These scones taste like banana bread. These taste so good it's hard to assume there's no white sugar, buttermilk, or butter involved in making them! They're a healthier alternative and come together in 30 minutes!
The recipe is here and pictures of the process are below.
Ingredients:
2 cups oat flour (gluten free) or regular flour (not gluten-free)
1 Tbsp. Baking Powder
¾ cup chopped walnuts
¼ tsp. salt
1/3 cup cold coconut oil or butter
2 medium overripe bananas, mashed (3/4 cup)
¼ cup almond milk
2 Tbsp. maple syrup
½ - 1 Tsp. vanilla extract
Optional toppings:
Sugar
Glaze: ~1/2 cup powdered sugar + ~1 Tbsp. almond milk + splash vanilla extract
Directions:
Preheat oven to 425°F.
Mix together flour, baking powder, walnuts, and salt in a medium sized bowl. Add the coconut oil and use your fingers to break it into pieces, about the size of a pea or smaller, and mix it into the rest of the dry ingredients.
In a separate bowl, mash the bananas until smooth and gooey. Mix in milk, syrup, and vanilla extract.
Then gently mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, just until a shaggy dough forms.
Dust a work surface with flour and dump the dough onto it. The dough will be wet in some places and dry in others. Use your hands to gently fold it over itself, and if you see a dry, floury area fold it over itself until the dough is less dry. Don’t overmix because the scones will become tough. Folding the also dough makes them fluffier!
Shape the dough into a 1 inch thick 6” wide disk, and use a knife to cut into 8 pieces, like a pizza.
Place the scones (using a knife to transfer helps) onto a parchment paper lined, or greased baking sheet. Add a sprinkle of sugar on top of each, if desired. Bake for 15 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through.
Let cool 15 minutes before glazing (if glazing). To make the glaze, mix powdered sugar with enough milk and vanilla extract to get a thick consistency, if too thin, add more powdered sugar and vice versa with the milk. Dip scones in glaze or drizzle glaze on top.
8 servings.
Assembling all the ingredients! I ended up using oat flour instead of whole wheat flour.
Bananas before mashing.
Bananas after mashing!
Before mixing the dry ingredients together.
Mix the dry ingredients together and then add the coconut oil. Use your fingers to break it into small pieces and mix it into the dry ingredients.
After mixing the bananas with the milk and vanilla.
Now it's time to add the wet (left) to the dry (right) ingredients together!
Only mix the wet ingredients in enough to where a shaggy dough forms.
Then dump the dough onto a floured work surface.
Only fold the dough together with your hands until it's just mixed (DO NOT OVERMIX IT!!). Then shape into a disk.
Then cut the disk into a pizza!
Pop them on a prepared pan and get them in the oven!
Scones
Scones while baking. They really puffed up a lot!
Scones after baking.
So cute!
I decided to make a glaze to go on them. I know it's not super healthy but I felt they needed a little extra touch.
Scones after glazing. Delicious!
The original recipe is from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebyxGHiEIO0&app=desktop
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