Love yourself this Valentine with Coconut oil scones

The best thing about scones is that they are so quick and easy to make. You don’t need to wait for cold butter to reach room temperature. You can walk in from work and have them baked on a plate and smothered in jam within half an hour.

This super delicious recipe is even simpler. Just three ingredients! Coconut oil, coconut milk and self raising flour. You’d think that they taste really coconutty but strangely they don’t! They have a slight hint of coconut but very light. When I baked the first test batch the girls ate them fresh out the oven with nothing on, but the second batch were cold so they smothered them with jam and cream (there goes the healthy loving yourself aspect!) and they were just as good.

Why Coconut oil

When I first received the Coconut oil from Amazon I had to have a feel. It looks like vaseline that’s been whisked up. I put some on my finger to feel it and where I rubbed it into my hands it felt really soft. There are a million and one ways to use this oil without even thinking about baking – like use it with sugar for a body scrub – yep that one works well, use it as a moisturizer, tick, add it to your bath-  Mmmmm. In fact google “uses for coconut oil ” and you’ll find lists of 99, 101 and 107 uses for the stuff. That’s why it’s become the must have ingredient of the moment.

When it comes to eating coconut oil the list is just as long. Mix it with chia seeds for an energy boost – one blogwarns not to take this in the evening or you’ll never get to sleep! You can substitute the butter or oil in any recipe with it – but I’ve had mixed results with this.

The flavour is subtle but the end result with the scones was an instant winner. Coconut oil is definitely going to be a permanent fixture in our house – if I could only leave it in the kitchen and not the bathroom!

Coconut oil scones

Persons

15

Ingredients

• 300g Self raising flour
• 55g Coconut oil
• 175ml coconut milk

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 180ºC and line a baking sheet with silicon paper.
2. Place the flour and coconut oil in a bowl and use your hands to combine till you have a breadcrumb consistency.
3. Slowly add the milk. Avoid over mixing as this what makes them tough and we want light and fluffy scones.
4. Once combined roll out onto a lightly dusted surface and cut out circles. Try not to twist the cutter as you pull it off the dough, that's what makes them contort during baking.
5. Place your scones on a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. They will be pale so check the underneath has browned slightly.
6. Remove from the oven and allow to cool a little before smothering with jam.

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So, I hope you are loving yourself this Valentine with these healthy treats. I’m loving you all.

EmmaMT x

Disclaimer: Thanks to Amazon for sending me the Super foods in this series of ‘Love yourself this Valentine’ posts. All thoughts and ramblings are my own.