There are so many good flavors going on in these breakfast scones. The flavor of maple combined with tender chunks of fresh pear and the crunch of pecans or walnuts- it’s all a great combination! These Maple Nut and Pear Scones are a great breakfast treat or afternoon snack.

How to make Maple Nut and Pear Scones:

Dry ingredients are combined. And then you’ll cut in cream cheese and butter into the dry ingredients. You can use a pastry cutter for this, or you can use your (clean) fingers to rub the ingredients together.

Then you’ll stir in oil, fresh pear and nuts. Buttermilk and maple extract are combined and then added in to the ingredients in the bowl until the dough clumps together.

The Maple Nut and Pear Scones dough is then turned out onto a floured surface and kneaded briefly. Then the dough is divided in half and patted into two rounds.

Each round is cut into 6 triangles and transferred to a baking sheet. The triangles should be pulled apart a little bit, giving the scones a chance to grow as they bake. The unbaked scones are brushed with an egg glaze, a few more nuts and sprinkle of sugar.

These scones bake for 20 to 30 minutes, until they are cooked through and golden brown.

Make-ahead/freeze:

This recipe makes 12 scones. The scones will be good in a well-sealed container at room temperature for a couple of days. If you’d like to freeze them to eat later, wrap each scone individually in foil and then drop those into a large freezer zip baggie. Take scones out to come to room temperature as you’d like to eat them.

Substitution suggestions:

If you don’t have or don’t want to use whole wheat pastry flour, you can use ALL all-purpose flour instead (2 cups total). An even better substitution would be to use whole wheat flour (so 1 cup whole wheat and 1 cup all purpose). Maple extract can be purchased in the spice section of the supermarket. Maple syrup cannot be used as a substitute. Substitute apples for the pears.

And there they are- ready for munching. I think you’ll enjoy this one!

Here are a few more recipes for scones that you might like to try:

Copycat Starbucks Pumpkin Scones Whole Wheat Cranberry Scones Double Orange Scones with Orange Butter Blueberry Lemon Scones Copycat Starbucks Vanilla Bean Scones Chocolate Chip Scones Strawberry Buttermilk Scones Banana Bread Scones