Carrot Cake Scones – The Stay At Home Chef

Heat, home made scones are our love language! With spice-infused dough and a cinnamon glaze, these fairly scones are excellent for guide membership, a child bathe, or brunch with pals. Made with freshly-grated carrots and chilled butter, these scones are tremendous moist with simply the correct quantity of flaky, buttery goodness.

For extra carrot cake love, strive our basic Carrot Cake or our Perfectly Soft Carrot Cake Cookies.

Make a batch of freshly baked scones for the remainder of the week with our simple, make-ahead and freeze-for-later choices. Whether or not you’re baking the pre-cut dough from the night time earlier than, otherwise you’re warming up leftovers from the freezer, you’ll have heat, home made scones able to go in minutes! We love these scones for his or her versatility and ease. Excellent for breakfast, to take in your strategy to work, or for a simple after-school snack.

Ingredient Notes

• All-Goal Flour: All-purpose goes to be your go to. Also can use bread or pastry flour, however it’ll change the feel barely.
• Sugar: Can scale back by half should you would like a much less candy scone.
• Chilly Butter: Can use a cheese grater (small aspect), meals processor, or pastry cutter. Place in freezer for quarter-hour earlier than grating to assist it grate into little items.
• Heavy Cream: Provides richness to the dough, and when brushed on prime, helps the scones brown.
• Shredded Carrots: Finely shred carrots for one of the best consistency and texture.
• Walnuts: They not solely add texture but additionally complement the flavors of the carrot and spices.
• Powdered Sugar: For a thicker glaze, add 1-2 tablespoons at a time till you attain your required consistency.
• Vanilla Extract: Enhances the flavour. Pure vanilla extract is really useful for one of the best style, however synthetic vanilla can be utilized in a pinch.

Glaze and Additions

Drizzle with our home made, cinnamon glaze. This glaze actually brings out the spices within the scone and appears fairly, too.

Sprinkle chopped walnuts on prime for the completion. Topping with walnuts ties this complete recipe collectively, with the walnuts within the dough. Nonetheless, you possibly can add pecans as an alternative or use a mix of each.

Including raisins to the dough or as a garnish can be an excellent possibility, holding according to basic carrot cake flavors.

Grating Butter vs. Pastry Cutter

Utilizing a cheese grater so as to add butter to your scone dough is a nifty little trick that may make the method easier and infrequently simpler than utilizing a pastry cutter. Grating the chilly butter produces small, uniform items that blend evenly and rapidly into the flour, which is vital to attaining the right flaky texture.

This technique generally is a actual time-saver and is very helpful should you don’t have a pastry cutter. The truth is, we like this technique even higher than utilizing a pastry cutter as a result of it distributes the butter into the flour completely for simply the appropriate consistency and flakiness.

Make-Forward Choice

This dough freezes properly to be made in a while. Make the dough and reduce into wedges, after which wrap in parchment paper and seal in a freezer bag. To make, thaw the dough and bake as directed.