Chock full of apple nuggets and drizzled with a cinnamon apple glaze, these Glazed Apple Spice Scones will send your senses into a frenzy!
From my experience, commercially made scones tend to be dry and lack flavor. I’ve had such bad experiences with them that I’ve boycotted buying them all together and only enjoy them when I bake them myself. In my book, homemade scones trump commercial scones any day.
So today I bring you homemade scones! Not just any ol’ scones…Glazed apple spice scones to be exact. These puppies are crisp on the outside, incredibly moist on the inside, and harbors an abundance of apple nuggets in every bite. Drizzling them with a cinnamon apple glaze really brings out the apple flavor of the entire scone and sends them over the top. Sooooo good!
They are so quick to whip up. Have fresh-out-of-the-oven scones ready for your brunch in less than an hour! It doesn’t get much better than that.
The key to fluffy scones is cold butter and working quickly so that the butter doesn’t melt before going into the oven. The cold butter will melt while baking, creating steam, which results in high rising, fluffy goodness. Since it’s still summer and the days are warm, once I diced up my butter, I kept them in the freezer until ready to use. Then, any time I stepped away from my dough, I stored it in the refrigerator (even if it was only for a brief period) to make sure that the dough stayed chilled to prevent any butter from melting.
Start by peeling and dicing 1 apple. I used Fuji. Then, sprinkle with some cinnamon.
Next, make the dough by pulsing together in a food processor the flour, brown sugar, turbinado sugar (aka Sugar in the Raw), baking powder, more cinnamon, and nutmeg. Add the chilled butter and pulse until pea-sized pieces are formed.
Transfer the mix into a large mixing bowl and stir in cream to form a dough. And finally, fold in the diced apples.
For perfect wedges, turn the dough over into an 8” square cake pan to create the perfect square.
Then, turn the dough back onto your floured counter top (or non-floured silicon mat) and cut your square into quarters.
Then, cut each quarter in half, diagonally. Perfect wedges every time.
Transfer the wedges onto your parchment/silicon mat-lined cookie sheet and bake!
Allow the scones to cool on the cookie sheet for 10 minutes before transferring onto a cooling rack for another 5 minutes.
While the scones are cooling, make the glaze by whisking together apple juice, powdered sugar and cinnamon until a thick, yet pourable glaze forms. Pour over the cooled scones. Take a bite and send your senses into a frenzy!
Glazed Apple Spice Scones
Ingredients
Apple Scones
- 1 apple, peeled and diced*
- 1 ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon, divided
- 2 cups (10 ounces) all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon turbinado sugar, aka Sugar in the Raw
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 6 tablespoons salted butter**, diced into cubes, and stored in the freezer until ready to use
- 1 cup heavy cream
Cinnamon Apple Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons apple juice
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
Apple Scones
- Preheat the oven to 450°F and adjust the oven rack to the middle tier. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silicon mat
- In a small bowl, sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon over the diced apples and stir to distribute.
- In a food processor, pulse together the flour, sugars, baking powder, remaining 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, and nutmeg until uniform.
- Add the butter and pulse until pea-sized pieces form.
- Transfer the dough to a large mixing bowl and pour in the cream. Mix with a rubber spatula until a sticky dough forms. Fold in the diced apples.
- Turn the dough over into an 8” square cake pan and pat down to reach all corners and create the perfect square. Then, turn the dough back onto a floured counter top (or non-floured silicon mat) and cut the square into quarters. Then, cut each quarter in half, diagonally.
- Transfer each wedge onto the prepared baking sheet, spaced 1-inch apart.
- Bake for 12-15 minutes, rotating the sheet half-way, or until golden brown***.
- Allow the scones to cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes before transferring onto a cooling rack for another 5 minutes.
Cinnamon Apple Glaze
- Whisk together all ingredients until a thick, yet pourable glaze forms. Drizzle over cooled scones.
These glazed apple spice scones look and sound amazing! We should try them ASAP! Thanks for the recipe!
Thank you! Enjoy!
OH. So THAT’S how you get your scones fluffy. Cold butter. SCIENCE :)
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Ok, am I missing something? I do not see the recipe anywhere. You describe the ingredients but no where do I see the amounts listed in a recipe.
Hi Iris! Thank you for the comment. Are you using an iPad? It seems the recipes don’t show up on iPads, but does show up on all other devices. I will send you a PDF copy of the recipe shortly and will update the site so that you can always return to find it. Thank you for reading!
when you say rotate halfway through… are you referring to the scones and flipping them? or rotating the pan?
Rotating the pan.
Is the amount of flour used in your recipe 2 cups or ten ounces or a combination of the two? I’m confused by the wording on the recipe. I think you mean two cups all purpose flour (or 10 ounces if you are using a scale to weigh the flour). Is that correct?
It’s 2 cups or 10 ounces. I updated the recipe to make it clearer. Thank you for bringing it to my attention :)