I have a thing for the maple and brown sugar flavor. I love it in oatmeal and I love it as a cookie. I even have a thing for maple syrup. But, I have never eaten a scone before. To me, they always seemed like a dry biscuit and that never made them appealing to me. But I suddenly wanted to try to make them. So I browsed around for the easiest and delicious scones I could find. And to come found out, they aren’t all that dry! I adapted this recipe from the food blog, How Sweet It Is, and added my own flare. The recipe was originally for Maple and Bacon Scones. Instead I decided to make Maple Brown Sugar Scones. Yea, ummm, I wasn’t really feeling the bacon all that much. Speaking of bacon, has the world gone mad with things they can make with bacon, or is it just me? I have seen chocolate covered bacon (didn’t like it at all), bacon in cakes, bacon in cookies, deep friend bacon, chocolates wrapped in bacon, I even seen candy bacon which are large chunks of bacon with a sweet glaze on top of them. They were pretty tasty but it was way to much salt for me. All I’m saying that bacon doesn’t need to go with everything.
These scones would go great with coffee, although I don’t drink coffee, and maybe a side of bacon :-).
Maple Brown Sugar Scones
Ingredients
- Ingredients for Scones
- • 3 ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- • 1/3 cup brown sugar
- • 2 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- • ½ teaspoon baking soda
- • ½ teaspoon salt
- • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- • ¾ cold butter
- • 1 cup buttermilk
- • 1 teaspoon maple extract
- • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- For Glaze
- • 1 cup powdered sugar
- • 1 tablespoon of heavy cream or milk
- • 1 ½ teaspoon of maple syrup
- • ¼ teaspoon of vanilla extract
Instructions
- For Scones
- Preheat oven to 425: Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl.Cut in butter and the dough will become course and start to look like crumbs.
- Stir in buttermilk, vanilla, and maple extract.
- Use your hands and form the dough into a ball and place on a lightly floured surface. Roll the dough out but not too thin and then cut into triangles or you can use a biscuit cutter if you would like.
- Brush with melted butter and sprinkle course sugar on top. Or you can make a cinnamon/ sugar mixture in a small bowl and sprinkle that on top instead. Bake for 12-14 minutes and then top with maple glaze.
- Instructions for Glaze: In a large bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar, heavy cream or milk, maple syrup and vanilla extract. Dipped the cooled scones in the glaze and place on a cooling rack to let the glaze set.
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