Guinness Treacle and Peanuts Scones

These sweet scones are quick and easy to make.

Ingredients 54

550 g self raising flour

5 g salt

100 g treacle

250 ml Guinness

200 g fresh cream

125 g finely chopped toasted peanuts

Method

Preheat oven to 200ºC fan forced (220C normal bake). Combine flour and salt in a large bowl. Mix treacle, fresh cream, Guinness and peanuts in a different bowl. Blend liquid into flour mixture and combined to dough. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and pat the dough into a 3 cm thickness. Cut out the scones with a 5cm scone cutter and transfer to a lightly floured tray. Bake for approx. 12 min. until golden brown on top and cooked through. Dust with icing sugar.

Note: Substitute Guinness with other types of beer and maybe add chopped dates or chocolate.