Oatmeal Breakfast Scones with Buttermilk
You’ll love these hearty breakfast scones filled with added oatmeal, toastedwalnuts, and chewy dried fruit. Using buttermilk gives the homemade sconesgreat added flavour and texture, as does deliberately blending the recipe’s twoflours: all-purpose and whole wheat flour. Ready within 35 minutes, the recipeyields 20 drop scones.
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups flour
- ⅔ cup whole wheat flour
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ¼ teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 ¼ cups butter (cold and cut into ½ inche pieces)
- 2 ⅓ cups oats
- 1 cup dried fruit
- ¾ cup toasted walnuts (chopped)
- 1 ½ cups buttermilk
- 1 egg
- turbinado sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400º. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a food processor, combine flours, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon, and process until they are combined. Add butter and process again until the the butter is the size of peas. Transfer to a large bowl and add oats, fruit, and walnuts stirring until just combined.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the buttermilk and egg. Remove ⅓ of the mixture and set aside. Pour the remaining liquid over the dry ingredients and lightly and briefly stir them together, just until everything is moistened. Don’t over mix , it should look shaggy.
- Use a ¼ cup ice cream scoop and scoop dough onto baking sheets. Don’t try to press them down or squeeze them together. Using a pastry brush, dab the reserved buttermilk mixture over the tops and sprinkle them with turbinado sugar. In the alternative, you can divide the dough in half and shape into 2 circles about 2 inches thick. Cut into 16 triangles.
- Bake for 15 minutes reduce heat to 375º and bake for 5 minutes longer until golden brown on both the top and bottom. Remove from the pan to cool on a wire rack. Serve slightly warm or at room temperature.
- You can add a glaze mixing ½ cup powdered sugar with 2 teaspoons of milk. whisk until it is smooth and drizzle over scones.
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Barbara's Notes + Tips
- You can substitute any type of dried fruit.
- Pecans will work instead of walnuts.
- Make sure the butter is very cold and handle it as little as possible.
- Do not over mix the dough.
- If you want triangle shaped scones, pat the dough into a circle and cut it like a pie into triangles.
- A glaze can be added if you want a sweeter scone.
Nutrition
Calories: 259kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 41mg | Sodium: 301mg | Potassium: 185mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin A: 398IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 68mg | Iron: 1mg
