These deliciously spiced apple cinnamon scones are a quintessential fall deal with, excellent with a heat cup of tea. They’re buttery tender with flaky facilities, crisp-crumbly edges, and loaded with bits of sweet-tart juicy apples. Crunchy coarse sugar and caramel sauce are the right ending touches!
I initially printed this recipe in 2015 and have since added new images and some extra success ideas.
I realized make completely scrumptious scones 10 years in the past once I attended a cooking occasion in a take a look at kitchen. Seems that I had been making all of the mistaken scones up till that time! Since that fateful afternoon, I’ve perfected chocolate chip scones, blueberry scones, and even ham & cheese scones.
I take advantage of the identical primary recipe for every taste and you could find that base recipe right here: scones recipe. It’s my trusted components to provide the tastiest scones. Readers have beloved it for years.
One reader, Lindsey, commented: “I’ve made quite a lot of completely different scones (together with your primary scone recipe, which can be wonderful!) and these are by far essentially the most requested! The selfmade salted caramel can be 100% definitely worth the effort. My MIL beloved it a lot, she simply eats it by the spoonful. Glorious recipe! ★★★★★”
At this time we’re making apple cinnamon scones, a best choice 12 months spherical, and particularly when the autumn season arrives. Right here’s why you’ll love them, too:
- Candy crisp-crumbly edges
- Tender and moist but flaky facilities
- Crunchy golden brown exterior
- Cinnamon & brown sugar flavors
- An overflow of juicy apples
- Drizzles of salted caramel on high—simply how we like our apple turnovers, too!
Seize These Components:
Right here’s how all the substances work collectively to make these scones a pleasant success:
- Flour: 2 cups of all-purpose flour is my customary quantity for selfmade scones, however put aside some additional for the work floor and your fingers.
- Brown Sugar: I take advantage of both white granulated or brown sugar in my scone dough—it relies on the add-ins. I like brown sugar with apples. Persist with about 1/2 cup. Be at liberty to barely lower, however needless to say the scone taste and texture will barely change.
- Baking Powder: Provides carry.
- Salt, Cinnamon, & Vanilla Extract: These 3 substances add taste.
- Frozen Butter: In addition to flour, chilly butter is the principle ingredient in apple scones. It provides taste, flakiness, crisp edges, and rise.
- Heavy Cream: For the best-tasting pastries, stick to a thick liquid comparable to heavy cream or complete milk buttermilk. For a nondairy choice, attempt utilizing full-fat canned coconut milk. Keep away from thinner liquids comparable to milk or almond milk—the result’s usually dry, bland, and flat scones.
- Egg: Provides taste, carry, and construction.
- Apples: Use your favourite apple selection. I like Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, or Fuji right here. No matter form of apples you take pleasure in in your apple pie or apple cobbler, you’ll take pleasure in right here.
Frozen Grated Butter
I’ve realized that frozen grated butter is vital to scone success.
Like after we make pie crust, work the chilly butter into the dry substances. The chilly butter coats the flour. When the buttery flour crumbs soften because the scones bake, they launch steam, which creates pockets of air. These pockets add a flaky middle, whereas conserving the sides crumbly and crisp. Refrigerated butter would possibly soften within the dough as you’re employed it, however frozen butter will maintain out till the oven. Timing is KEY! And the finer the items of chilly butter, the much less the scones unfold and the faster the butter mixes into the dry substances. Keep in mind, you don’t wish to over-work scone dough.
I like to recommend grating the frozen butter with a field grater.
In Photographs: Make Apple Cinnamon Scones
As a result of there’s no yeast, these apple cinnamon scones go from the blending bowl to the oven comparatively shortly. First, combine the dry substances collectively. Second, reduce shredded butter into the dry substances. You need to use a pastry cutter, 2 forks, or your fingers for this step. A meals processor works too. To keep away from overly dense scones, work the dough as little as potential. I all the time use a pastry cutter.
Subsequent, whisk the moist substances collectively. Pour the moist substances into the dry substances, add the apples, then gently combine collectively.
Kind the dough right into a disc, then reduce into 8 wedges.
To acquire a flaky middle and a crumbly exterior, scone dough should stay chilly. Chilly dough received’t over-spread, both. Due to this fact, I extremely advocate refrigerating the formed scones for a minimum of quarter-hour previous to baking. You possibly can even refrigerate in a single day for a fast breakfast within the morning.
Earlier than baking, brush the scones with heavy cream and sprinkle with coarse sugar. These extras add a stunning golden sheen with a bakery-style crunch. After that, bake the scones till golden brown.
The scones are INCREDIBLE proper out of the oven, however style even higher with salted caramel on high. 🙂 What doesn’t?!
Different topping choices: You possibly can definitely hold the scones plain or mud with confectioners’ sugar. Or attempt the maple icing from these maple brown sugar cookies, the brown butter icing from these pumpkin oatmeal cookies, or just vanilla icing.
Extra Apple Recipes
Apple Cinnamon Scones with Caramel
Prep Time: half-hour
Cook dinner Time: 25 minutes
Whole Time: 1 hour
Yield: 8 scones
Class: Breakfast
Technique: Baking
Delicacies: American
Description
These apple cinnamon scones are buttery and moist with crisp-crumbly edges and tender flaky facilities. Crunchy coarse sugar and salted caramel are the right ending touches. Learn by means of the recipe earlier than starting. Refrigerate the formed scones for a minimum of quarter-hour earlier than baking, to assist forestall the scones from over-spreading.
Directions
- Whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt collectively in a big bowl. Grate the frozen butter utilizing a field grater. Add it to the flour combination and mix with a pastry cutter, two forks, or your fingers till the combination comes collectively in pea-sized crumbs. Place within the fridge or freezer as you combine the moist substances collectively.
- Whisk 1/2 cup heavy cream, the egg, brown sugar, and vanilla extract collectively in a small bowl. Drizzle over the flour combination, add the apples, then combine collectively till all the things seems moistened.
- Evenly mud a piece floor with flour. Pour the dough combination on high and, with floured fingers, work dough right into a ball as greatest you may. Dough will probably be sticky. If it’s too sticky, add just a little extra flour. If it appears too dry, add 1 extra Tablespoon of heavy cream. Press into an 8-inch disc and, with a pointy knife or bench scraper, reduce into 8 wedges.
- Brush scones with remaining heavy cream and if desired for additional crunch, sprinkle with coarse sugar. (You are able to do this earlier than or after refrigerating within the subsequent step.)
- Place scones on a plate or lined baking sheet (in case your fridge has house!) and refrigerate the formed scones for a minimum of quarter-hour and as much as 1 day.
- In the meantime, preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C).
- Line a big baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone baking mat. After refrigerating, organize scones 2–3 inches aside on the ready baking sheet(s).
- Bake for 22–25 minutes or till golden brown across the edges and evenly browned on high. Take away from the oven and funky for a couple of minutes earlier than topping with elective caramel sauce.
- Leftover scones hold properly at room temperature for as much as 2 days or within the fridge for as much as 5 days.
Notes
- Freeze Earlier than Baking: Freeze scone dough wedges on a plate or baking sheet for 1 hour. As soon as comparatively frozen, you may layer them in a freezer-friendly bag or container. Bake from frozen, including a couple of minutes to the bake time. Or thaw in a single day, then bake as directed.
- Freeze After Baking: Freeze the baked and cooled scones earlier than topping with caramel. I often freeze in a freezer-friendly bag or container. To thaw, omit on the counter for a couple of hours or in a single day within the fridge. Heat within the microwave for 30 seconds or on a baking sheet in a 300°F (149°C) oven for 10 minutes.
- In a single day Directions: Put together scones by means of step 5. Cowl and refrigerate in a single day. Proceed with the recipe the next day.
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): Glass Mixing Bowl | Whisk | Field Grater | Pastry Cutter | Silicone Spatula | Bench Scraper | Brush | Baking Sheet | Silicone Baking Mat or Parchment Paper | Coarse Sugar
- Over-spreading: Begin with very chilly scone dough. Anticipate some unfold, but when the scones are over-spreading as they bake, take away from the oven and press again into triangle form (or no matter form) utilizing a silicone spatula.
- Apples: I say 1 “heaping” cup as a result of this quantity doesn’t have to be terribly correct. Something from 1 cup to 1 and 1/4 cups works. Don’t use an excessive amount of or else the scones received’t maintain their form.
- Caramel Sauce: If utilizing my selfmade caramel sauce, please be mindful this can be a salted caramel. For a sweeter caramel, scale back salt to 1/2 teaspoon. You can also make the caramel sauce upfront—see make-ahead tip within the caramel recipe.
