These pumpkin scones with maple glaze are fluffy, lightly spiced, and the perfect way to celebrate fall. Pumpkin spice fans unite!
This post is sponsored by Roxbury Mountain Maple. All opinions are our own.
What makes you feel most alive? Asking this question is such a passion of mine that perhaps it’s my answer (how meta is that?). But also: Great conversation on deep subjects. Meeting and connecting with someone new. Creating something beautiful (many times with food). Dreaming up business ideas or creative partnerships. Sharing food with people I love. Gazing onto the blue ocean in Santorini. Geeking out with a great chef. Oh, and baking cozy-spiced pumpkin scones now that the air has a certain chill…for Alex and me, that makes us feel seriously alive.
How to make pumpkin scones with maple glaze
These pumpkin scones with maple cream came about when a family-run maple syrup business asked us to create another recipe using their maple cream. And what is maple cream? It’s natural and simple: maple syrup that is heated and stirred to produce a pure maple spread. The cream has an intensely concentrated maple taste that is perfect spread on PB toast, apples, and muffins.
Maple cream now comes in two flavors: golden, a light, delicate flavor, and dark (our favorite), which is rich and caramel-y. Here, we’ve used them both as a glaze to top pumpkin scone, which are a take on a recipe from our friend Melissa of The Faux Martha. (You may remember her from our podcast on minimalism.)
And let me brag on Melissa a bit: the base scone recipe is out of this world! And our adaptation with pumpkin makes for the fluffiest, scone I’ve ever tasted, with the perfect salty-sweet balance.
To her recipe we added pumpkin, spices, and the maple cream glaze. The maple cream works perfectly as a glaze, even solidifying a bit after spreading. Or, use this Maple Glaze recipe instead!
How to find maple cream
Want to try some maple cream for that maple glaze? You can order some yourself with a coupon code from Roxbury (see below). And it makes a perfect stocking stuffer or holiday gift, when the time comes.
Want to buy it? Check out Roxbury’s Amazon Store for their maple syrup, maple cream, and maple sugar. Enter promo code “maple169” for 10% off your order! Here is the golden cream and the dark cream.
This pumpkin scones recipe is…
Vegetarian. For plant-based, dairy-free, and vegan, go to Vegan Scones.
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Pumpkin Scones Recipe
- Prep Time: 35 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 12 1x
Description
These pumpkin scones with maple glaze are fluffy, lightly spiced, and the perfect way to celebrate fall. Pumpkin spice fans unite!
Ingredients
- 1 large egg plus 1 yolk
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- ½ cup canned pumpkin puree
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Maple cream or 1 recipe Maple Glaze
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- In a measuring cup, whisk together eggs, then stir in the cream and pumpkin. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, spices, and kosher salt. Cut the butter into the flour mixture using a pastry cutter or fork until it resembles a coarse meal.
- Pour the cream mixture into the center, then gently stir until the dough just comes together.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place the dough on the baking sheet and form it into a 6″ square. Cut the square in half to form two rectangles, then place any crumbs on top of one rectangle and place the other rectangle on top. Gently press out or roll the dough into a 6” square again. Cut the dough in half, then into thirds leaving you with 6 rectangles. Cut each rectangle on the diagonal resulting in 12 triangular scones. Loosen each scone from the bottom and place it back on the baking sheet in an even row.
- Lightly brush the top of the scones with the cream that remains in the measuring cup. Bake for about 15 minutes until golden and cooked through. Cool on a cooling rack.
- To serve, spread each scone with maple cream. Serve immediately; scones are best the day of baking and do not save well. (To create the glaze shown in the photograph, we spread each scone with golden maple cream, then heated a bit of the dark maple cream and drizzled it on top.)
Notes
Adapted from The Faux Martha
- Category: Baked
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: English
Keywords: Scones, Pumpkin, Pumpkin Recipes, Pumpkin Scones, Maple Glaze, Maple
Looking for pumpkin recipes?
We love pumpkin recipes! Outside of these pumpkin scones, here are a few of our favorite pumpkin recipes we’ve made:
- Penne with Pumpkin Pasta Sauce
- Chewy Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies
- Pumpkin Gnocchi Bake with Goat Cheese
- Pumpkin Yogurt Fruit Dip
- Pumpkin Sage Stuffed Shells
- Pumpkin Spice Cashew Energy Bars
- Pumpkin Pecan Baked Steel Cut Oatmeal
- Pumpkin Pecan Parfaits
- Easy Pumpkin Hummus
- Pumpkin Pie Mousse Shooters
- Pumpkin Spice Almond Butter
- Pumpkin Pancakes with Maple Mascarpone
Deep questions for Monday morning! I think I feel most alive when I accomplish something – performing well in a race, baking something beautiful, finally submitting that chapter I took too long to write!
Fall morning air.
I feel most alive when it’s fall time and the weather is beautiful! Pumpkin seasons is on the horizon, so I’m totally swooning over these beautiful scones! Maple cream is amazing!
Love your blog. Making this recipe ASAP.
Baking makes me feel most alive!
Yum, pumpkin scones sound like a great pairing with maple. Being from Vermont, I’m a little biased for Vermont maple syrup, BUT I’d definitely give this maple cream a try if I won the raffle…
I love maple cream! These scones sound wonderful!
A fall run under aspen trees + warming up after with a latte and a baked goodie (ahem, pumpkin scone) = Happiness! Love y’all’s blog!
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I haven’t had any cravings for anything fall inspired yet– this is the first thing that sounds perfect though!
This quick bread made even more luscious and special with the maple cream!
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