{Nectarine Peach Shortcakes}
Whenever our family goes to the beach we always seem to pack nectarines and peaches. Most of the time they are devoured but this time around we had a few left over so I chopped them up and incorporated them into yummy shortcakes (cream scones). Seriously, nothing beats some warm scones and a cup of coffee for breakfast. Yum.
So since I have no formal training in the kitchen (self & family taught) I have learned a few tricks along the way. Cutting the butter into the flour mixture when making scones is a very very important step to create a flaky consistency. For the longest time I didn’t have a pastry blender so a little trick I learned that works the same way is to coarsely grate the butter into the flour using a cheese grater. Then get your hands all dirty and work the mixture until the crumby texture forms.
Then to make these, I literally just formed 10 dough balls with my hands and slightly pressed them down on a cookie sheet lined with waxed paper. (P.S. I highly recommend you flour your hands or else you will be a gooey mess) You can easily use a cookie cutter but I kind of love the effortless look it makes when you free hand them. Enjoy.
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Source| Template from Love vs. Design , Recipe adapted from Martha Stewart
