Lemon Almond Buttermilk Scones
 
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Serves: 9-18
What You Need
  • FOR SCONE DOUGH
  • 2½ Cups of All-purpose Flour
  • ¼ Cup white sugar
  • ½ Teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
  • ½ Cup Buttermilk
  • 1 egg yolk
  • ½ Cup (1 stick) grated or finely chopped COLD unsalted butter
  • Lemon zest from 1 lemon
  • ¼ Cup almonds, rough chopped
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • FOR GLAZE:
  • 8 Tablespoons confectioner's sugar
  • Juice of ½ lemon
What to Do
  1. Preheat your oven to 350 and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. (no parchment paper? That's ok. Just butter & flour the baking sheet.
  2. Grate your butter (I've found that the EASIEST way is to grate butter while it's been in the fridge... so not frozen but still cold. Then put it in the freezer to harden. You can also cut frozen butter into tiny pieces. The Cold butter expands as it bakes and causes the dough to rise and be fluffy. Same idea works in biscuits.
  3. Mix the dry ingredients together (flour, sugar, baking powder, salt) in a large bowl. Add in the butter and mix with your hands until it's a course meal, like little pea sized pieces of dough.
  4. Pour in your buttermilk, vanilla, egg yolk, and lemon zest and mix thoroughly with a fork.
  5. Mix in the lemon zest and almond pieces.
  6. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and press with your hands until it's in a flat square shape about 7"x7" Using a large knife, cut the square into smaller squares (Currence recommends 9) and then cut those squares along the diagonal to make triangles.
  7. Brush the tops with the egg white or melted butter and sprinkle with sugar.
  8. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes or until brown.
  9. MAKE THE GLAZE
  10. Mix the powdered/confectioner's sugar and lemon juice together until you have a thick slurry. Drizzle over the slightly cooled Scones and serve.
Recipe by Mess of Greens at https://www.messofgreensblog.com/?p=1464