Mini Orange Cranberry Scones Recipes

RIDICULOUSLY EASY ORANGE CRANBERRY SCONES

Steps:

• For the scones:
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper (you'll need 2 sheet pans for smaller scones). Set an oven rack on the middle level of the oven.
• Measure 1 cup heavy cream and place in the freezer while proceeding with the recipe. (You want the cream to be in the freezer for about 10 minutes.) Place butter in a microwave-safe bowl, cover with a paper towel and heat on high for 1 minute. If not completely melted, return to microwave for 10-second intervals till melted. Set aside to cool a bit while prepping other ingredients.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, sugar, zest and salt in a medium-size bowl. Add the chopped cranberries (see the note above in the post on chopping cranberries) and stir to combine.
• After heavy cream has been chilled in the freezer for 10-15 minutes, combine it with the melted butter. Stir with a fork until butter forms small clumps or globules.
• Add butter/cream mixture to dry ingredients and stir with a rubber spatula until all flour is incorporated and batter pulls away from sides of the bowl. The batter will be very thick, like cookie dough. Don't over mix it, but you do want all the little flour bits to be incorporated.
• Spray a cookie scooper (see notes above) or large spoon with non-stick cooking spray. Scoop up scones in mounds onto prepared pan. Space the scones at least 2-inches apart to allow for some spreading.
• Refrigerate scones for at least 15 minutes or up to an hour. If you don't have room for 2 sheet pans in your refrigerator, put them all on one to chill. Then separate before baking.
• Bake for 20-22 minutes or until light golden brown. Transfer to a wire cooling rack.
• For the glaze:
• While the scones are baking, make the orange glaze. Combine the powdered sugar, milk (or half and half) and orange juice in a medium-size bowl. Whisk well until smooth to make a thick, but drizzle-able glaze. (If the glaze is too thin, add a bit more powdered sugar, if too thick add add a little more cream.)
• Drizzle glaze over scones. If you can wait, let scones sit for 15 minutes to let glaze set before serving.

CRANBERRY ORANGE BISCONIE COSTCO RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375°F, or 190°C.
• Mix evenly all the sugar, baking powder, salt, and flour. It's even better if you take the time to sift all of them into the bowl. Cut up the butter into smaller cubes. Mix in the orange peels and the butter.
• With your finger, work thru the butter and mix it with the dry ingredients as best you can.
• Stir the milk and one egg, plus the yolk of the second egg (keep the whites, you will need them at the final step) until it's evenly whisked, and add the mixture to the bowl of other ingredients.
• Work them together swiftly, and transfer them to any clean, flat surface in your kitchen.
• Now it's time to add the dried and candied fruits. Work it together, but try to be fast.
• To make the bisconies soft, avoid overworking the dough. Flatten the dough with your hands on the flat surface. Skip the rolling pin. You can either cut the rolled-out, flattened dough into squares, triangles, or circles with a cookie cutter.
• Put the raw bisconies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, and brush them with the gently whisked egg white.
• Bake them for 16-20 minutes in the preheated oven. Take one or two hours and let them cool down completely before serving or eating.

MINI ORANGE-CRANBERRY SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350*. Lightly grease a heavy mini scone pan (or an insulated cookie sheet).
• In food processor, combine flours, sugar, baking powder and salt. Pulse to combine. Add the butter and pulse until the mixture resembles pea-size crumbs. Transfer to a large bowl, add cranberries and stir to mix. In a small bowl, whisk together the egg, cream and orange zest until blended and add to the flour mixture. Using a fork, stir to form large, moist clumps of dough.
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and press together with your hands until the dough comes together. Roll out the dough, flouring as needed, into a 9" square. Cut into 4 equal-size squares, then cut each square diagonally (criss-cross) into 4 triangles. Press each triangle into a well of the prepared pan (or place on cookie sheet without touching).
• If using turbinado sugar topping, sprinkle on scones before baking.
• Bake until the scones are JUST golden brown (about 20 minutes). NOTE: do not overbake as it will result in a dry scone.
• Invert the pan onto a wire rack and lift off the pan. Let the scones cool for 10 minutes. Serve with butter (if opting for turbinado topping) or prepare a simple orange glaze, if desired. Makes 16 mini scones.
• Glaze: After scones are cooled, combine all ingredients. Top each scone with a heaping teaspoon of glaze. Allow to dry completely.

EASY CRANBERRY-ORANGE SCONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, mix flours, 1/4 cup granulated sugar, the orange peel, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. Cut in butter, using pastry blender (or pulling 2 table knives through ingredients in opposite directions), until mixture looks like fine crumbs. Stir in 1/3 cup milk, the orange juice and cranberries just until dry ingredients are moistened.
• On ungreased cookie sheet, pat dough into 8-inch round. Cut into 8 wedges; do not separate.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool 10 minutes.
• In small bowl, mix powdered sugar and 2 to 3 teaspoons milk until thin enough to drizzle. Drizzle over warm scones. Serve warm or cool.