1 ½ tbsp. freshly grated lemon zest (I only used about 1/2 tsp.)
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup plus 3 tbsp. sugar, divided
1 tbsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
6 tbsp. cold unsalted butter, cut into bits
1 ¼ cups fresh cranberries, chopped coarse
1 large egg
1 large egg yolk
1 cup heavy cream (I used fat free half & half)
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 400° F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, combine lemon zest, flour, ½ cup sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add butter and cut into flour mixture with a pastry cutter until it resembles coarse meal.
In a small bowl, toss together fresh cranberries and 3 tablespoons sugar, and stir into flour mixture.
In another small bowl, lightly beat egg and yolk. Stir in cream. Add the egg mixture to the flour mixture and stir until just combined and all dry ingredients are moistened.
Place a 3 or 4-inch round biscuit cutter on the parchment-lined baking sheet. Scoop some of the dough inside the biscuit cutter and pat down gently to form a 1-inch thick dough round. Repeat with remaining dough (makes about 8-10 scones), placing dough rounds about 1 inch apart on the baking sheet.
(To freeze before baking, flash freeze at this point. Place the baking sheet in the freezer until individual dough rounds are frozen. Transfer to a freezer bag and store until ready to bake. Simply place on parchment-lined baking sheet and bake as directed.)
Bake on the middle rack of the oven about 15-20 minutes or until pale golden.
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These look great – I’ve never made scones but have always wanted to. I prefer them to donuts and other baked breakfast pastries.
I love scones and have had a field day making them with friends. These look great!
I LOVE scones – they never get a bad rap with me! These look great!
I definitely want to experiment with making my own scones. We like to stop and get them at Panera, but that gets expensive. Thanks for posting!
Hi! I left you a comment re: your party rolls…I’m not sure if you saw the comment but just wanted to point it out in case you can help me! Thanks!!
On the party rolls-I didn’t see your comment, thanks for posting here:) You can easily substitute some other kind of packaged rolls and just put them in a cake pan and bake them that way, I’m sure that will work fine. You may just have to slice and assemble individually instead of slicing all the rolls at once as with the kind I used. I buy mine at Wal-mart and have found them at Bi-lo and Ingles before.
I love scones, we just made some…I will have to whip up cranberry ones next!
On that caesar salad–just beware of the spice:) If you don’t like a kick, leave out the cayenne or just a tiny dash of it.
And those scones look awesome–you think that drizzled white chocolate would be good on top? It would certainly make them healther, right?:)