Bunny scones with blueberry chia jam

  Beautiful Sunday morning I've decided to make scones for breakfast. Here is our new favourite recipe from Waitrose. You just need flour, butter, milk, baking powder, sugar, apple and blueberry jam. You will find full recipe below. Quantity given will make 10 scones. You need around 25 minutes from start till end. Use any jam you like. I've already had homemade chia and blueberry jam. If you want to make it, you can find recipe on Lexi's Clean Kitchen.
 

Blueberry bunny scones

• Preparation time: 10 minutes                                                                                   
• Cooking time: 15 minutes
• Makes: 10                    

Ingredients

225g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting1 tsp baking powder40g salted butter, chilled and cubed, plus extra for greasing1 Braeburn apple (about 140g)50g caster sugar
50g blueberry jam

Preheat the oven to 200°C, gas mark 6. Grease large baking tray or use silicone mat. 
To make the dough, put the flour and baking powder in a bowl add butter. With your fingertips rub butter into flour until it resembles breadcrumbs.
 

 

Peel the apple and great it directly to your flour/butter mixture.

 

 

Add sugar and milk, make a soft dough, try not to overwork it.

  

  

Turn out onto floured worktop and roll out to a 45 x 18cm rectangle.

 



 

Spread a blueberry jam thinly over the dough.

 



 

 Half roll up your rectangle and cut into 10 thin strips.

 

 
Bring the middle of  the unrolled strip to meet the coiled dough and pinch in place to make one floppy ear. Do the same with the remaining strip of dough to make the second ear and press it into place.
 

 

 Transfer to the baking sheet and make the remainder in the same way.

 

 

 Decorate with blueberries (I used silver cake beads and raisins) and almonds.

 

 

 

 Bake for 10-15 minutes until risen and golden.

  

  

 Enjoy!

 

 

 

Breaking the wall

I thought that today I might share one of my projects. It started as a very innocent idea of stripping some of the wallpaper in my bedroom. It was peeling of so that was very reasonable to do something with it. Unfortunately it came out with piece of the plaster, which looked like this:

Great mess as you can see :-) but I stayed calm and decided to simply plaster the wall - it can't be that difficult, can it? So after half an hour, that what I ended up with.

I posted this picture on Facebook (I wanted my husband to find out before he comes back from work) and got some nice comments with one of my friends suggesting that newest trend is bare bric wall. After only short hesitation I've decided to go for it.

 Work in progress............................................................................................

I forgot to mention that I was six months pregnant than, hence the big belly and mask :-). It took us two weeks to finish it only because it was busiest time in the year at my husband's work and I was limited in what I could do. At the beginning it wasn't very impressive, cleaning bricks was very and I was dealing with dust in whole house for the next month. All in all I love our new bedroom wall.

It's still not very shiny, even with few layers o diluted pva glue, but I think I prefer it that way. What do you think? Share your comments with me.

Hello

This is it. My first post in my first blog. It's a bit tricky to type while breast feeding my daughter but multitasking is my middle name. It's my birthday on Friday, very excited, hopefully someone is going to bake me a cake. When you get to know me better you'll probably realise that my husband is not exactly a master baker, even though he's a chef. So all hope in my daughters. Uff. I think that's enough for my first attempt. Cheerio :-)