Healthy Apple Cinnamon Chip Scones
Easy, tender scones packed with apple, cinnamon, and caramel goodness! Use a food processor with the metal blade, or mix the scone dough by hand using two forks, knives, a pastry blender, or your fingers.
Servings 16 scones
Calories 114kcal
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour I use whole wheat or '00' wheat flour
- 1 tablespoon Baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 1/3 cup Sugar (I use Splenda)
- 2 tablespoons Ground flaxseed (optional but healthy)
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon Ground ginger
- 4 tablespoons Cold Butter
- 1/3 cup Plain Greek yogurt Whole fat is creamier, but you can use any kind
- ½ cup Unsweetened almond milk (or skim milk or buttermilk)
- 1 Small apple diced divided in half
- ½ cup Hershey’s cinnamon baking chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a baking sheet or scone pan with cooking spray.
- In the food processor bowl, add dry ingredients and butter. Process for 30 seconds until butter is pea sized or smaller and blended thoroughly. **Note if hand mixing: In the first step, make sure the butter is cut into tiny bits throughout the flour. After that, you can use a wooden spoon to stir the remaining ingredients just until a ball forms.
- Add half of the diced apples, the yogurt, almond milk, and cinnamon chips to the bowl and process in short bursts for 2-3 seconds. **Tricky part: Depending how wet the dough is, you can easily overmix it. You want a crumbly ball that just barely sticks together. Too much, and you have a sticky chewy mess. Not enough, it’s too dry and won’t form a square.
- Dump the dough onto a floured board, knead the remaining apple chunks into the batter to have a few in each scone and to make the dough wet but not mushy. You may have to add flour to your hands, the board and the dough.
- Form dough into a square roughly 8" x 8" and 1 inch thick. Cut into 4 large squares then cut each large square diagonally into fourths. Place the scones on a baking sheet or scone pan. I sprinkle them with cinnamon sugar.
- Bake for 18 minutes or until golden brown. Allow to cool on a rack for a few minutes. If you want to drizzle them with a powdered sugar glaze, be my guest. Usually I don't have time for that and our family just gobbles them up as is.
Notes
Best eaten warm. Freeze the scones you don’t eat the first day or two. To reheat, wrap a scone in a paper towel and microwave for 25 seconds for a fresh, warm healthy scone any time!
“You’re always alone in the kitchen...”
...so go ahead and lick the spoon, bend the rules, and turn mistakes into magic. I won’t tell if you don’t.