Three Ingredient Scones

While I'm not a fantastic cook, I'm an even worse baker.  I don't know if it's lack of patience or not enough attention to detail, but I have never mastered the art. So when I saw this recipe for three-ingredient scones–from a nutritionist who claims she's also never had success with making them–I thought it was worth a try. At first they were a little bland on flavor, so I added a little fresh-squeezed juice, and diced crystallized ginger and it added just a hint of zing. I was quite pleased with how these came out, and hope you enjoy! 

Three-Ingredient Scones

Ingredients

• 3 cups Self-rising Flour
• 300 ml/10 oz Heavy Cream
• 300 ml/10 oz Plain or flavored Sparkling Water/Seltzer

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 430° F/220° C
2. Sift flour into a large bowl
3. In a separate bowl, add heavy cream, then add the seltzer, and give a very gentle stir with a table knife (to reduce air loss from the seltzer)
4. Make a well in the flour, then gently add liquids to the flour
5. Lightly stir with table knife around the bowl and through the middle a few time until combined, but still slightly damp
6. Prepare pan/sheet with parchment paper
7. Flour your work surface, and lightly empty dough onto flour (using knife to help if needed)
8. Flour the top of the dough, and your hands liberally
9. Help the dough come together by pulling the sides gently in, folding over, and repeat a couple times until it has a rustic pillow-like shape
10. Create your scones using a floured cookie cutters or knife. Be sure to flour the tool between cuts.
11. Put scones very close together on pan/sheet to encourage rising
12. Use a pastry brush to lightly brush milk over the top of each scone
13. Bake 15-20 minutes, until golden on top, and hollow sounding when tapped, then enjoy! 

If you would like to make Lemon Ginger Scones as I did:

• Use lemon seltzer/sparkling water, or ginger ale
• Add an extra 2 TBSP flour in step 2
• Add 1/4 cup lemon juice to the cream, before the seltzer, in step 4
• Finely dice a few pieces of candied ginger and add at beginning of step 5

Many thanks to Charity at Easy Healthy Tasty for the inspiration, and you can watch her makes these scones here.