Fresh Cherry Scones
Snacking on your favorite fruit juice or tea will not be completed without scones. These Fresh Cherry Scones are a perfect combination to your favorite drink on an afternoon snack. Try to make your own scones with this recipe.
What are Fresh Cherry Scones?
Scones are known worldwide. These scones are well-known as a snack present in an afternoon snack, a tea party, on baby showers, birthday parties, bridal showers, and even weddings. Moreover, scones are small biscuit-like cakes usually added with fruits. In our recipe, cherry is used to make it more delicious and refreshing.
Using this recipe, make your own Fresh Cherry Scones with an add-in of cranberries that would even taste better than any commercially baked scones. Feel free to jump right to the recipe.
What Equipment Do I Need?
For our Fresh Cherry Scones, you need a small, medium, and large-sized bowls, a colander or strainer, and measuring cups or bowls. More than that, you will also need a pastry cutter or fork, a parchment-lined baking sheet, and a pastry brush. Usually, these tools are readily available in your kitchen, so you do not have to worry that much.
What Ingredients Are Required for the Fresh Cherry Scones?
To make your fresh and fluffy scones, you will need dried cherries, all-purpose flour, granulated sugar, baking powder. Also, salt, unsalted butter, eggs, heavy whipping cream, and vanilla or almond extract.
For the topping of the scones, you will only need heavy whipping cream, sugar, and dried cranberries. These are only a few ingredients but can make great taste scones that your guests and even yourself would surely love.
Should You Put Eggs in Scones?
In our Fresh Cherry Scones Recipe, the egg is one of the ingredients needed to make it. Eggs add flavor, lift, and structure to our scones which is somehow important if we want to achieve great tasting scones.
How to Make the Scones?
If baking is not new to you then these steps might be just a piece of cake to you. The procedures needed to make the scones require a number of steps. The details are in our recipe card below. More so, the basic steps like mixing dry ingredients first and followed by the wet ingredients. Then, molding the mixture into circles, and baking them. Finally, make the topping.
And just like that, after around 45 minutes, your scones are ready to serve. Tap your shoulders for a job well done!
Cherry Scones
Equipment
- Small bowl
- Colander/strainer
- Measuring cups/bowls
- Large bowl
- Pastry cutter or fork
- Medium bowl
- Parchment lined baking sheet
- Pastry Brush
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup dried cherries chopped
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter
- 2 eggs beaten
- 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/4 tsp vanilla or almond extract
Topping
- 2 tbsp heavy whipping cream
- 2 tbsp sugar
- Dried cranberries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees
- Place dried cherries in a small bowl with just enough boiling water to cover them.
- Let stand 5 mins then drain
- In a large bowl add flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
- Use pastry cutter or fork to cut in cold pieces of butter until coarse crumbs appear.
- Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, combine eggs, 3/4 cup whipping cream, vanilla and drained cherries.
- Add mixture to the well of the dry ingredients
- Fold in the wet ingredients with a rubber spatula until all of it moistened.
- Lightly flour your hands and form a ball of dough.
- Cut in half.
- Shape the two spheres into 6 in round circles, be sure to pat it down evenly
- Cut the circles into 6 pieces each for a total of 12.
- Place each triangle on a parchment lined baking sheet and brush with heavy cream.
- Top with a sprinkling of granulated sugar.
- Bake for 15 mins in a 400 degree oven.
- Add extra dried cherries on top if you’d like.
Quick glaze:
- 1 cup powdered sugar.
- 2-3 tbsp heavy cream or 2-3 tsp milk or water. Mix together and drizzle.
