Strawberry Rhubarb Scones

Strawberry rhubarb is the flavour combination of the summer! These scones are a great way of putting to use some fresh picked, or freshly picked-up strawberries and rhubarb from your garden or local fruit farm. This recipe is easy and only take 20 minute to bake (which is especially convenient if you're an impatient baker like myself).

Pro-tip: Use ripe or even over-ripe strawberries for sweeter tasting scones.

Substitutions: Use any type of flour instead of white flour, use any sweetener other than sugar and add in any other mix ins (now that I'm thinking of it, white chocolate chips would go amazingly!).

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

• 1/2 cup fresh strawberries, roughly chopped

• 2 long stalks of rhubarb, chopped into 1/4 inch pieces

• 1 tbsp. vanilla extract

• 1 tbsp. baking powder

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter

• sprinkle of salt (about 1 tsp.)

• 2/3 - 3/4 cups heavy cream (or whipping cream)

• 1/2 cup sugar

Requires

• Two mixing bowls

• Sheet pan

• Standing mixer or food processor (optional - this recipe can be done without, that's actually how I made it)

• Wooden mixing spoon (as needed)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees

2. In a mixing bowl, toss strawberries and rhubarb in 3 tbsp. of sugar and 1 tbsp. vanilla extract.

3. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Cut butter into the flour mixture (this can be done with your hands or a food processor), until butter chunks are the size of small peas. Blend in 1/4 cup of the sugar.

4. Add in the strawberry rhubarb mixture. Avoid over mixing, you want the rhubarb chunks to remain intact.

5. Blend in cream, bit by bit, until a soft dough forms.

6. Lightly flour a clean surface, transfer dough to it and divide the dough in half. To make triangular scones, flatten each half into about 4-6 inch tall disks and cut each circle into triangular scones.

7. Optional: sprinkle each scone with coarse sugar

8. Cook on a baking sheet (parchment paper optional), for 20, until edges and tops have slightly browned.

9. Enjoy!