Fresh Cherry Scones are buttery and flaky with a pop of fresh cherries. These delicious and decadent breakfast scones are just the thing to get your day started right.
I love to bake. My favorite go-to, tried-and-true recipes are Amaretta Pound Cake, Easy Strawberry Cake or Key Lime Cake.
Fresh Cherry Scones
But, I love baking just for the fun of it. I like to experiment. I’ll be honest, I’ve only made scones a couple of times. I had purchased fresh cherries and was trying to think of a recipe that I could use them in that Ryder would eat. He’ll usually try anything, but insisted that he had tried cherries before and didn’t like them. {Funny that he always wants the cherry out of my cocktail though!}
Ultimately, he give a good review of the ‘biscuit’ part. He said, ‘Mommie, this is just a biscuit that you put cherries and icing on.’
To-may-toe. To-mah-toe. Biscuit. Scone. eh, whatever…
Fresh Cherry Scones
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 4 Tablespoons cold butter cut into cubes
- 2 Tablespoons shortening cut into cubes
- 3/4 cup half & half
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup fresh cherries pitted and chopped slightly
For glaze:
- 1/4 c half & half
- 1 c confectioners sugar
Instructions
- Heat ove to 375 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
- Cut in butter and shortening until mixture has large pea sized crumbles.
- In a small bowl, stir together half and half and egg. Add to dry ingredients.
- Carefully stir, add cherries and stir.
- Turn out onto a floured work surface. Knead dough just enough that it sticks together.
- Form into a 10 inch circle.
- Using a floured knife, cut dough into wedges.
- Transfer to a parchment lined cookie sheet and bake 25 minutes until lightly browned.
- For glaze: stir together half and half and confectioners sugar until smooth. Pour over scones.
Nutrition
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Laurel B. says
Hello! I was just curious, did you use WHOLE cherries that you pitted? Or did you cut them up? I’m making these today so if you could respond ASAP that would be fantastic! 🙂
Paula says
Yes, I used whole fresh cherries, pitted and I chopped them a little – so there were still big chunks of cherries. hope you enjoy!
Betsy | JavaCupcake.com says
I love scones. I love cherries. HEAVEN!
Paula says
Thanks Betsy!
Cindy Eikenberg says
Hi Paula! Just popping back over to let you know that I am featuring your wonderful Cherry Scones tonight at Best of the Weekend! Thank you so much for sharing these – I can’t wait to try them! 🙂 Hope you had a great Friday!
Paula says
oh yayy!!! Thank you Cindy! Missed you the last week! Did you have fun?
Joan@Chocolate and More says
Paula, I can almost taste these scones! They look so yummy! Thanks for sharing at Thursday’s Treasures, I’m featuring you this week on the blog and FB! Can’t wait to see what you bring this week.
Paula says
Thank you Joan! I got so mixed up with the holiday Monday and missed all the Monday parties this week, so I hope I have my days staight by the time your’s rolls aroung! Thanks for featuring me!