These soft and flaky scones are perfect for Fall baking and they’re a cinch to make. Baking something with cinnamon during the cooler months really adds a feeling of warmth and comfort to my home, and the aroma of baked cinnamon truly is heavenly. Enjoy!
Drizzling a thin layer of icing onto fresh scones is a must for me, and the sweetness from the icing complements the cinnamon so well, in my opinion. I also topped these scrumptious scones with finely chopped pecans and a little sprinkle of cinnamon.
Ingredients
1/2 cup 3.25% milk -room temperature
1 large egg -room temperature
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup unsalted butter -cold and cubed
2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup sugar
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp milk
7-9 tbsp icing sugar
Pecans -finely chopped
Pre-time to make scones really is minimal, as well as cleanup. Here's a few helpful tips.
Always use cold butter that's cut into cubes. The cold butter will help to make the scones flaky.
Use a piece of parchment paper when flouring and flattening the dough. This will help with cleanup.
Use a pastry cutter when cutting the butter into the dry ingredients. This will make cutting the butter a breeze.
Directions
- Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Whisk together the milk, egg, and vanilla. Set aside.
- Put the butter in a large bowl.
- Put the flour, baking powder, sugar, and cinnamon into a sifter. Sift the dry ingredients on top of the butter.
- Cut the butter into the dry ingredients.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix together using a spoon.
- Knead to incorporate the ingredients. Don't overwork the dough. The ingredients don’t have to be fully combined.
- Form a ball. The dough will be soft.
- Lightly flour a hard surface and place the dough on top. Lightly flour the top of the dough as well.
- Flatten the dough till it’s roughly 1 inch thick. Keep the dough in a circle.
- Using a sharp knife, cut the dough into 8 triangles.
- Place on the parchment paper.
- Bake for 20-22 minutes.
- Place the scones on a wire rack to cool.
- When the scones are cooled, whisk together the milk and icing sugar until smooth.
- Drizzle the icing on top of the scones.
- Top with some chopped pecans before the icing hardens so the pecans stick to the icing.
- Sprinkle some cinnamon on top.
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