The Vegan Scones Recipe is the easiest bread recipe anyone can try at home, especially for beginners in baking or cooking. They are super flaky, puffy, incredibly tender, and luscious on the inside, with a crisp exterior.
If you’re a vegan looking to enjoy delicious desserts and cakes without using non-vegetarian items, this is the recipe for you. So, without further ado, let’s look into the pile of ingredients that are required to prepare these vegan scones!
1. Vegan Scones Recipe
A few ingredients may need to be added immediately, so it is always better to keep everything well-prepared.
1.1. Ingredients Required
- All-Purpose Flour or Self-Raising Flour: 400 g
- Baking Powder: 25 g or 4 tsp
- Baking soda: 1/2 tsp
- Salt: 1 g or 1/4 tsp
- Vanilla extract or Vanilla bean powder, 3 g or 1tsp
- Sugar (caster sugar or Granulated sugar): 65 g
- Coconut Oil, 90 g
- Plain Vegan Yogurt, 140 g
- Soy Milk, 100 g
- Apple Cider Vinegar, 9 g
- Maple Syrup
- Almond Milk or Oat Milk
- Agave
- Coconut Cream
- Clotted Cream or Vegan Whipped Cream (recipe given)
- Vegan Butter ( Optional )
- Vegan Cream Cheese
- Raspberry or Strawberry Jam ( any kind, according to your preference )
1.2. Step-by-Step Vegan Scones Recipe
- Step 1
Take a fresh, clean mug and add 140 g of vegan soy yogurt and 100 g of vegan milk or soy milk.
Stir the ingredients well, and make sure that both of them are at a cool temperature. It helps the mixture blend easier if the liquids are cold.
Add the apple cider vinegar on top of it, and stir the mixture smoothly for the second time. Once it is smoothed, place the mug aside, and let’s start making the dough.
You can also use full-fat coconut or vegan milk instead of soy milk if you cannot find it in stores.
You can also use unsweetened soy milk. Use whichever suits your preference. Once you’re done, keep the buttermilk mixture aside.
- Step 2
Take a clean mixing bowl now. Pour the mentioned amount of organic, gluten-free flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and vanilla extract or bean powder.
Now, mix all of them together and give it a strong whisk.
Make sure to keep whisking the flour mixture until the texture becomes sandy. Once you whisk enough for a sufficient time, it will smell of sweet vanilla. This confirms that you’re doing it right so far.
Instead of all-purpose flour, you may use wheat pastry flour as well, in case you don’t have it stored.
- Step 3
Now, take a piece of coconut oil, which should be frozen, preferably. Cold ingredients are crucial when it comes to the scone recipe.
Cut the frozen coconut oil into pieces with a knife and make them into smaller cubes since it will be easier to mix later.
Make sure they become chunky and well-grounded after you cut them up.
Pour the oil into the mixture and gently blend everything together. Using fingers is the best option for doing it gently and carefully.
Please be patient when mixing because it may take time as the oil is frozen. But do not worry; the warmth of your fingers will slowly melt the oil, so keep going.
After 5–6 minutes, the mixture should be sandy, but do not overmix it to smoothen the oil clumps. It is better to keep the mixture in a powdery state.
- Step 4
Once all the dry ingredients are blended, add the vinegar and soy milk mixture to them.
In this case, you may use any spoon or a spatula to blend the mixture. Keep mixing the ingredients properly until you get the structure of the dough.
Once the dough is coming up, gently knead the dough by pressing it down with your fingers.
The dough may turn hard and dry if you knead too much, so avoid doing that. Just do it until it becomes a soft dough.
- Step 5
On a parchment sheet, sprinkle some flour and place the kneaded dough.
You may sprinkle some extra plain flour on top of and underneath the dough so it does not become sticky.
Take your rolling pin and spread plain flour over it, too. Now, start rolling out the dough gently. Fold it over in half and roll it out once again.
We are making layers of the scones right now, so the more layers, the better and taller the scones will be.
Fold the dough in half again and roll it out. Repeat this fold-and-roll process 5–6 times.
Use spelled flour, even if the dough gets sticky occasionally.
- Step 6
After repeating the folding process for plenty of time, ensure the dough is thick enough with a width of 1 inch or more. That is the ideal thickness for any scone recipe.
Afterward, wrap the dough with that paper and refrigerate it for ten more minutes.
- Step 7
After 10 minutes, remove the frozen dough and press down the wholemeal flour dough to keep it an inch thick or more. Once you are done, it’s time to cut out the scones.
Take a cookie cutter or a pastry cutter of any size you prefer and press it down to the thickness of the dough.
Do it with all the dough, and cut out small pieces of tall scones for baking.
Once you have them all, you can collect the scraps of the remaining flour and press them together to make another dough of the same thickness.
This process will prevent you from wasting or using the flour dough completely. This will help you save the dough scraps, and you can make more scones as well.
This vegan scones recipe makes 10–12 scones. But it also depends on the size of the pastry cutter you’re using.
- Step 8
Once you’re done cutting out the scones, it’s time to line a baking tray with baking paper on top of it.
Place the fresh scones on the baking tray and place each closer to the other. This way, the scones will rise easily and faster.
Before baking, wrap the vegan scones in plastic wrap and store them in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Step 9
Take out the scones from the refrigerator after 15 minutes. Preheat the oven before putting the scones to baking.
Meanwhile, let the egg wash the scones to give them a vibrant golden brown color after baking.
To make an egg wash without eggs, you must prepare a little mixture. Mix two tablespoons of almond or plant milk with 1 teaspoon of agave.
Mix that well and use a brush to paint the egg-wash mixture on the scones.
Make sure to do it gently on the tops of the scones, then dust extra flour on them. Once you’re done with these, it’s time for the baking process.
- Step 10
Put the scones into the oven at 200 degrees Celsius for 20–23 minutes. Check frequently between the time gaps and see if they have turned golden brown.
20 minutes is the ideal time limit for scones, but it depends on your oven and the baking temperature.
After they are out of the oven, the delicious scones will look exquisite, with the outside crisp and the inside tender and soft.
- Step 11
Now, the most essential part is the garnish. Without this, vegan scones cannot be fully enjoyed. Open the top of the scone and break it from the middle.
Apply a thick, yummy layer of coconut cream, vegan whipped cream, or clotted cream in the middle. You may apply it as per your preferences.
For the last part, spread another thick layer of strawberry jam or raspberry jam on top of the creamy layer.
The jam and cream part depends on your favorite types, so feel free to experiment.
Now, your recipe in a vegan version is all ready for you to try for yourself. It is a great recipe, whether served with jam and cream, orange zest, lemon juice, or extra milk.
Now that we have finished preparing our wonderful recipe for fluffy scones let’s begin making homemade clotted cream.
1.3. Preparing Vegan Clotted Cream
Many people love having these best vegan scones with clotted cream, even though whipped or vegan cream is available.
So, vegan clotted cream has become an essential go-to for lovely, delicious scones. So, let’s hop into the recipe for making your homemade clotted cream.
- Step 1
Take a lot of coconut cream, vegan cheese cream, and confectioners or caster sugar. Combine everything and blend it in a bowl.
- Step 2
Put the bowl in a standing mixer or a food processor, and let the ingredients beat steadily for a sufficient amount of time until the cream thickens.
Let it beat till it gets smooth and fluffy, like the perfect vegan clotted cream.
Yes! Clotted cream is easy and straightforward to make. Whether for vegan scones or any other bread recipe, clotted cream is an ideal, yummy garnish for anything.
5. Final Note
Finally, we have successfully completed our journey of making delicious and elegant little scones. Feel free to experiment, add various flavours according to your preferences, and prepare your own signature scones!
Last Updated on March 18, 2024 by Parina Parmar