Pumpkin Scones with Pumpkin Maple Glaze

Mmmmm scones.  Really, is there anything better for breakfast than a scone, hot from the oven smeared with soft butter or your favorite jam?  No.  I didn’t think so.  :)

Scones have become a whole lot easier and quicker for me to make now that I’ve got a food processor.  Cutting butter into flour is sooooo time consuming and my food processor gets it done in just seconds! YAY for technology!

These pumpkin scones are full of pumpkin & spice and are so super moist and delicious.  They’d be great smeared with butter, hot out of the oven or slightly cooled with a pumpkin glaze on top!  Either way… they are a must make for your family this fall!

Pumpkin Scones with Pumpkin Maple Glaze

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 12 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour

Yield: At least 8 scones

Ingredients

    Pumpkin Scones
  • 2 cups flour
  • scant 1/2 cup sugar (1/4 cup + 3 Tbsp to be exact)
  • 1 Tbsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 tsp ground cloves
  • 1/4 tsp ground ginger
  • 6 Tbsp COLD unsalted butter, cubed
  • 2/3 cup COLD canned pumpkin puree (just pop it in the fridge a few hours before you want to make these)
  • 1 egg
  • 3 Tbsp heavy cream
  • Vanilla Glaze
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 Tbsp heavy cream
  • Pumpkin Maple Glaze
  • 1 heaping cup powdered sugar
  • 1 Tbsp pumpkin puree
  • 1 Tbsp maple syrup

Instructions

    Scones
  1. Preheat oven to 425 F degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spray lightly with non-stick spray.
  2. In a small bowl, whisk together the cold pumpkin puree, heavy cream, and egg.
  3. In the bowl of your food processor, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and spices. Pulse 2-3 times to mix.
  4. Add the cubed butter and pulse 5-6 times or until the butter has been broken into pieces no bigger than a pea.
  5. Pour the flour/butter mixture into a large bowl. Make a well in the middle.
  6. Add the pumpkin mixture and fold in with a spatula until a dough ball forms.
  7. On a floured surface, knead down ball 2-3 times - not any more than this!
  8. Press the dough into a large rectangle and transfer to prepared baking sheet.
  9. Using a pizza cutter, cut dough into triangles. You can cut them as big or as small as you'd like. I cut 8 triangles. Separate out evenly on baking sheet.
  10. Bake 12-14 minutes or until edges just begin to brown and tops have slightly hardened.
  11. Remove from oven and cool for 2-3 minutes on the baking sheet before removing to a wire rack to cool completely before glazing.
  12. Vanilla Glaze
  13. Whisk together the sugar and cream until smooth.
  14. Spoon glaze over each scone so they are completely covered. Use the back of the spoon to spread evenly over the scone.
  15. Allow glaze to set up before pouring on pumpkin glaze.
  16. Pumpkin Maple Glaze
  17. Whisk together the sugar, pumpkin and maple syrup.
  18. NOTE: You want this syrup to be a bit thicker than the vanilla glaze, so be mindful of that when adding the maple syrup. If it's too thin, add a Tbsp more of sugar until you get the consistency you want.
  19. Using a piping bag and a very smell round tip, pipe pumpkin glaze in a back and forth pattern over the vanilla glaze on each scone.
  20. Allow glaze to set up before serving.
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CitrusLove BlogHop: Clementine Cranberry Scones

I used fresh cranberries for the first time in my Mandarin Orange & Cranberry cookies last week.  And let me tell you… I must be a crazy woman for not ever using these before!

This morning, the Cake Duchess posted a recipe for scones that featured these beautiful little berries and I knew I just had to whip up a batch with the rest of my cranberries!

The scones turned out SO GOOD.  Seriously.  Warm, fresh from the oven with a little butter on them.  Almost too good to eat! They are tart, yet sweet… full of beautiful color and flavor with a crispy sugar crust.

I will definitely be making these again!

Clementine Cranberry Scones
makes 6 large scones

Supplies:
2 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp salt
zest of 3 Clementine oranges, about 2-3 tsp

1/2 cup unsalted butter, chilled and cubed

1 cup chopped fresh cranberries

1 tsp vanilla extract
8-10 tbsp milk, divided

1 tbsp sugar (use turbinado if you have it)

cookie sheet
parchment paper
cooking spray

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 400 F degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, lightly spray with cooking spray and set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, ginger, orange zest, and salt
  3. Add cubed butter to flour mixture.  Using a fork, press butter into the flour mixture against the side of the bowl.  The goal here is to create a very dry dough where the butter is in small pieces, not chunks… coarse like.
  4. Add the cranberries and stir with a wooden spoon to combine.
  5. In a small measuring cup, mix together 5 tbsp of the milk and the vanilla together.   Add milk to the flour mixture and combine.
  6. Add 3-5 more tbsp of milk at a time until the mixture forms a dough and no dry ingredients remain.
  7. Move the dough to your cookie sheet and flatten into a round circle about 1 1/2 inches thick.  Cut it into 6 equal triangles with a sharp knife, and space evenly across sheet.
  8. Brush the scones with a tablespoon of milk and sprinkle generously with sugar.
  9. Bake for 20-22 minutes or until tops of scones brown.  Watch carefully you don’t want them to burn!
  10. Remove to a wire rack to cool… or you could smear them with butter and eat warm! YUM!

Recipe adapted from: Cake Duchess 

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