Apple Cinnamon Scones – Sally’s Baking Habit

These deliciously spiced apple cinnamon scones are a quintessential fall deal with, excellent with a heat cup of tea. They’re buttery delicate 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 revealed this recipe in 2015 and have since added new images and some extra success ideas.

One reader, Lindsey, commented: “I’ve made a whole lot of totally different scones (together with your Primary Scone recipe, which can also be wonderful!) and these are by far essentially the most requested! The do-it-yourself salted caramel can also be 100% well worth the effort. My MIL liked it a lot, she simply eats it by the spoonful. Wonderful recipe!”

I discovered find out how to 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 fallacious scones up till that time! Since that fateful afternoon, I’ve perfected chocolate chip scones, blueberry scones, and even ham & cheese scones.

I exploit the identical fundamental recipe for every taste and you’ll find that base recipe right here: scones recipe. It’s my trusted method to provide the tastiest scones. Readers have liked it for years.

As we speak 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 crumbly edges
• Smooth 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 Elements:

Right here’s how the entire components work collectively to make these scones a pleasant success:

1. Flour: 2 cups of all-purpose flour is my normal quantity for do-it-yourself scones, however set further apart for the work floor and your arms.
2. Brown Sugar: I exploit both white granulated or brown sugar in my scone dough, and it depends upon the add-ins; I like brown sugar with apples. Persist with round 1/2 cup. Be at liberty to barely lower, however take into account that the scone taste and texture will barely change.
3. Baking Powder: Provides elevate.
4. Salt, Cinnamon, & Vanilla Extract: These 3 components add taste.
5. Frozen Butter: Moreover flour, chilly butter is the principle ingredient in apple scones. It provides taste, flakiness, crisp edges, and rise.
6. Heavy Cream: For the perfect tasting pastries, stick to a thick liquid reminiscent of heavy cream or entire milk buttermilk. For a nondairy possibility, attempt utilizing full-fat canned coconut milk. Keep away from thinner liquids reminiscent of milk or almond milk—the result’s usually dry, bland, and flat scones.
7. Egg: Provides taste, elevate, and construction.
8. Apples: Use your favourite apple selection. I like Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, or Fuji right here. No matter type of apples you get pleasure from in your apple pie or apple cobbler, you’ll get pleasure from right here.

Frozen Grated Butter

I’ve discovered that frozen grated butter is essential to scone success.

Like once we make pie crust, work the chilly butter into the dry components. 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 maintaining the perimeters crumbly and crisp. Refrigerated butter may 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 components. Bear in mind, you don’t need to over-work scone dough.

I like to recommend grating the frozen butter with a box grater.

In Images: The best way to Make Apple Cinnamon Scones

Since there’s no yeast, these apple cinnamon scones go from the blending bowl to the oven comparatively shortly. First, combine the dry components collectively. Second, lower shredded butter into the dry components. You should use a pastry cutter, 2 forks, or your arms for this step. A food processor works too. To keep away from overly dense scones, work the dough as little as doable. I all the time use a pastry cutter.

Subsequent, whisk the moist components collectively. Pour the moist components into the dry components, add the apples, then gently combine collectively.

Type the dough right into a disc, then lower into 8 wedges.

To acquire a flaky middle and a crumbly exterior, scone dough should stay chilly. Chilly dough gained’t over-spread both. Subsequently, I extremely advocate refrigerating the formed scones for at the very least 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 preserve 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.

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Apple Cinnamon Scones with Caramel

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  Writer: Sally
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  Prep Time: half-hour
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  Prepare dinner Time: 25 minutes
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  Whole Time: 1 hour
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  Yield: 8 scones
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  Class: Breakfast
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  Methodology: Baking
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  Delicacies: American

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Description

These apple cinnamon scones are buttery and moist with crisp-crumbly edges and delicate flaky facilities. Crunchy coarse sugar and salted caramel are the right ending touches. Learn via the recipe earlier than starting. Refrigerate the formed scones for at the very least quarter-hour earlier than baking, to assist forestall the scones from over-spreading.

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Directions

1. Whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt collectively in a big bowl. Grate the frozen butter utilizing a box 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 components collectively.
2. 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 every thing seems moistened.
3. Evenly mud a piece floor with flour. Pour the dough combination on high and, with floured arms, work dough right into a ball as greatest you may. Dough shall be sticky. If it’s too sticky, add slightly 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, lower into 8 wedges.
4. Brush scones with remaining heavy cream and if desired for further crunch, sprinkle with coarse sugar. (You are able to do this earlier than or after refrigerating within the subsequent step.)
5. Place scones on a plate or lined baking sheet (in case your fridge has house!) and refrigerate the formed scones for at the very least quarter-hour and as much as 1 day.
6. In the meantime, preheat oven to 400°F (204°C).
7. 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).
8. 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 non-obligatory caramel sauce.
9. Leftover iced or un-iced scones preserve nicely at room temperature for two days or within the fridge for five days.

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Notes

1. 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.
2. 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, miss 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.
3. In a single day Directions: Put together scones via step 5. Cowl and refrigerate in a single day. Proceed with the recipe the next day.
4. Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): Glass Mixing Bowl | Whisk | Box Grater | Pastry Cutter | Rubber Spatula | Bench Scraper | Brush | Baking Sheet | Silicone Baking Mat or Parchment Paper
5. 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 its triangle form (or no matter form) utilizing a silicone spatula.
6. Apples: I say 1 “heaping” cup as a result of this quantity doesn’t must be terribly correct. Something from 1 cup – 1 and 1/4 cups works. Don’t use an excessive amount of or else the scones gained’t maintain their form.
7. Caramel Sauce: If utilizing my do-it-yourself caramel sauce, please take into account it is a salted caramel. For a sweeter caramel, scale back salt to 1/2 teaspoon. You may make the caramel sauce upfront—see make forward tip within the caramel recipe.