Sourdough Scones – Sugar Spun Run

My sourdough scones are made with sourdough discard for gentle and flavorful effects. Customise yours along with your favourite add-ins like chocolate chips, fruit, or nuts! Recipe features a how-to video!

Sourdough Discard Scones

Up to now we’ve integrated sourdough discard into pancakes, cakes, and brownies, simply to call a couple of. These days I’m including an alternative choice to the combo with those stunning and extremely simple sourdough scones!

An improbable method to make use of up sourdough discard, this recipe yields gentle scones with a refined sourdough taste. Like lots of my different discard recipes, incorporating discard into vintage scones provides lots of intensity. They’re very similar to my sourdough biscuits, however a little bit sweeter (and so they’re even more uncomplicated to make!).

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• No pastry cutter wanted–a meals processor makes fast paintings of those sourdough scones! That is my most popular approach for highest and perfect effects, however I do come with directions for learn how to make the scones with out one underneath. 
• Customizable: stay them simple or upload frozen/dried fruit, chocolate, nuts, and so on. Lemon poppy seed can be a really perfect aggregate, as would white chocolate and raspberries. You in reality can get ingenious with those!
• May also be made prematurely, if you wish to prep them the evening earlier than and bake the following morning. Or put your sourdough scones within the freezer for recent scones on-demand!
• Superb taste! The sourdough provides intensity with out making the scones style bitter.

What You Want

A majority of these substances are beautiful usual for scones, apart from for the sourdough.

• Butter. This must be very chilly! I in fact freeze mine for roughly quarter-hour earlier than I get started my scones. Similar to when making my do-it-yourself biscuits or rice krispie treats, the usage of Eu-style butter with the next milkfat proportion (like Kerrygold logo) will yield much more flavorful effects.
• Upload-ins. Be at liberty so as to add chopped chocolate (or chocolate chips) or frozen berries. Should you upload frozen fruit, notice that your sourdough scones will likely be much more likely to topple over (no large deal) and can most likely take a minute or 2 (or 3) longer within the oven.
• Sugar. I really like my sourdough scones to be just a little candy, another way they’d simply style like biscuits! I upload sugar into the dough and a mild sprinkling on most sensible earlier than baking, too.
• Cream. Very similar to the sugar, we can upload this to the scone dough after which use it to comb the tops of the scones earlier than they move within the oven. Double cream, heavy cream, or whipping cream will paintings!
• Sourdough discard. Should you don’t have any discard mendacity round, you’ll bounce at the bandwagon through following my information on learn how to make a sourdough starter.

SAM’S TIP: In case you have some turbinado sugar, you’ll sprinkle that on most sensible of the scones after brushing them with cream. This may increasingly give them a bakery-style glance and provides any such great texture!

Take into account, that is simply an summary of the substances I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll right down to the ground of the submit!

Methods to Make Sourdough Scones

1. Pulse the dry substances in combination in a meals processor, then upload the chilly butter and pulse once more. Prevent when the butter is integrated and you spot items which might be in regards to the measurement of a chocolate chip.
2. Whisk in combination the sourdough discard, cream, and vanilla, then drizzle over the opposite substances. Pulse the entirety once more till the substances begin to dangle in combination.
3. Take a look at to look in case your dough is in a position through urgent it between your finger and thumb; if it sticks in combination, it’s in a position!
4. Laminate the dough on a frivolously floured floor. Laminating merely approach folding the dough over itself many times, this is helping create gentle, flaky, buttery layers (this technique additionally is helping produce sky-high effects with my do-it-yourself biscuits). You’ll paintings to your add-ins all through this procedure, simply sprinkle them over the dough and so they’ll be labored in as you laminate.

5. Paintings the dough right into a clean disk, then reduce into 8 wedges. Be sure you don’t noticed into your dough when chopping; simply press instantly down and pull the knife instantly again up (another way the scones are much more likely to topple).
6. Position on parchment coated baking sheets, then brush the tops of each and every scone with heavy cream and sprinkle with sugar.
7. Bake till the perimeters begin to flip gentle golden brown. Let cool relatively earlier than playing.

SAM’S TIP: It’s so essential to (absolutely) preheat your oven! Baking scones in a scorching oven will inspire them to upward push great and tall and feature a mild texture. Be sure that your oven has reached 400F (205C) earlier than you put your sourdough scones in there.

Regularly Requested Questions

How do you love to consume your scones? They’re buttery and flavorful sufficient that we adore to revel in them simple, however a little bit of honey butter or strawberry sauce (or a drizzle of vanilla glaze in lieu of the sugar on most sensible) by no means hurts!

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