Sticky Toffee Scones - cooking recipe

Ingredients

225 g self raising flour
55 g caster sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
55 g butter
1 large egg
150 ml milk
100 g pitted dates
5 g bicarbonate of soda
100 ml water

Preparation

Sift the flour, sugar and baking powder together in a bowl.
rub in the butter and then mix in th egg.
pour in the milk and mix to form a dough.
place the dates, bicarb of soda and water in a saucepan.
over a low heat, cook gently until the dates soften and break down. Cool.
Preheat the oven to 200C 400\u00b0F.
fold the gooey dates into the scone dough.
roll the dough out onto a floured board to 1 inch thickness and cut with round cutter.
place round onto baking sheet and place in oven. bake for 10 minutes.