CRANBERRY ORANGE SCONES – The Southern Lady Cooks

These Cranberry Orange Scones are a delicious homemade treat bursting with cranberry and citrus flavor! Perfect for breakfast, brunch, or the holidays.

Why You’ll Love These Cranberry Orange Scones

These scones are perfect for any gathering but really shine during the holiday season! They are festive, delicious, and easy to make. They have the best flavor and it’s the perfect amount of sweetness and the orange is not overwhelming. These scones are great for Christmas morning with a cup of coffee! You can make them with or without the icing!

Tips

All flour is different and you may need to add more flour to this recipe if the dough is too wet and not the right consistency. You can make these in triangles or cut them into squares. We like to keep the dough about 1/2 inch thick. So you may need to make 2 balls of dough and work with that, or one bigger ball and have bigger scones. It’s totally your preference. We have made them both ways, smaller scones and bigger scones.

Swaps

You could easily switch out the cranberries for blueberries! Also use lemon if you want to make them a little different. This is a great versatile recipe!

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Cranberry Orange Scones

These scones are wonderful any time of the year. We especially like serving them to guests during the holidays.

Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Total Time 40 minutes mins

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons orange zest
• 1 stick butter or 8 tablespoons or 1/2 cup softened
• 1/3 cup sour cream
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup chopped fresh cranberries

Glaze:

• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 5 to 6 tablespoons milk more or less

• Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and orange zest in a large bowl. Cut the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse crumbs.

• In a separate bowl stir together the sour cream, egg, milk and vanilla extract. Stir into the flour mixture with a spoon. Fold in the chopped cranberries and mix

• Turn out onto a well floured surface, add flour and knead several times until you can roll out about 1/2 inch thick. You can roll out in a circle and cut with a pizza cutter to make diagonal scones or you can roll into small squares and cut into 2 diagonal pieces for smaller scones. You can even cut with a biscuit cutter if you want and make them round.

• Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray and bake scones in a preheated 400 degree oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Makes 12 scones depending on size you make them.

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