Carrot Cake Scones – The Keep At Residence Chef

Heat, selfmade 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 buddies. Made with freshly-grated carrots and chilled butter, these scones are tremendous moist with simply the correct quantity 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 evening earlier than, otherwise you’re warming up leftovers from the freezer, you’ll have heat, selfmade scones able to go in minutes! We love these scones for his or her versatility and ease. Good for breakfast, to take in your strategy to work, or for a straightforward after-school snack.

Ingredient Notes

• All-Objective Flour: All-purpose goes to be your go to. May also use bread or pastry flour, however it’s going to change the feel barely.
• Sugar: Can scale back by half should you 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.
• Shredded Carrots: Finely shred carrots for the very best consistency and texture.
• Walnuts: They not solely add texture but in addition 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 really useful for the very best style, however synthetic vanilla can be utilized in a pinch.

Glaze and Additions

Drizzle with our selfmade, cinnamon glaze. This glaze actually brings out the spices within the scone and appears fairly, too.

Sprinkle chopped walnuts on prime for the crowning glory. Topping with walnuts ties this entire recipe collectively, with the walnuts within the dough. Nevertheless, you possibly can add pecans as a substitute or use a mixture of each.

Including raisins to the dough or as a garnish can also be a terrific 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 easier and sometimes simpler than utilizing a pastry cutter. Grating the chilly butter produces small, uniform items that blend evenly and rapidly into the flour, which is essential to attaining the proper flaky texture.

This technique is usually a actual time-saver and is very helpful should you don’t have a pastry cutter. In reality, 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 best consistency and flakiness.

Make-Forward Choice

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