Best Walnut Scones Recipes

CRANBERRY-WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425°. Pour water over cranberries in 1-quart microwavable dish; cover with plastic wrap, folding back one side to vent. Microwave on High 1 minute. Uncover cranberries; cool.
• Mix Bisquick mix, sugar and cinnamon in large bowl. Cut in 3 tablespoons butter, using pastry blender or crisscrossing 2 knives, until mixture looks like fine crumbs. Stir in butter-milk, vanilla, cranberries and walnuts just until moistened.
• Drop dough by 1/4 cupfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. Sprinkle with additional sugar if desired. Bake 10 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Brush 1 tablespoon melted butter over warm scones and sprinkle with sugar if desired.

MAPLE WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• Set oven rack to lower center of oven. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Toast walnuts on a baking sheet in the preheated oven for 3 to 5 minutes. Cool.
• Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Toss butter pieces in the flour mixture to coat. Use a pastry blender to cut in the butter until the mixture resembles fine crumbs. Stir in toasted walnuts. Beat egg in a large bowl. Mix in the half-and-half, 1 teaspoon maple extract, and vanilla extract. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, mixing just until blended, switching from a spoon to your hands as the mixture comes together. Place dough in refrigerator for 10 minutes.
• Roll chilled dough into a ball on a lightly floured surface. Flatten dough into a 3/4 inch circle. Cut into 8 wedges.
• Bake scones on a parchment lined baking sheet just until firm and the bottoms are lightly browned, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool for 3 minutes before transferring to cooling racks.
• Stir together the confectioners' sugar, hot water, and 1/8 teaspoon maple extract. Drizzle on scones to glaze.

DRIED CRANBERRY, WALNUT, AND LEMON SCONES

Steps:

• Position rack in top third of oven; preheat to 375°F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Whisk 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 tablespoon lemon juice in bowl for glaze.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, lemon peel, salt, and 1 cup sugar in large bowl. Add chilled butter; using fingertips, rub in until coarse meal forms. Mix in cranberries and walnuts. Add 1/2 cup half and half and1 tablespoon lemon juice. Toss with fork until dough comes together in moist clumps, adding more half and half if dough is dry. Gather dough into ball; divide in half. Press out each half on floured surface to 6-inch-diameter (1-inch-high) round. Cut each round into 6 wedges. Transfer to baking sheet; brush with glaze.
• Bake scones until golden and tester comes out clean, about 18 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

WALNUT RAISIN SCONES

Steps:

• In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and lemon peel.
• With a pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Mix in all but 2 tablespoons of the nuts and the raisins. Mix in buttermilk with fork.
• Gather the dough into a ball and knead for about 2 minutes on lightly floured board.
• Roll or pat out 3/4 inch thick. With a chef's knife cut into 3 inch triangles. Place, spaced 1inch apart, on a greased baking sheet. Brush tops with remaining 1 tablespoon buttermilk; sprinkle with the remaining sugar and the nuts.
• Bake in center of 425 degree F (220 degrees C) oven about 15 minutes or until nicely browned. Serve warm with butter or jam.

CINNAMON WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the first six ingredients; cut in butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. , Combine eggs and cream; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. Turn onto a floured surface; gently pat into a 7-in. circle, 3/4-in. thick. Cut into eight wedges. , Separate wedges; place on a lightly greased baking sheet. Brush tops with buttermilk. Let stand for 15 minutes. Bake at 450° for 14-16 minutes or until golden brown.

EASY APPLE CINNAMON WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400.
• Mix dry ingredients together (oatmeal, flours, baking powder, cinnamon). Stir oil into dry ingredients well. Add apple, cinnamon chips, and walnuts and stir. Add vanilla to milk, and combine with the dry ingredients; stir until the dry ingredients are damp.
• Drop into four mounds on parhment paper lined or greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with sugar.
• Bake at 400 for 20 minutes, until lightly browned.

CINNAMON WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the first six ingredients, cut in butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Combine eggs and cream, stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
• Turn onto a floured surface, gently pat into a 7-inch circle, 3/4 inch thick.
• Cut tino 8 wedges.
• Separate wedges, place on a greased baking sheet.
• Brush top with buttermilk and let rest 15 minutes.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 14-16 minutes, or until golden brown.

DRIED CRANBERRY, WALNUT, AND LEMON SCONES

Steps:

• Position rack in top third of oven; preheat to 375°F Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Whisk 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 tablespoon lemon juice in bowl for glaze.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, lemon peel, salt, and 1 cup sugar in large bowl. Add chilled butter; using fingertips, rub in until coarse meal forms or use pastry cutter to cut in butter.
• Mix in cranberries and walnuts. Add 1/2 cup half and half and1 tablespoon lemon juice.
• Toss with fork until dough comes together in moist clumps, adding more half and half if dough is dry.
• Gather dough into ball; divide in half. Press out each half on floured surface to 6-inch-diameter (1-inch-high) round.
• Cut each round into 6 wedges. Transfer to baking sheet; brush with glaze.
• Bake scones until golden and tester comes out clean, about 18 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7 and lightly dust a baking sheet with flour. Mix the flour, baking powder and a good pinch of salt in a large bowl. Add the butter and rub together with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the chopped walnuts and the milk, mix together using a cutlery knife until clumping together, then tip onto your work surface and squash together to form a ball - try not to work the dough too much or your scones will be heavy. Flatten the dough a little with your hand to make a disc roughly 3cm thick, then use a sharp knife to cut into 6 triangles.
• Transfer to a baking sheet, brush with a little beaten egg, then place a walnut half on each scone. Bake for 15 mins until golden and puffed, then transfer to a wire rack to cool. Serve with soft goat's cheese and fig jam, if you like.

WALNUT, GOLDEN RAISIN, AND FENNEL SEED SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Butter large baking sheet. Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in large bowl to blend. Add butter. Using fingertips, blend mixture until coarse meal forms. Whisk egg yolks and buttermilk in small bowl to blend. Slowly stir egg mixture into flour mixture. Gently stir in raisins, walnuts, and fennel seeds. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface and knead gently just until smooth, about 4 turns. Divide dough in half; pat each half into 6-inch round. Cut each round into 6 wedges. Transfer scones to prepared baking sheet. Brush with egg glaze. Bake until scones are light brown, about 17 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

CRANBERRY-WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Add water to cranberries; stir. Let stand 10 min. Meanwhile, mix flour, sugar and baking powder in large bowl. Cut in butter with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Drain cranberries; discard liquid. Add to flour mixture with nuts; mix well. Add yogurt and cream; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened.
• Divide dough into 3 pieces. Pat each piece into 6-inch round on floured surface; cut into 8 wedges. Place, 2 inches apart, on baking sheet; brush with egg.
• Bake 15 to 18 min. or until lightly browned. Serve warm.

MAPLE WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 375°F.
• Grease and flour a cookie sheet.
• Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl and blend with a whisk.
• Cut in butter with a pastry blender or two knives.
• In a separate bowl beat the eggs; blend in syrup and cream.
• Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the wet ingredients all at once.
• Mix in walnuts and stir just enough to blend together.
• Gather the dough into a ball and roll out between two pieces of waxed paper forming a circle about 1 1/2-inches thick.
• Cut into 8 pie shaped pieces and place on the prepared cookie sheet.
• Brush tops with additional syrup and bake for 20 minutes.

APPLE-WALNUT DROP SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment.
• Sift together the flours, baking powder, baking soda, sugar and salt. Dump anything remaining in the sifter into the bowl with the sifted ingredients. Place in a food processor fitted with the steel blade or in a standing mixer fitted with the paddle. Add the walnut oil, butter and lemon zest and mix at medium speed or pulse in the food processor until the mixture is crumbly.
• Combine the buttermilk and vanilla, and with the machine running, add the liquid to the flour mixture. Mix just until the ingredients come together. Stop the machine and add the apple and walnuts, then mix or pulse to combine.
• Drop by heaped tablespoons onto the baking sheet and bake 15 to 20 minutes, until lightly browned. Remove from the heat and allow to cool, or serve warm.

LEMON-WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• Sift together flour, brown sugar, baking powder, soda and salt.
• Blend in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal and stir in whole wheat flour, bran, walnuts and raisins.
• In a small bowl, whisk together lemon rind, egg and buttermilk.
• Add to flour mixture and stir with a fork until it just forms a sticky but manageable dough.
• Knead dough lightly on a floured surface for 30 seconds and pat gently into a ¾ inch thick round.
• Cut out rounds with a 2 – 2 ¼ inch cutter dipped in flour and arrange on a buttered baking sheet.
• Form scraps into a ball, reshape and cut more rounds.
• Brush tops with egg wash and bake in the middle of a preheated 390F oven for 15-17 minutes, or until golden.
• Serve warm.

DATE & WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• Prehaeat fan forced oven to 180c.
• Sift the flour, salt and sugar into a bowl. Add the dates, walnuts and lemon zest & mix lightly. Make a well in the centre of the mixture and set bowl aside.
• Whisk the milk, cream and the eggs in a seperate small bowl and pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture.
• Using your fingertips, gently draw the flour mixture into the milk mixture to form a soft dough. (Do not overwork the dough or scones will be too tough).
• Tip the dough onto a clean, floured work surface and gently form into a ball. Press dough lightly using fingertips ~ just to flatten dough.
• Gently roll out the dough until 2-3cm thick then using a 5-6cm scone cutter cut the dough into rounds. Place rounds on a non stick baking tray and brush each round with a little milk.
• Bake scones for 20 minutes or until golden.
• Serve warm with favourite topping.

APRICOT WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• Combine both flours, sugar, baking soda, and salt.
• Cut butter into flour mixture till it resembles large crumbs.
• Coat apricot pieces with 1 or 2 tbs flour to keep from sticking together. Add apricots and walnuts to flour mixture.
• In a separate container, beat 1 egg and mix with cream. Drizzle into flour mixture and mix gently. Turn out mixture onto lightly floured cutting board.
• Gently knead dough just till it sticks together. Be sure to turn the dough on the board so it doesn't stick. Add a little more flour to the board if required. Pat or roll out dough to an approximate thickness of 3/4 inches thick. Cut out scones with a 2" floured cutter.
• Place scones on a baking sheet. Lining sheet with parchment paper or silicone liner helps keeps bottoms from getting too dark.
• If desired, brush tops of scones with mixture of 1 egg beaten with 1 tbs water.
• Bake at 425 degrees F for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden. Cool on wire rack.

CRANBERRY WALNUT SCONES (GIFT MIX IN A JAR)

Steps:

• Creating the Gift in a Jar:
• Wash and thoroughly dry a 1-quart wide-mouth canning jar.
• Layer the ingredients in the jar as listed above starting with the flour, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, baking powder, sugar, walnuts and then cranberries - make sure to press firmly with a flat bottomed object after each addition; make the layers as level as possible.
• Secure the lid and decorate as desired; attach the instructions for making these cookies found below.
• CRANBERRY WALNUT SCONES GIFT TAG:
• Additional ingredients to be added by the recipient: 1/2 cup cold butter, 3/4 cup buttermilk, 1 egg, separated and 2 tsp sugar.
• CRANBERRY WALNUT SCONES INSTRUCTIONS:
• Preheat oven to 375.
• Place the contents of the jar in a large bowl and stir to combine.
• Using a pastry blender or fork, cut in the butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Stir in buttermilk and egg yolk just to moisten.
• Turn the dough onto a greased cookie sheet and use the back of a wood spoon to pat into an 8-inch round.
• Score it into 8 wedges without cutting through.
• Beat the egg white slightly and brush over the dough.
• Sprinkle with the sugar and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
• Cool for 5 minutes, cut into scones and serve warm; or cool completely and store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.

CRANBERRY & WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 400°F Coat baking sheets with cooking spray.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and sugar in a medium bowl; cut in margarine with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in cranberries.
• Add buttermilk and vanilla, stirring with a fork until dry ingredients are moistened.
• Spoon 2 heaping tablespoonfuls of dough, 2 inches apart, onto baking sheets coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle evenly with walnuts and 1 ½ teaspoons sugar.
• Bake at 400F for 15 to 17 minutes or until golden. Makes 12 scones.

APRICOT WALNUT SCONES

Steps:

• -Preheat oven to 400 degrees F -In a large bowl, mix all dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, salt.) -Using a fork or a pastry blender, cut the butter into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. -In a small bowl, mix the wet ingredients well (milk, eggs, vanilla extract.) -Gradually add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, using only as much of the wet ingredients as needed to make a stiff dough. -Knead the dough to make it smooth. -Mix the apricots and the walnuts in a bowl and gently knead them into the dough. -On a floured board, roll the dough out into a circle that is 3/4 in thick. -Cut in half, and then into wedges. -Place on cookie sheet, spray with cooking spray and sprinkle with sugar. -Cook for 15 to 20 minutes until lightly golden.

WALNUT AND CINNAMON SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees celcius.
• Take a mixing bowl and put the Flour, Sugar, Baking powder, butter and the salt and mix until it resembles a crumbly texture.
• Secondly add your crushed walnuts and cinnamon and mix contently.
• Then add your syrup, milk and water in constantly mixin until a doughy mixture is resembled.
• Roll out and evenly cut equal cirles and place on a well greased baking tray approximately 3.5cm apart.
• Whisk one egg repeatedly and paste the scones ... this is to give the scones a glaze whilst they cook
• sprinkle sugar over your scones
• And finally place on the middle shelf and leave for 20 - 25 minutes untill golden brown.
• Enjoy !