1-Bowl Donut Peach Scones

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Tender and light, these one-bowl Donut Peach Scones are perfect for breakfast, brunch, or an afternoon tea break. Featuring donut peaches — regular peaches’ sweeter, paler, juicer, and smoother-skinned cousin — these scones are lightly spiced with cardamom, and sweetened with honey and coconut sugar. Serve them warm with butter, honey, or jam. Or slather them with our Sweet Cointreau Butter for an extra-delicious treat.

TL;DR Making Donut Peach Scones

About Donut Peaches

Shaped like asymmetrical donuts, donut peaches are flatter and smaller than regular peaches. You can find them labelled a variety of different names including: doughnut, flat, pancake, Saturn, saucer, and white peaches.

How Do Donut Peaches Compare to Regular Peaches?

Compared to regular peaches, donut peaches are sweeter and less acidic. Mother Earth News describes them as “sweeter, with almond overtones.”

Donut peaches are also smoother-skinned with less fuzz than regular peaches. For this Donut Peach Scone recipe that’s a win as it helps shorten the prep time, as you don’t need to peel them.

BUYING AND STORING DONUT PEACHES

When shopping for donut peaches look for unbroken, smooth skin. The peaches should be firm but not hard or green. Don’t squeeze them, as this bruises the fruit.

If your peaches are not quite ripe, you can store your peaches on the counter until they’re fully ripe and ready for baking.

If you have more peaches than you need for these Donut Peach Scones, and you can’t eat them quickly, then you can store them in the fridge for a day or two if necessary, but bring them back to room temperature for serving.

Making Donut Peach Scones

Equipment

This one-bowl recipe requires minimal equipment:

• knife to chop the fruit
• large mixing bowl
• spoon for mixing
• your hands
• scoop for dropping batter onto cookie sheet
• cookie sheet lined with parchment or Silpat

Overview of Steps for Making Scones

Detailed Steps + Tips for Making Scones

1. Prepare the peaches and dried fruit

Start by chopping the peaches into about 1.5 inch size chunks. If you’re using raisins, you don’t need to chop them. If using dried mango or apricot, roughly chop them into bite-sized pieces.

2. Cube the cold butter

Cut the butter into even-sized cubes, about .5 inch in size. Using cold butter is one of the key’s to making tender scones.

3. Combine dry ingredients

In a large bowl, add the flour, baking powder, coconut sugar, salt, and cardamom. Cake and pastry flour add another level of tenderness to these scones, but you can substitute with all purpose flour if that’s all you have. See the Recipe Card below for the amount, as you’ll need a little less.

4. Add the butter

Add the butter to the bowl and incorporate it using your hands (or with a pastry blender if you want).

While you don’t want to leave large chunks of butter, having flattened pieces of butter will make the scones flakier. You want the final mixture to be crumbly looking, not perfectly blended.

5. Stir in the peaches and dried fruit.

Just stir enough to incorporate everything. If you handle the dough too much it will make the scones tough instead of tender.

6. Stir in the milk and honey

Next, add in the milk and honey.

Again, you want to stir just enough that everything is incorporated. The dough will be sticky and wet.

7. Drop onto cookie sheet

The last step before baking your scones is to drop the batter onto a cookie sheet that’s been lined with parchment paper, or a Silpat sheet.

• to make 12 smaller scones, use about 1/3rd cup of batter each
• to make 9 large scones, use about 1/2 cup of batter each

Now, sprinkle the scones generously with turbinado sugar, which is a larger-crystalled brown cane sugar. The turbinado will add a crunchy sweet texture when you bite into the scones.

Bake the Scones

The scones are ready for baking. Bake for 15 minutes, until cooked through and golden brown.

Serve warm with butter, honey, or jam, or slather with our Sweet Cointreau Butter, recipe included in the Recipe Card below.

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1-Bowl Donut Peach Scones

Tender and light, these one-bowl Donut Peach Scones are perfect for breakfast, brunch, or an afternoon tea break. Featuring donut peaches — regular peaches' sweeter, paler, juicer, and smoother-skinned cousin — these scones are lightly spiced with cardamom, and sweetened with honey and coconut sugar. Serve them warm with butter, honey, or jam. Or slather them with our Sweet Cointreau Butter for an extra-delicious treat.

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: 1-bowl scones, donut peaches, fresh peach scones,, peach scones

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

Servings: 12 scones

Calories: 279kcal

Author: sylvia

Ingredients

For the Peach Scones

• 3.25 cups cake and pastry flour (Or substitute with 3 cups of all purpose flour)
• .25 cup coconut sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• .5 teaspoon salt
• .5 teaspoon cardamom
• 1.5 cups fresh peaches, in inch chunks
• .25 cup dried fruit (We've tested with golden raisins, dried apricot, and dried cantaloupe. Dried mango would also be good.)
• 1 cup milk
• .75 cups very cold butter, chopped into small cubes
• .25 cup honey

For the Sweet Cointreau Butter

• 6 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons Cointreau (or substitute any kind of orange liqueur)
• 2 tablespoons coconut sugar (or substitute any kind of sugar)

Instructions

For the Peach Scones

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cardamom.
• Add the butter to the bowl, and using your hands, mix the butter into the flour mixture. You don't want the butter completely integrated. There should be small chunks of flattened butter in the dough. This will help create tender, flaky scones.
• Stir in the peaches and dried fruit.
• Stir in the milk and honey until just combined. Don't overwork the dough.
• Scoop up about 1/3 cup of dough for smaller scones, or about 1/2 cup for larger scones. Drop the batter onto a parchment lined or Silpat lined baking sheet.
• Bake at 400F for about 15 minutes.
• Serve with Sweet Cointreau Butter.

For the Sweet Cointreau Butter

• Combine all of the ingredients in a small bowl. If using coconut sugar, it will not fully dissolve in the butter. That's OK.

Notes

Tips for Making the Scones 

1. Using cold butter will help to ensure tender, flaky scones.
2. Don’t worry if there are small chunks of butter in the dough. The dough should be shaggy-looking and sticky. 
3. Don’t mix the dough any longer than necessary to incorporate the ingredients. 

Storage 

Keep scones in a sealed container. They will keep for 2-3 days but are best eaten fresh. 

Make Ahead

You can make the dough the night before. Put the uncooked dough in a sealed container and store in the fridge overnight. While you heat the oven, remove the dough and scoop on to a baking sheet. 

Nutrition Information 

Nutrition information is an estimate only and does not include the turbinado sugar or Sweet Cointreau Butter. 

Nutrition

Serving: 1scone | Calories: 279kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 33mg | Sodium: 215mg | Potassium: 211mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 450IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 77mg | Iron: 1mg

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