These homemade cherry scones are super easy to make and are topped with a white chocolate drizzle and a sprinkle of chopped pistachios for the perfect scone bite.
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Follow the step-by-step photo instructions to achieve tender scone perfection. These scones would make a delicious addition to my other Christmas Morning Recipes.
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🍒 Here is why this cherry scone recipe is amazing:
- Easily switch out the frozen cherries for dried cherries, fresh sour cherries or canned sweet cherries.
- Don't like pistachios or white chocolate? No problem! Leave them off. Just brush the warm scones with melted butter as an alternate garnish.
- Perfect for Christmas morning these sour cherry scones can be made the night before to be part of your holiday breakfast.
🍒 Ingredients needed to make scones:
Here is a visual overview of the ingredients in the recipe. Scroll down to the recipe at the bottom for quantities.
👩🍳 How to make cherry scones:
- Pre heat oven to 400°.
- Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a medium size bowl.
- Cut the chilled butter into flour mixture with a pastry blender until it resembles fine crumbs.
- Stir in egg.
- Cut tart cherries in half and toss into a small bowl with 1 tablespoon flour.
- Add cherries to mix and gently incorporate into dough.
- Place the dough on a cookie sheet and form it into a flat 8” circle.
- Use a knife dipped in flour to cut 8 wedges, by cutting across horizontally, then across vertically, then across diagonally. Do not separate the dough.
- Bake 15-18 minutes, check at 15! When scones are fully cooked, remove to a cooling rack, separating them.
- Melt white chocolate in the microwave or double boiler (which is easy to make with a pan filled with water and a dish of white chocolate slowly heating.
- Chop pistachios.
- When scones are cooled, drizzle white chocolate over scones and immediately sprinkle with pistachios.
- Serve and enjoy!
🙋 Frequently asked questions, answers and tips:
This helps prevent the cherries from sinking to the bottom of the dough while baking.
Add milk if needed, 1 tablespoon at a time, kneading the dough in the bowl until it is no longer sticky, approximately 10 times.
To make the white chocolate more of a drizzle, add 1 teaspoon solid coconut oil or solid Crisco that has been melted. Do not allow water to mix with white chocolate or it will seize and become very hard.
For scones, you can use various types of cherries depending on your preference. Some popular choices include sweet cherries like Bing cherries or Rainier cherries, which add a burst of sweetness to the scones. Tart cherries, such as Montmorency cherries, can also be used for a tangy flavor. Ultimately, the choice of cherry variety depends on your personal taste and the flavor profile you want to achieve in your scones.
Fresh cherries will give a juicy and vibrant flavor to your scones, while dried cherries will add a slightly chewy texture and a more concentrated sweetness. It’s really up to your personal preference!
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Cherry Scone Recipe
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Ingredients
Cherry Scones
- 1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
- 3 tablespoon sugar
- 2 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ⅓ cup butter (chilled)
- 1 egg
- ¾ cup tart cherries (seeded)
- 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
- 2 tablespoon milk
Garnish
- 3-4 tablespoons pistachios
- ½ cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 400°
- Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a medium size bowl.1 ¾ cups all purpose flour, 3 tablespoon sugar, 2 ½ teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon salt
- Cut the chilled butter into flour mixture with a pastry blender until it resembles fine crumbs.⅓ cup butter
- Stir in egg.1 egg
- Cut tart cherries in half and toss into a small bowl with 1 tablespoon flour.¾ cup tart cherries, 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
- Add cherries to mix and gently incorporate into dough.
- Place the dough on a cookie sheet and form it into a flat 8” circle.
- Use a knife dipped in flour to cut 8 wedges, by cutting across horizontally, then across vertically, then across diagonally. Do not separate the dough.
- Bake 15-18 minutes, check at 15! When scones are fully cooked, remove to a cooling rack, separating them.
Make the Glaze
- Melt white chocolate in microwave or double boiler (which is easy to make with a pan filled with water and a dish of white chocolate slowly heating.½ cup white chocolate chips
- Chop pistachios.3-4 tablespoons pistachios
- When scones are cooled, drizzle white chocolate over scones and immediately sprinkle with pistachios.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
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Sarah Mock is a classically trained Chef and graduate of Johnson & Wales University. A culinary blogger for 14 years Sarah helps the home cook prepare her recipes with professional results.
d lajoie
seems like a 5 star, in the oven now. but a question remains whether to put in the milk and when. We think that part was left out. since this is our first time to make scones, we hope it works out.