Honey and Date Scones

If you like honey and dates these scones will be just right for your morning tea.

Ingredients make 15

300 g milk

100 ml oil

1 egg

110 g honey

150 g chopped dates

650 g self raising flour

10 g salt

Method

Preheat oven to 200ºC fan forced (220ºC normal bake) place milk, oil, egg and honey in a large bowl and whisk together. Add dates, flour and salt, combine flour 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. Space approx. a centimetre apart and bake for approx 12 min. until golden brown on top and cooked through. Dust with icing sugar.

Note: Try adding other ingredients such as chopped toasted pecan nuts.