Recipe: Gluten Free Raisin Cream Scones

Are you a fan of scones?  Here is a nice recipe for a raisin cream scone!

Raisin Cream Scones

Ingredients:

• 1 cup brown rice flour
• 1/2 cup sweet rice flour or tapioca starch
• 1/2 cup almond flour
• 1/4 cup potato starch
• 2 tsps. gluten-free baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. xanthan gum
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/2 stick unsalted butter, chilled and cut into pieces
• 1/2 cup golden raisins, soaked for 10 minutes in hot water and drained 2 eggs
• 1 tbsp. honey
• 1/3 to 1/2 cup heavy cream
• Cinnamon sugar for sprinkling

Baking Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 400 F.
2. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or lightly grease the cookie sheet and dust it with rice flour.
3. Mix together the brown rice flour, sweet rice flour, almond flour, potato starch, baking powder, xanthan gum, and salt.
4. Add the butter and use your fingertips to work it into the dry ingredients, forming a coarse meal.
5. Toss in the raisins.
6. Make a well in the dry ingredients.
7. Break the eggs into the well.
8. Add the honey and some of the cream.
9. Using a fork, begin mixing the wet ingredients together and then slowly incorporate the dry. Add more cream to form a soft but not wet dough.
10. Remove the dough from the bowl and place on a lightly floured counter.
11. Press into a flat cake about 1/2 inch thick.
12. Using a biscuit cutter, cut out the dough.
13. Place the scones on the cookie sheet. Brush with some cream and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Bake on the middle rack for 12 to 15 minutes.
14. Check the bottoms of the scones; they should be golden brown when done.
15. Makes 6 (3-inch) scones.

[Recipe Courtesy of Galesburg]