Cherry Scones

These cherry scones are loaded with fresh cherries and have the perfect buttery texture, making for a great breakfast or afternoon snack.

Course Breakfast

Cuisine British

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 20

Total Time 35

Servings

Calories 207kcal

Preheat oven to 400°F. Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
Grate the cold butter using a cheese grater. This is an easy way to get it into small pieces to incorporate in the dry ingredients. If you do not have a cheese grater, you can just cut into small cubes. Blend the grated butter in with the flour mixture using a pastry cutter or 2 knives. The mixture should be clumpy and look like course crumbs. Mix in the cherries.
In a small measuring cup, mix together the buttermilk, vanilla extract and almond extract. Mix into the flour mixture until JUST incorporated. DO NOT over mix, this will make the scones too dense.
Put a small amount of flour onto a clean surface and knead the dough briefly. Shape the dough into a circle that is about 1 ½ inches thick. Cut the circle in half and then each half into 4-5 wedges (depending on how big you want your scones).
Put the wedges on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Brush the tops with a little bit of buttermilk and then lightly sprinkle with sugar.
Bake for 20-22 minutes until tops are golden brown and toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.

Use cold or even frozen butter. The cold butter coats the flour which creates crumbs that melt and steam, thus creating that flakiness you expect in scones.

Do not overwork the dough. Mix everything until just combined or you will have tough scones.

Leftover scones will keep at room temperature for 2 days or in the fridge for 5 days.