Everyone has their own strategy for handling Thanksgiving gluttony. Some of us may think that skipping breakfast and lunch and diving into the festivities with reckless abandon is our best bet. Not so! The good news is that you shouldn’t starve all day. That just leads to even more overeating later. You may be able to skip lunch, after all, so many of us eat an early dinner on Thanksgiving, but a good breakfast will serve you well!
These pumpkin scones are a great option for Thanksgiving morning! They are special enough to feel like a treat, but with some tricks, they are a much lighter version of regular scones. I use about fifty percent less butter than most scone recipes, half of the flour is whole wheat and they still taste like coffee house scones!
So, treat yourself on Thanksgiving morning, guiltlessly, and enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner and time with your family.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Pumpkin Scones with Spiced Glaze
Spiced Glaze
Preheat your oven to 425 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper sprinkled with a healthy dose of flour.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients through the ginger.
In a small bowl, combine the pumpkin, yogurt and egg. Set aside.
Add the butter and the canola to the flour mixture. Using a pastry cutter, cut the butter and oil into the flour mixture until the mixture looks like fine crumbs. This takes a few minutes and some muscle. Add the pumpkin mixture and using a spoon or rubber spatula, fold the wet into the dry just until combined.
Spoon the mixture on top of the floured parchment in one blob. Sprinkle the top of the dough with a good dose of flour. Using your hands, shape the dough into a 9″ circle. It should be about 1″ high. With a pastry wheel or pizza cutter, cut through the dough creating 8 wedges.
Place the baking sheet into the oven and bake the scones for 15 minutes.
While the scones are baking, make the glaze by combining all ingredients in a small bowl. Set aside.
Remove the scones from the oven and allow them to cool on the baking sheet.
When cooled, cut through the scored lines and separate the scones. Drizzle each scone with glaze. Eat. Enjoy. Be thankful.
Notes:
- Delicious things to add to these scones: dried cranberries, raisins, walnuts or pecans. I’d start with a half cup.
- I use almond or coconut milk a lot. So, that’s what I use in the glaze. Regular milk works fine too.
Hello! These look delicious. Is there a substitute that might work for the yogurt? maybe sour cream? Thanks!
Hi Cary! So glad you want to give these a try! I’ve only tested the recipe using yogurt, but I’ve used sour cream in baking recipes quite a bit and love the tenderness it can create. I’m sure it would work in this recipe. If you make them, I’d love to hear how they turn out!
Hi. Great blog. These breakfast thingys look awesome. Going to try them. Sort of on a pumpkin kick at my house. Looks like an non fussy way to do breakfast too :) Do you think they would freeze okay? I have a smaller family and freezing half would help for not over-eating LOL.
Thanks so much Stephanie for the sweet compliments! I love these scones and so happy you’re going to try them! Freezing is such a great idea for portion control. I do that often too, although, I haven’t frozen these specifically, but I am quite sure they’d freeze fine. If you give it a try, let me know. I’d love to hear your results!
can you use soy flour in place of the other flour? I have a family member how is unable to eat gluten.
Great question, Jessie. I know a lot of people cannot eat gluten. I have to say, I haven’t tested this recipe with anything other than the whole wheat and all purpose flours, but I did some poking around and found that to replace all purpose flour with soy flour, use 3/4 C. of soy flour for every 1 C. of all purpose. So, if you want, you can try this recipe by substituting the 2 C. of both flours for 1 1/2 C. of soy flour. I cannot guarantee your results, but if you do try it, please come back and let me know how it turned out! I’d love to hear from you. Best of luck!
These scones look like the perfect treat with tea or coffee!
Thanks so much Marnely! I’m so flattered that you like them!
Yum these looks amazing. Gonna try these later today :)
Thank you so much! I hope you love them. They are an easy scone to make and really light and healthy. Let me know how they turn out! :D