1-Bowl Cranberry Orange Scones (Vegan + GF)
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1-Bowl Cranberry Orange Scones (Vegan + GF)

1-Bowl Cranberry Orange Scones (Vegan + GF)

Cranberry + orange: a dynamic duo! This duo has made delicious muffins, crisp, and cranberry sauce, and now a model new cranberry + orange favorite joins the Minimalist Baker family: scones!

These EASY, 1-bowl scones are fluffy, citrusy, flippantly sweetened, generously studded with current cranberries, and undetectably vegan + gluten-free. Wonderful for trip breakfasts, brunches, and previous! Enable us to current you the best way it’s completed!

Vegan butter, frozen cranberries, orange zest, oat flour, baking powder, salt, flaxseed meal, cane sugar, potato starch, almond flour, and orange juice

These fluffy, tender, gluten-free scones get their wonderful texture from a combination of almond flour, oat flour, and potato starch. We discovered this magical combination (after many rounds of testing) when creating our Gluten-Free Blueberry Scones.

Gluten-free flours, flax meal, and orange zest in a mixing bowl

These scones are fully flaky resulting from slicing chilly (vegan) butter into the dry substances.

Pouring fresh cranberries into a bowl of scone dough

Orange juice + zest ensures shiny, citrusy style all by means of. Baking powder helps them rise, salt offers style, and flaxseed meal prevents them from being too crumbly.

Baking sheet of orange cranberry scones before baking

The final word ingredient is cranberries! Current (or frozen) cranberries are stuffed with tartness and style that’s fully balanced by the sweet, citrusy dough.

Baking sheet of freshly baked vegan gluten-free cranberry orange scones

We predict you’re going to LOVE these cranberry orange scones! They’re:

Fluffy
Zesty
Tart
Frivolously sweet
Simple to make
& Type of wonderful!

Have the benefit of with espresso or tea on a lazy weekend morning, for trip brunch when serving a crowd, and previous! As well as they make an necessary afternoon snack or fall dessert and can be frozen unbaked to quickly bake up when scone cravings come up.

Additional Hand-crafted Scones

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Close up photo of a cranberry orange scone showing the perfect crumb texture

Prep Time 20 minutes

Put together dinner Time 20 minutes

Full Time 40 minutes

Servings 6 (Scones)

Course Breakfast, Dessert

Delicacies Gluten-Free, Vegan

Freezer Nice 1 month

Does it protect? 2 Days

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  • 1 ¼ cup almond flour* (we like Wellbee’s)
  • 1/2 cup oat flour*
  • 1/2 cup potato starch*
  • 3 Tbsp cane sugar
  • 1 ½ Tbsp orange zest (1 ½ or 2 huge oranges yield ~1 ½ Tbsp // 4 ½ tsp zest)
  • 2 ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 ½ tsp flaxseed meal (flooring flax seeds)
  • 1/4 tsp sea salt
  • 1/4 cup chilly vegan butter* (we like Miyoko's // dairy butter would moreover work if not vegan // or coconut oil that’s scoopable — not liquid or frozen*)
  • 1/4 cup orange juice (1 ½ huge oranges yield ~1/4 cup or 60 ml juice)
  • 1/2 cup current or frozen full cranberries
  • Preheat your oven to 350 ranges F (176 C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Put apart.

  • To a giant mixing bowl, add almond flour, oat flour, potato starch, cane sugar, orange zest, baking powder, flaxseed meal, and sea salt. Whisk collectively until completely included.

  • Use a pastry cutter, fork, or clear arms to cut the butter into the flour mixture until it resembles moist sand with some pea-sized objects of butter remaining.

  • Add the orange juice a little bit of at a time whereas stirring with a picket spoon. The dough should not be crumbly, and it additionally must not stick along with your fingers. If too dry, protect mixing or add 1 tsp further orange juice at a time (as a lot as 1 Tbsp further). Then add your cranberries and gently stir to distribute.

  • Flip the dough out onto the prepared baking sheet and use your arms to form it proper right into a disc about 3/4 to 1 inch in prime. Use a knife to cut the circle into 6 even wedges. Then use a floured spatula to rearrange the scones about 2 inches apart on the baking sheet. Sprinkle the tops with a bit further cane sugar for a shiny finish and additional sweetness (elective)!

  • Bake for 18-20 minutes or until fluffy and lightweight golden brown on the sides. Let cool barely sooner than having enjoyable with. These are delicious plain or unfold with a little bit of vegan butter.

  • NOTE: Best all through the primary 24-36 hours after baking. The texture tends to alter into dried out after that. As quickly as totally cooled, retailer leftovers at room temperature in a well-sealed container for as a lot as 3 days, or throughout the freezer for as a lot as 1 month. It’s possible you’ll as properly freeze the decrease out scones and bake from frozen, together with 3-5 further minutes to the bake time as needed.

*Almond flour is critical on this recipe. Cashew flour is the next best suited alternative. Making this one (tree) nut-free is an issue, nonetheless it’s doable {that a} combination of sunflower seed flour (mill it finely in a blender), coconut flour, and arrowroot starch would work. The texture will fluctuate!
*The combo of almond flour, oat flour, and potato starch presents these scones a conventional scone style and fluffiness. You probably can attempt altering the oat flour + potato starch with barely a lot much less of a 1:1 gluten-free flour combine, nonetheless odds are they gained’t be pretty as fluffy!
*If using coconut oil, make sure that it’s scoopable (the state it’s typically in if you buy it on the retailer), not liquid. If it’s too liquidy and pourable, this will negatively affect the scones. To restore, set your jar of coconut oil throughout the fridge to company up for half-hour, then stir and let leisure one different half-hour at room temperature. The oil should be persistently steady, not partially steady and partially liquid. Repeat this course of (of chilling, stirring, resting) until the right texture is achieved. That’s key to creating certain the scones’ texture is great and the dough is easy to work with. (For biggest and most fixed outcomes, be certain you retailer your coconut oil in a cool, darkish place to take care of it on the right texture/consistency.)
*Weight loss program knowledge is a troublesome estimate.

Serving: 1 scone Vitality: 303 Carbohydrates: 30.1 g Protein: 6 g Fat: 19.1 g Saturated Fat: 6.3 g Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.1 g Monounsaturated Fat: 7.6 g Trans Fat: 0 g Ldl ldl cholesterol: 0 mg Sodium: 347 mg Potassium: 240 mg Fiber: 3.9 g Sugar: 9 g Vitamin A: 6 IU Vitamin C: 9 mg Calcium: 181 mg Iron: 1.4 mg

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