tray in the oven for approx 20 minutes.
What is your favourite flavour scone? Let me know in the comments, I love hearing from you!