Vanilla Bean Scones Recipe
If you love grabbing a scone along with your latte at the popular coffee shop, you'll love our Vanilla Bean Scones Recipe! It's a simple version of their popular breakfast pastry but is easy to make at home.
Making vanilla bean scones is actually much easier than you think. There are a few steps, but they are simple to manage, and the result is a flaky, sweet, decadent treat that will make you feel like you are being pampered. If you have a good quality food processor on hand, it makes pulling this dough together even easier to manage.
Vanilla Bean Scones Recipe
The key to making perfect scones is really in using heavy cream. I didn't realize what a difference that made in flavor until I made this recipe. Do not skimp on this. Invest in good quality heavy cream for the best glaze which will give you the ultimate vanilla bean scones for a treat.
Ingredients For Vanilla Bean Scones
Scones:
- Flour
- Sugar
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Cold Butter, cubed
- Heavy Cream
- Egg
- Vanilla Bean, scraped
- Vanilla Extract
Glaze:
- Powdered sugar
- Heavy Cream
- Vanilla Bean, scraped
- Vanilla Extract
Directions For Making Vanilla Bean Scones
Preheat oven to 400.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
Whisk or pulse in a food processor to mix.
Add butter and cut in with a pastry cutter or pulse in a food processor until the mixture resembles cornmeal texture.
In another bowl, whisk together cream, egg, vanilla scraping, and extract.
Add liquid to flour mixture and pulse until just combined or stir by hand until dough forms a ball.
Put the dough onto a floured surface then knead briefly until dough comes together.
Roll out dough to about 1/2″ thickness.
Cut dough into 8 rectangles or squares. Then cut each of these on one diagonal and then on the other, creating 32 petite scones.
Place on a prepared baking sheet and back 10-12 minutes, or until edges begin to get golden brown.
Transfer scones to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Whisk together glaze ingredients, adding cream one tablespoon at a time to achieve the desired thickness.
Dip cooled vanilla scones in glaze then place back onto the cooling rack to harden.
Serve these vanilla bean scones with your favorite cup of hot tea, orange juice, or one of our many favorite coffee recipes. You can even add these to a simple brunch buffet, or offer up as a dessert treat after school to the kids.
Vanilla bean scones are an ideal simple and sophisticated treat that everyone in your family will love! For a special twist, add just a bit of orange juice to the glaze to create an orange glaze that everyone will rave over!
Printable Recipe for Vanilla Scones
Ingredients
Scones:
- 2 1/2 cup Flour
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1 tbsp Baking Powder
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1/2 cup Cold Butter cubed
- 1/2 cup Heavy Cream
- 1 Egg
- 1/2 Vanilla Bean scraped
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
Glaze:
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 6-7 tbsp Heavy Cream
- 1/2 Vanilla Bean scraped
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
- Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- Whisk or pulse in a food processor to mix.
- Add butter and cut in with a pastry cutter or pulse in food processor until mixture resembles cornmeal texture.
- In another bowl, whisk together cream, egg, vanilla scraping, and extract.
- Add liquid to flour mixture and pulse until just combined or stir by hand until dough forms a ball.
- Put the dough onto a floured surface then knead briefly until dough comes together.
- Roll out dough to about 1/2" thickness.
- Cut dough into 8 rectangles or squares. Then cut each of this on one diagonal and then on the other, creating 32 petite scones.
- Place on prepared baking sheet and back 10-12 minutes, or untile edges begin to get golden brown.
- Transfer scones to a cooling rack to cool completely.
- Whisk together glaze ingredients, adding cream one tablespoon at a time to achieve desired thickness.
- Dip cooled scones in glaze then place back onto the cooling rack to harden.
Other Great Recipes:
- Gluten-Free Strawberry Scones
- Sausage, Egg, & Cheese Make Ahead Breakfast Muffins
- Blood Orange Flavored Oatmeal Recipes
- Copycat Starbucks Lemon Loaf Recipe
Thank you for sharing at #RecipeSharingParty. Pinned Tweeted Yummed!
These Vanilla Bean Scones look fabulous and the glaze kind of put them over the top. Thank you for sharing on Happiness is Homemade link party. Shared and Pinned.
Thanks for sharing!
I love vanilla!! These scones sound amazing! Thanks for sharing on the what’s for dinner link up.
Oh these look delicious! I haven’t really made a whole lot of scones… I’m usually a brownie or cookie kind of girl. However, I’ve been on a huge scone kick lately. I will definitely have to give these a try! Thanks for sharing!
Cheers,
Lisa
Now I want to go bake brownies 🙂
These look delicious. I like switching out the vanilla for almond to make for an interesting twist.
Yum! Thanks for sharing with us at Tasty Tuesdays this week. 🙂
We love scones and your recipe looks awesome! Hope you have a great 4th of July weekend and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday!
Miz Helen
What delicious looking scones!
I love scones and vanilla bean anything is just pure amazing! Happy Fiesta Friday!!
I love scones and I love vanilla, this would be perfect for tea!
Thanks for sharing at #bloggerspotlight