Mary Berry’s fruit scones

Name: Mary Berry fruit scones
Cook time: 10 min
Yield: 10 servings

Mary Berry shares her easy recipe for fruit scones, plus read her tips for making the best scones.

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By Mary Berry | Published - 3 Aug 2015 | Updated - 15 Sep 2025

Cooking Time

10 mins

Serves

Calories

238

Ingredients

75g (2 1⁄2 oz) butter, chilled and cut into cubes, plus extra for greasing
350g (12oz) self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
1 1⁄2 tsp baking powder
30g (1oz) caster sugar
75g (2 1⁄2oz) sultanas
About 150ml (5fl oz) milk
2 large eggs, beaten

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C (fan 200°C/425°F/Gas 7). Lightly grease a large baking sheet.
Put the flour and baking powder into a large chilled mixing bowl. Add the cubes of butter, keeping all the ingredients as cold as possible.
Rub in lightly and quickly with your fingertips until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs. Add the sugar and sultanas.
Pour 100ml (31⁄2fl oz) of the milk and all but 2 tablespoons of the beaten egg into the flour mixture.
Mix together with a round-bladed knife to a soft, but not too sticky dough, adding a bit more milk if needed to mop up any dry bits of mixture in the bottom of the bowl.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface, lightly knead just a few times only until gathered together, then gently roll and pat out to form a rectangle about 2cm (3⁄4in) deep.
Cut out as many rounds as possible from the first rolling with a 6cm (21⁄2in) cutter (a plain cutter is easier to use than a fluted one) and lay them on the baking sheet, spaced slightly apart.
Gather the trimmings, then roll and cut out again. Repeat until you have 10 scones.
Brush the tops of the scones with the reserved egg. Bake for about 10 minutes, or until risen and golden.
Remove and cool on a wire rack.

Notes

Mary Berry’s tips for great scones

My favourite way to serve scones is split open, rather than sandwiched together. That way, you get lots of jam and cream.

They’re best served warm, or make them ahead and reheat in a low oven.

For plain scones, simply omit the sultanas.

Scones need a light touch or they can become tough and heavy, so handle them as little as possible.

Roll them out quite thickly to start with; they never rise as much as you think they will.

As the dough is quite deep, dip the cutter in flour before cutting out each scone to prevent the dough from sticking to it.

For those with a sweet tooth, adding in chocolate can turn them into some delicious triple chocolate scones. Alternatively, adding fruit such as raspberries can turn them into some tasty fruity raspberry scones.

Recipe from Mary Berry Cookery Course, published by Dorling Kindersley (Hardback RRP £9.99)

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Written by: Mary Berry

Dame Mary Berry is one of the most respected food writers and presenters in the UK. She has written more than 70 cookbooks and was a judge on the Great British Bake Off.

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