Carrot Cake Scones – The Keep At Residence Chef

Heat, home made scones are our love language! With spice-infused dough and a cinnamon glaze, these fairly scones are good for e-book 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 amount of flaky, buttery goodness.

For extra carrot cake love, attempt our traditional 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 approach to work, or for a simple after-school snack.

Ingredient Notes

• All-Objective Flour: All-purpose goes to be your go to. Also can use bread or pastry flour, however it’s going to change the feel barely.
• Sugar: Can scale back by half if you happen to would favor 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 high, helps the scones brown.
• Shredded Carrots: Finely shred carrots for the perfect 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 beneficial for the perfect 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 high for the crowning glory. Topping with walnuts ties this complete recipe collectively, with the walnuts within the dough. Nonetheless, you’ll be able to add pecans as a substitute or use a mix of each.

Including raisins to the dough or as a garnish can also be an important choice, protecting in keeping with traditional 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 less complicated and infrequently simpler than utilizing a pastry cutter. Grating the chilly butter produces small, uniform items that blend evenly and shortly into the flour, which is essential to reaching the proper flaky texture.

This technique could be a actual time-saver and is very useful if you happen to don’t have a pastry cutter. In actual fact, 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 proper consistency and flakiness.

Make-Forward Choice

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