Orange Cream Scones
Enjoy your morning coffee or tea with delicious and simple orange cream scones, studded with orange zest and cloaked in a sweet glaze.
Ingredients
Orange Scones
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- pinch of salt
- 1 tbsp orange zest zest of about 1 large orange
- ½ cup cold butter grated
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Glaze
- ¼ cup melted butter
- 1¾ cup powdered sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp orange juice
- 1 tsp orange zest
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°
- In a mixing bowl, sift flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Mix in orange zest
- Add in cold grated butter and mix gently with hands or a wooden spoon. Alternatively, you can cube the butter and cut it into the dough with a pastry cutter or two forks until pea sized balls form.
- Pour in heavy cream and egg and gently mix until all flour has been moistened, but it does not yet form a solid ball
- Pour the loose dough on a floured surface. Form the dough a disk, about 1 inch thick. Cut the disk into 8 triangles.
- Place the scones on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Brush the tops with some additional cream and bake in the oven for 14-15 minutes or until slightly golden brown. Place on a cooling rack and allow them to cool completely.
- While the scones are cooling, mix together all glaze ingredients. Spoon or pour the glaze over the tops of the scones and wait a few minutes for the glaze to solidify. Enjoy.