Posted on September 6, 2008, 8:21 am

Every weekday morning, after I drop off my son at school, I go to Starbucks to enjoy a hot tea and their delicious vanilla scones. Apparently, it's a very popular breakfast as some mornings they can be sold out by 8:30 am! Nevertheless, it adds up as the scones are not cheap and I can just as easily make myself a cup of tea and bake the scones myself at home. I searched on the internet and sure enough, someone has already mixed a few ingredients together to come up with their variation of Starbucks vanilla scones. So, here it is, it's quite good and takes very little time to make.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar, or vanilla sugar
5 tablespoons organic, unsalted butter, cold
1 cup full-fat sour cream
1 large egg yolk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Scrapings from a 1/2″ piece of vanilla
Rub the cold butter into the dry ingredients until flour is crumbly.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the sour cream, egg yolk, vanilla scrapings, and vanilla extract until blended. Add to the flour mixture and stir with a fork until dough forms a ball.
Dough will be sticky.
Place the dough onto a silpat lined baking sheet and pat into a disk about 1-inch thick.
Cut the dough into wedges but do not separate.
Sprinkle tops with sugar and let stand twenty minutes, so the gluten can relax.
Bake for 15 minutes or until golden.
Make the glaze:
1 1/2 c powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
enough heavy cream to make a thick glaze
Mix all ingredients and spoon over warm scones.

Posted on September 8, 2008, 2:10 pm

Well there goes my diet !