Last week I made vanilla bean scones. Like I have said before, I am not the best when it comes to making things in the kitchen, BUT these turned out pretty good. I got the recipe off of Pinterest and have made them a few times since then.
Ingredients~
Scones
2C Flour
1/3C Sugar
1½ tsp. Baking Powder
½ tsp. Salt ( I use coarse sea salt)
½C (1 stick) Unsalted butter- cut into cubes
½C Cold, heavy whipping cream
2 tsp. Vanilla extract
Frosting
1C Powdered sugar
Seeds scraped from 1 vanilla bean
2 tbs. Milk (I use oat milk)
After combining all of the dry ingredients in the KitchenAid, I threw in the butter and then streamed in the heavy whipping cream. Next, I added the vanilla extract and pre- heated the oven to 370°F. Once the dough made itself into a ball, turn the mixer off and separate the dough into two disk like shapes, about 1 inch high. Then, use a dough cutter (I used a plastic one with some oil on it so the dough wouldn’t stick) and cut the dough into sixths. I lined the cookie sheet with parchment paper (so the scones wouldn’t stick) and placed them in the oven. The recipe calls for the scones to bake for 16- 20 minutes. I usually cook them for about 16- 18 minutes or until the bottoms turn the slightest hint of brown. While the scones are baking in the oven, I wash the mixing bowl and prepare the frosting. For the frosting, you add your powder sugar, vanilla bean seeds, and milk. Let the mixer incorporate all of those ingredients until the frosting is a semi- thickish, gooey texture. After the scones are done baking, take them out, let them cool for a few minutes and then take each one, turn it upside down, dip into the frosting, and viola, vanilla bean scones!
Give it a try!
xoxo,e
