My cranberry vanilla scones are super tender and wonderful. They are not anything like the hard, dry, cardboard-like scones that you pick up at some of the coffee shops. The flavor is delicious, and the sweet glaze drizzled on top is perfect.
Ingredients needed:
all purpose flour white sugar baking soda and baking powder unsalted butter vanilla yogurt dried cranberries powdered sugar heavy whipping cream milk vanilla extract
How to make Cranberry Vanilla Scones:
Make the scone dough. The most important part of making the dough is cutting in the butter to the dry ingredients using a pastry blender. If you don’t have a pastry blender, you can use two knives instead. You’re looking for a cornmeal consistency before you stir in vanilla yogurt and dried cranberries. Then turn out the dough onto a lightly floured board, knead it a little and split the dough in half. Pat each half of the dough into a round circle. Cut each circle into eighths.
Place the cut dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Pull the scones away from each other a little bit to give them room to grow while baking. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until they are lightly browned.
Move the scones to a baking sheet to cool. Once cooled, make the glaze. The glaze is a mix of powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream, milk and vanilla extract.
The easiest way to add the glaze is to add it to a baggie. Snip off the corner, and drizzle the glaze onto the scones.
I love these scones so much. I hope you do too. Enjoy! If you’re looking for more fall recipes using dried cranberries, you might like to try cranberry bliss bars, cranberry orange shortbread cookies, white chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookies and cranberry feta pinwheels.
