Apple Pie Scones
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 2 cups All purpose flour
- 2 tbsp Brown sugar
- 2 tbsp Baking powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
- 1/4 cup Unsalted butter keep in freezer until needed
- 1 large Apple cored, peeled, chopped
- 1 cup Heavy Cream 35%
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp Icing sugar
- approx 2 tsps milk or cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 F.
- Add flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg to a large bowl and whisk to combine.
- Grate frozen butter into the bowl, then cut into flour mixture with a pastry cutter.Stir in chopped apple.
- Add vanilla to cream, then pour into flour mixture and stir together until dough begins to form.
- Gather up dough with a spatula and form into a ball, use your hands if needed, but try not to work the dough too much, just enough to form a ball you can lift out to your baking stone or sheet.
- Transfer to your baking stone (or parchment lined baking sheet.Press dough down to form a circle about 8"-9" wide.Cut across dough as you would a pizza, with a sharp knife, to create 8 triangles. Separate them a bit so they dont touch as they bake.
- Bake in preheated oven for 16-18 min, on lower rack if using baking stone, or middle rack if using baking sheet.
- Remove from oven and let cool 10 min.
- To prepare icing, in a small bowl or cup, using a small fork or whisk, mix together icing sugar with 1-2 tsp milk, just until runny enough to drizzle over scones.