This is really my mom’s recipe and inspired all my other scone recipes. The smell of scones reminds me of waking up for school when I was little (I was so lucky).
Buttermilk Scones
Servings: 8 scones
Ingredients
- 2¼ cups all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- Dash salt
- ⅔ cup buttermilk
- 2 eggs
- 1½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 zest lemon
- 6 tbsp cold butter
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350˚F, flour a cutting board, and butter a baking sheet.
- In one mixing bowl, combine buttermilk, eggs, vanilla, and lemon zest.
- In another mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and dash salt.
- Cube cold butter and use your fingertips to mix it into the flour until the butter chunks are pebble-sized.
- Add the wet batter to the flour and butter mixture and combine.
- Scoop the (somewhat wet) batter onto the cutting board into a log shape. Lightly coat by sprinkling flour. Using a floured knife, cut the log into triangles or rectangles and transfer the scones to the baking sheet.
- Bake at 350˚F for ~25 minutes until the scones are golden.