Description
This Pumpkin Scones recipe makes the softest, tender, and full of pumpkin flavor scones ever! The pumpkin vanilla glaze puts them over the top.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups of flour
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ginger
- ¼ teaspoon cloves
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup pumpkin purée
- ¼ cup cream
- 1 egg, beaten
For the glaze:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 Tablespoons milk
For the pumpkin spice drizzle:
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- 1 Tablespoon pumpkin purée
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- Pinch of cloves
- Pinch of ginger
- 1 Tablespoon butter, melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375º
- Combine flour, brown sugar, spices, baking powder, and salt in a bowl or food processor
- Cut butter into chunks, and add to mixture
- Cut in butter, or pulse in food processor until crumbly
- Stir in cream, egg, vanilla, and pumpkin until the dough just forms. Don’t overmix.
- Roll or press-out dough into a large circle on a floured surface, to about 1 inch thick
- Cut into 8 wedges and arrange on an ungreased or parchment-lined baking sheet so that scones don’t touch
- Bake in center of the oven for about 20 minutes, until scones begin to brown on the edges
- Remove from oven and let cool
- While scones cool, combine glaze ingredients (powdered sugar, and milk) until smooth
- Drizzle glaze over scones, spreading with the back of a spoon or icing knife
- Beat pumpkin spice ingredients together (powdered sugar, pumpkin, spices, and melted butter) until smooth
- Drizzle over glazed scones