Eggless Apple Walnut Scones

Bake-a-thon is a yearly baking series headed by Valli during December and I have been a part of it for the past two years. There will be a total of 13 baking recipes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday till the month ends. Since the last post was more related to the UAE National Day, I thought I would rather move the details of the series in this post. 😀 You can find all the posts related to the previous years here. While the first year, I did random posts out of the burgeoning drafts, I focused on chocolate bakes last year, and this year, I am doing based on the theme of individual servings. Just like the Khameer I posted as the first one…

As soon as I had started jotting out my posts for this series, I wanted to bake a scone, and somehow it had to be apples. I don’t know where I got this fixation with apple. 😀 In fact, I do love apple bakes, they rank a close third after banana and carrot bakes. If you ask me my favorite apple cake I have baked so far, I would surely rank this one on the top. 🙂 OK, so coming back to the scones, after dreaming for a few days, I got to bake these when I had taken a sick leave from work. True, baking is a little bit of work, especially when it comes to the cleaning part. But this recipe is more of a one bowl bake and hence is less work. I made these with wholewheat flour and even then they were soft and perfect with a cup of hot black tea.

Before moving to this recipe, if you love scones like I do, then here are some that are already on the blog…

Chocolate Chip Scones

Eggless Apricot White Chocolate Scones – I ate the whole batch I baked, it was that good! 😀

Vegan Cocoa Scones

5 from 1 vote

Eggless Apple Walnut Scones

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Total Time 40 minutes minutes

Servings 3 -4

Author Rafeeda

Ingredients

• 1 cup wholewheat flour
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp cornflour
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• A pinch of salt
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
• 30 gm cold butter
• 1 large apple peeled and grated
• 2 tbsp chopped walnuts
• 2-3 tbsp yogurt as required
• Sugar and cinnamon powder for sprinkling on top

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Line a tray with parchment paper and set aside.
• In a bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients (from flour to cinnamon powder)
• Grate the butter into the flour and rub it in to resemble bread crumbs.
• Add the grated apple and walnuts and mix well. Squeeze with hands so that the apple releases its fluid into the dough.
• Add 2 tbsp yogurt and bring the dough together. Use more as required to just bring it together - do not knead.
• Pat onto the prepared tray and shape into a round. Cut into six wedges.
• Bake for 20 minutes for soft or 25 minutes for crispier.
• Cool slightly and serve.