Ginger ale is one of the soft drinks you will always find in my fridge. I keep airline size tins of the sugar free variety available in South Africa. This is a great mixer for rum, and a drink perfect for when you have a sore throat. I have used it here to make ginger ale scones for International Scone Week 2016.
Head straight on to the recipe for Ginger Ale Scones ♥
When I moved into the first home I owned I bought myself a new fridge / freezer. It was sized for the space that existed in my kitchen and was perfect for one person. When we moved into the cottage it was placed under the stairs and by that stage was fairly old. It is not really suitably sized for 2 people who like to entertain but we did not have the budget to replace it. Eventually we could afford to buy a new unit and we chose a side-by-side fridge / freezer. The white fridge (as I call it) was moved into the ‘lounge’ and was put to good use storing all the drinks and bottled condiments.
Today’s inspiration ♥ Recipe For Ginger Ale Scones ♥ can be found on Lavender and Lime #ISW2016 Share on X
The freezer section was used for vodka and schnapps and the cray fish caught by Dave during season. Last year we had a lot of power outages – called load shedding in South Africa. This resulted in my freezer giving up its ability to do its job! In the hope of saving the contents Dave turned the unit to its coldest setting. In the short term this worked for the frozen shellfish, but it did not work so well for the cold drink tins in my fridge. The tins of ginger ale froze and one of them burst. In order not to waste the beverage, I made ginger ale scones using Celia’s recipe for lemonade scones.
Ginger Ale Scones
Ingredients
- 225 g self raising flour plus extra for dusting
- 125 mls cream
- 125 mls ginger ale
Method
- Preheat the oven to 200° Celsius
- Place the flour, cream and gingerale into a mixing bowl
- Mix with a spatula until the ingredients come together
- Turn out onto a lightly floured surface
- Dust the top with flour
- Lightly dust your hands with flour
- Press down until 2cm thick
- Flour a cutter and cut out your scones
- Bring the remaining dough together and repeat until the dough is used up
- Place the scones onto a lined baking tray
- Bake for 20 minutes
- Leave to cool on a wire rack
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What I blogged August 8:
- three years ago – Pickled Plums
- four years ago – Gorgeous By Graham Beck
- five years ago – Moroccan Chicken
Still my favourite recipe for scones – must definitely try ginger ale.
Have a beautiful week.
🙂 Mandy xo
Thank you Mandy 🙂
Ooh does it taste like ginger ale at all? 😀
Not too heavily!
I love the idea of ginger ale scones! So creative. Not a big soda pop drinker here, but yes, you can always find ginger ale in my fridge too. Especially when you have an upset stomach. It does the job!!
I have not yet tried it for an upset stomach but will try and remember to do so next time I am not well 🙂
I like ginger ale but never had scone made using it. Would love to try it next time I buy ginger ale.
Hope you make them Anu 🙂
It sounds delicious. I am a fan of ginger ale and would love to try these scones.
Let me know if you do 🙂
I am so in to scones at the moment, especially with some cherry jam. A ginger version sounds delicious too.
Now I have to make some cherry jam!
I’ve never made scones like this -awesome use of ginger ale! Thanks so much Tandy!
My pleasure Shashi 🙂
Ha ha great use of an exploded tin of Ginger Ale. Not a fan to drink but in a recipe would be good, so fun in scones.
I could not throw it out!
Clever use of the ginger ale Tandy, your scones look delicious!
Thank you Cheri 🙂
Oh man I know Dave and I would go crazy for these. Beautiful looking scones and a great way to use up the extra gingerale we always seem to have lying around from making cocktails 😉
I think I should try the cocktail route next!
Ooooh, I have not tried making scones with ginger ale. Lovely!
Thank you Liz 🙂
Very thrifty. Similarly, I had a bottle of open ginger beer that I turned into scones, using a lemonade scone recipe. Thanks for adding me to the link up.
Thanks for taking part!
Yum, I love ginger ale but never even consider baking with it — now I have to try it!
Hope you do! Thanks for the visit Nancy 🙂
do they taste like ginger ale? or is it a subtle taste?
Very subtle!
We have a second fridge/freezer in the garage and it is full of beverages too. Luckily no exp,doing ginger ale! These scones look scrumptious, such a classic that would go well with all the homemade jams I’m overwhelmed with right now.
I love home made jams!
Ha, I had to clear space in the pantry last night to put away all my blueberry preserves. Used a jar of preserved pears to sweeten a plum and nectarine crisp to make a little more space! I got my scone recipe up yesterday, https://feedingmy3sons.com/2016/08/09/bacon-cheddar-and-chive-scones/#more-4051
hi tandy,
not sure if you need this but here is my post for ISW 2016:http://sherryspickings.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/potato-scones-international-scone-week.html
thanks for hosting. love the simplicity of your ginger ale scones!
Thanks, for some reason my blog is not alerting me to ping backs! I decided to do one simple and one not so simple recipe this year 🙂
I’d love to try these. Never thought to add ginger ale but it makes so much sense. I use soda water with lemon in my scones…so kind of like lemonade scones.
That is what the recipe is based on 🙂
Ooh, I love ginger, but hadn’t thought of doing this. Some finely chopped crystalised ginger would really beef up the flavour too!
That is such a great idea!
brilliant – I actually thought of ginger scones for ISW because I have wanted to try the ginger scones on passionfruit kitchen that were posted last ISW – and I love ginger ale – it is often my fizzy drink of choice. But I went savoury and hope to post the recipe soon!
Just did my scone recipe and then saw that I am way behind – I had the ISW dates totally wrong in my head. Life has been distracting! If you are up to accepting late entries, that would be lovely, but if not that is totally understandable. The link will be under my comment.
It is good when you are distracted by life. Will always take late entries 🙂
Thanks Tandy – unfortunately wasn’t the best distraction – our cat got sick and died which has slowed me down this month – but am pleased I didn’t miss the boat completely – thanks for your flexibility! Love ISW and am pleased you are keeping it going
So sorry to hear that. It’s so emotional to lose an animal. Big hugs xox
I have to get more into savoury scones for next year 🙂
I know this recipe is a huge hit by all the comments. I agree that the ginger would warm you up and be just perfect in this scone.
Thanks Bobbi 🙂
I just tried your recipe for ginger Alex scones. I don’t know if our ingredients are different from yours or not but I mixed them strictly to your specifications & had to add 5 tablespoons of flour before I could get it to hold together. Even then it was sticky to cut. They are now in the oven, I shall see how they come out!
Hi Margaret, thanks for letting me know. Flours differ all over the world. Maybe the flour you are getting in New Zealand is radically different to ours? And I know that altitude and humidity can also make a difference. This recipe is adapted from a friend who lives in Sydney – is the flour you get similar to theirs? How did they turn out in the end?