Pear & Cardamom Scones: Light and Flaky
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- Опубликовано: 27 янв 2024
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Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 and 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom seeds
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 oz (170g) unsalted butter
1/2 cup cold heavy whipping cream plus more for top
2 eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 pears, peeled, cored and diced
The Icing:
1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
1/2 teaspoon lemon or orange zest
2 tablespoons milk
a splash of vanilla extract
Instructions
In the bowl of a tabletop mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, add the flour, sugar, salt, and cardamom.
Dice the butter and set aside or set in the refrigerator.
Combine the eggs, cream, and vanilla in a pitcher or bowl and whisk together until smooth. Set aside or in the refrigerator.
Peel and dice the pears and set aside.
Start the mixer on low sped and mix the dry ingredients to combine. Add the butter and mix on low speed until the butter is coated in the flour and begins to break up. Do not allow the butter to complegtely blend with the flour. There should still be big chunks of butter coated in flour. If it beats too much and turns into a dough the scones will be tough and dry.
Add the cream mixture and mix until just combined. Add the pears and mix until combined.
There will still be crumbs of unincorporated dough at the bottom of the bowl. It's ok, it will be incorporated by hand in the next step.
Transfer the dough to a clean work surface and squeeze it together taking care not to overwork the dough.
Lightly flour the work surface and the top of the dough and flatten into a round disk about 1-inch thick.
Cut it into 8 equal triangles.
Transfer the scones to a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
Brush the tops of the scones with cream and sprinkle some sugar on top.
Transfer the tray to the freezer while the oven preheats to 400 °F, 200 °C.
Chilling the scones in the freezer for at least 15 minutes will ensure light and flaky scones.
Bake the scones on the center rack of the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes. They are ready as soon as the edges of the scones are golden and the center has set.
Allow the scones to cool to room temperature.
Make the icing: combine all of the icing ingredients in a small bowl and whisk together until smooth.
Drizzle the icing over the scones and serve with Greek coffee. Kali Orexi!
Notes
Freezer Instructions: Assemble the scones and chill in the freezer (unbaked) until frozen solid. Transfer the scones into freezer-safe bags/container and they will keep fresh up to 2 months. Bake them frozen until golden and set in the center. About 22 minutes.
Roasted Pear Alternative: peel, core, and slice the pears into 1/4-inch or 1/2-inch slices. Place the slices on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Brush the tops of the pears with some melted butter and sprinkle with a little bit of granulated sugar. Bake on the center rack of a 400 °F, 200 °C preheated oven for about 20 minutes. The pears are ready when they are golden and a bit dry.
Allow the pears to cool and dice them or cut into bite-sized pieces. Add to the scone dough at the very end as the recipe says.
Cardamom Alternative: feel free to substitute the zest of an orange or a lemon instead of the cardamom powder.
Almond Flavored Scones: Omit the cardamom and add a teaspoon or two of pure almond extract to the egg/cream mixture. Brush the tops of the scones with cream and top with sliced almonds.
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Cardamom is one of my favorite spices!! I think pears and cardamom are a perfect combination! ❤
So good!
Mine too.
Have never been a scone fan, but these look delicious! You obviously know what you're doing. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
I made these last night without a mixer and they came out incredibly delicious. The pairing of pears with cardamom is lovely in aroma and taste.
Dimitra I am so glad that I found this channel!!!! About to make the lemon rice chicken tomorrow. All your recipes look so yummy :) so glad that there are free resources on youtube so that I can learn to make new, healthy meals for my family. Thank you so much for your hard work. Keep it up! 😊🌸
Holy $hit!!! Both a great combination. This is some tasty stuff. Cardamom is pricey too.
Looks great--love cardamom! Going to try this plant-based as I have a family history of Cancer so need to avoid the estrogen and possible BLV in dairy and choline and lead in eggs. Thanks so much for sharing
Hi Dimitra! These looked so good and I had pears I needed to use so I made them. They are buttery, moist and delicious! Most scones are on the dry side but not these! Thanks! 😋
Thank you for this recipe🙂 it looks amazing and I will definitely be trying it
These look so yummy!
I'm loving your videos Dimitra and the scones look amazing....can't wait to try them! Thanks 😋💗
Thanks so much 😊
❤❤❤❤❤❤, you are the best
Looks so good. I love making scones, will try your recioe.
Please do! Enjoy them :)
Anytime I see a recipe that involves dough, I get anxiety. My dough came out so sticky, it didn’t look anything like yours. I just kept adding flour on it until I could work with it. I measured everything exact. I don’t know what I keep doing wrong when it comes to dough. Otherwise, all your other recipes I am loving as always!
Great recipe. Thank you so mutch from good Old Europe. - from Germany.
Thank you!
Interesting recipe. Looks delicious. A bit different to our Australian scones.
Hurray Dimitra! They look so nice, I will be making them soon as I like to have something sweet with my cuppa after dinner. Thanks for sharing.🐸
My pleasure 😊
I made these scones using equal amount of tegulsr & whole wheat flours, using orange rinds, I added 1/2 baking soda, a little more liquid because of the wheat flour, I roasted the pears. I omitted the vanilla & icing. It turned out good; & tasty! I took a oicture but don't know how to send it to you
Can't wait to make it, just a heads up the Ads on your recipe site like to cover the print button, I had to reload the page several times to beat the ad to the button.
TY sweet Dimitroula mou! I'm gonna try making these whenbI get a chance. I need to use up my turbanado sugar.
yes!! Turbinado sugar on top would be perfect!! Enjoy them Tanya :)
YUMMMMMM
Awesome👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🍂🍃🍂🍃
Thank you so much 🙂
@@DimitrasDishes
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These look delicious! in Australia we make our scones in rounds as opposed to triangles.
I've made them round too. I prefer squares or triangles so that the dough is handled as little as possible :) Hope you enjoy them!! I forgot to mention that the dough can be divided so that 2 discs can be made for smaller scones... Enjoy!
I saw "pear" and.clicked so fast!
Oh I love pears too!!!
I want to try this on sunday using whole wheat flour. Any suggestions? Thx.
😋
Could baking powder be used in this recipe, what if I don't have a stand mixer?. 4:43
Yes, a tablespoon of baking powder is needed to make these scones. If you do not have a stand mixer then I recommend purchasing a pastry cutter and using that to incorporate the butter into the dough. You an also do it using your hands just be careful not to overwork the butter and melt it :)
Dimitra, I've no standing mixer. Do you see this working with a hand mixer?
If your hand mixer has a low setting then yes. Mine goes on super high speed and I end up wearing the flour...haha!
@@DimitrasDishes 🤣🤣 point taken, thank you!
Well shoot. Guess I'm picking up pears tomorrow.
Do you have a pear tree?