pumkin scones

I love pumpkin season, although I live in the desert and we don't celebrate thanks giving. But my home town is known for its heavy use of pumpkins, so I think it might be my DNA acting up (chuckle ).

Pumpkin scones makes 6 

Ingredients:

• • 2 cup flour
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp powdered cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp powdered  nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp cloves, ginger
  • 6 tbsp cold butter, cubed
  • 1/2 cup canned pumpkin
  • 3 tbsp milk
  • 1 L egg

• sugar glaze

  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 tbsp milk

• spiced glaze

• 3/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 to 2 tbsp milk
• 1/4 tsp powdered cinnamon
• Pinch powdered ginger
• Pinch of powdered cloves
• Directions
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• Mix all the flour and other dry ingredients, then rub the butter and flour mix together until it takes the consistency of bread crumbs.
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Add in the pumpkin puree, milk and egg, with a wooden spoon mix in the flour/butter, and dump the whole lot on a lightly floured surface, knead the dough until it just come together (make sure that you don't work the dough too much otherwise you'll end up with tough scones).

shape the dough into a disc that is 1-2 inches thick and then slice it like a pizza into 6 equal pieces, place them into a baking sheet and bake at 180 C for 12-15 minutes   
let it cool a bit before you glaze it

for the glaze:
dissolve the sugar into the milk completely  add the spices for the spiced glaze. cover the scones with the spiced sugar glaze and then pipe over it the plain sugar glaze in a zigzag pattern .

enjoy with a cup of coffee :)

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