Sourdough Scones – Sugar Spun Run

My sourdough scones are made with sourdough discard for tender and flavorful outcomes. Customise yours together with your favourite add-ins like chocolate chips, fruit, or nuts! Recipe features a how-to video!

Sourdough Discard Scones

To this point we’ve integrated sourdough discard into pancakes, muffins, and brownies, simply to call just a few. As we speak I’m including one other choice to the combination with these beautiful and extremely straightforward sourdough scones!

A unbelievable manner to make use of up sourdough discard, this recipe yields tender scones with a refined sourdough taste. Like lots of my different discard recipes, incorporating discard into basic scones provides tons of depth. They’re just like my sourdough biscuits, however a bit sweeter (they usually’re even simpler to make!).

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• No pastry cutter wanted–a meals processor makes fast work of those sourdough scones! That is my most well-liked technique for greatest and best outcomes, however I do embody directions for the best way to make the scones with out one under. 
• Customizable: preserve them plain or add frozen/dried fruit, chocolate, nuts, and so forth. Lemon poppy seed could be an incredible mixture, as would white chocolate and raspberries. You actually can get artistic with these!
• Might be made upfront, if you wish to prep them the evening earlier than and bake the subsequent morning. Or put your sourdough scones within the freezer for recent scones on-demand!
• Wonderful taste! The sourdough provides depth with out making the scones style bitter.

What You Want

Most of those substances are fairly normal for scones, aside from the sourdough.

• Butter. This must be very chilly! I really freeze mine for about quarter-hour earlier than I begin my scones. Identical to when making my selfmade biscuits or rice krispie treats, utilizing European-style butter with a better milkfat share (like Kerrygold model) will yield much more flavorful outcomes.
• Add-ins. Be happy so as to add chopped chocolate (or chocolate chips) or frozen berries. If you happen to add frozen fruit, observe that your sourdough scones can be extra more likely to topple over (no huge deal) and can seemingly take a minute or 2 (or 3) longer within the oven.
• Sugar. I like my sourdough scones to be somewhat candy, in any other case they’d simply style like biscuits! I add sugar into the dough and a lightweight sprinkling on prime earlier than baking, too.
• Cream. Much like the sugar, we are going to add this to the scone dough after which use it to brush the tops of the scones earlier than they go within the oven. Double cream, heavy cream, or whipping cream will work!
• Sourdough discard. If you happen to don’t have any discard mendacity round, you’ll be able to bounce on the bandwagon by following my information on the best way to make a sourdough starter.

SAM’S TIP: In case you have some turbinado sugar, you’ll be able to sprinkle that on prime of the scones after brushing them with cream. It will give them a bakery-style look and provides such a pleasant texture!

Bear in mind, that is simply an outline of the substances I used and why. For the complete recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the put up!

The way to Make Sourdough Scones

1. Pulse the dry substances collectively in a meals processor, then add the chilly butter and pulse once more. Cease when the butter is integrated and also you see items which might be concerning the dimension of a chocolate chip.
2. Whisk collectively the sourdough discard, cream, and vanilla, then drizzle over the opposite substances. Pulse every thing once more till the substances begin to cling collectively.
3. Check to see in case your dough is prepared by urgent it between your finger and thumb; if it sticks collectively, it’s prepared!
4. Laminate the dough on a frivolously floured floor. Laminating merely means folding the dough over itself repeatedly, this helps create mild, flaky, buttery layers (this technique additionally helps produce sky-high outcomes with my selfmade biscuits). You’ll be able to work in your add-ins throughout this course of, simply sprinkle them over the dough they usually’ll be labored in as you laminate.

5. Work the dough right into a easy disk, then lower into eight wedges. Be sure you don’t noticed into your dough when chopping; simply press straight down and pull the knife straight again up (in any other case the scones usually tend to topple).
6. Place on parchment lined baking sheets, then brush the tops of every scone with heavy cream and sprinkle with sugar.
7. Bake till the perimeters begin to flip mild golden brown. Let cool barely earlier than having fun with.

SAM’S TIP: It’s so vital to (totally) preheat your oven! Baking scones in a scorching oven will encourage them to rise good and tall and have a lightweight texture. Be sure your oven has reached 400F (205C) earlier than you place your sourdough scones in there.

Incessantly Requested Questions

How do you prefer to eat your scones? They’re buttery and flavorful sufficient that we prefer to get pleasure from them plain, however a little bit of honey butter or strawberry sauce (or a drizzle of vanilla glaze in lieu of the sugar on prime) by no means hurts!

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