Vegan Blueberry Lemon Scones
- thedaoeats
- Aug 31, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 9, 2021
The perfect tea-time pastry. These scones are flaky, "buttery", and lemony!
These were a huge hit in the Dao House. Our mom isn't a big fan of sweets and pastry, but she loved these. She really enjoyed the lemon flavor and we hope you will too!
These make a perfect afternoon snack or breakfast. The blueberries create pockets of sweetness throughout the pastry and the lemon gives the pastry a pop of zesty flavor. It's hard to only eat one, but these bad boys fill you up!
tips for the PERFECT scones
Solid coconut oil is the key to success. The oil acts like cold butter allowing you to create a nice "buttery" pastry.
DONT overmix your dough, this will cause the gluten to develop and result in a tough scone. You want a shaggy dough that will back into a flaky scone.
Freeze/refrigerate your dough before baking, this ensures that the coconut oil is solid which allows it to create fluffy layers.
Look at those layers!
Serving Size: 8 scones
Prep Time: 50 mins
Cook Time: 35 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 10mins
Description
The perfect tea-time pastry. These scones are flaky, "buttery", and lemony!
Ingredients:
Dry ingredients:
2 cups of AP flour (~260g)
1/4 cup sugar of choice
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
Wet ingredients:
¼ cup solid coconut oil
½ cup almond milk
Juice from ½ lemon
1 tsp vanilla extract
Zest from 1 lemon
1 cup of blueberries
Instructions:
Preheat your oven to 400F.
Sift the dry ingredients into a large bowl.
In a separate bowl combine the almond milk, lemon juice, and vanilla together. Set this aside for 5 minute.
Mix the coconut oil into the dry ingredients until a crumble forms. The coconut oil should be broken into pea-sized pieces.
Mix in you blueberries.
Slowly add in you almond milk mixture until a shaggy dough forms. Do not over mix your batter, this will strengthen the gluten in the flour and cause the scones to be tough.
Form a circle with you dough and divide into 8 even triangular pieces. Place into the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
Bake for 24 minutes or until golden brown on top.
While your scones are baking you can make a glaze:
Mix 1 part confectioner sugar: ¼ part almond milk. (Add in the milk slowly until you get your desire consistency.
Allow your scones to cool for 5-10 minutes, then glaze them.
Enjoy them with some tea, coffee, plant milk, or alone!
Nutrition
Serving Size: 1 scone
Calories: 178
Sugar: 8.2
Sodium: 157.2mg
Fat: 2.2g
Saturated Fat: 2g
Carbohydrates: 34.5g
Fiber: 1.9g
Protein: 3.5g
Calculated through MyFitnessPal
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