Orange Honey and Date Scones

These healthy scones have great flavours and are excellent for breakfast or morning tea.

Ingredients make 15

500 g self raising flour

10 g salt

100 g unsalted butter

1 oranges zest of

100 g honey

75 g finely chopped dates

300 ml orange juice

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C normal bake (fan forced) 200°C. Combine flour and salt in a large bowl. Add the butter and use your hands to rub the butter into the flour until it resembles bread crumbs. Combine orange zest, honey, dates and orange juice in another bowl. Add this mixture to the 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 approx. a centimeter apart. Bake for approx 12 min. and dust with icing sugar.

Note: Try adding lemon or lime zest for more citrus flavours.