Lemon Scones – The Keep At Residence Chef

Our Lemon Scones are the right, straightforward do-it-yourself deal with and prepared in simply half-hour! Freshly squeezed lemon juice and zest make for a vibrant and tangy, not-too-sweet scone. Whether or not you’re grabbing one in your means out the door within the morning or bringing them to brunch, these moist and flaky scones are a no brainer.

For extra scrumptious scone recipes, attempt our Blueberry Scones or our Cranberry Orange Scones.

With step-by-step directions and our grated-butter methodology, this course of is made fast and straightforward, providing you with moist and flaky scones each time. Utilizing a cheese grater or meals processor to chop the chilly butter into the flour is tremendous handy, saving you money and time as a result of we all know not everybody has a pastry cutter available.

Ingredient Notes

• All-Objective Flour: All-purpose goes to be your go to. May also use bread flour, however it’s going to change the feel ever-so barely.
• Sugar: Can scale back by half if you happen to would like 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 prime, helps the scones brown.
• Lemon Juice: Recent is greatest! You need the lemon taste to shine by way of within the dough and glaze.
• Lemon Zest: Freshly grated lemon zest is a should for vibrant, tangy taste. Keep away from the white pith, as it may be bitter.
• Powdered Sugar: For a thicker glaze, add 1-2 tablespoons at a time till you attain your required consistency.

Glaze and Garnish

Drizzle with our do-it-yourself, lemon glaze. This glaze actually brings out the intense, lemon taste within the scone and appears fairly, too. We use a tablespoon of milk, however you’ll be able to go away it out for a extra skinny and tangy glaze.

Sprinkle recent lemon zest on prime for the of completion.

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 vital to attaining the right flaky texture.

This methodology could be a actual time-saver and is very useful if you happen to don’t have a pastry cutter. Actually, we like this methodology even higher than utilizing a pastry cutter as a result of it distributes the butter into the flour completely for simply the correct consistency and flakiness.

Make-Forward Possibility

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