Are you ready for the best, most delicious, light and fresh lilac lemon scone recipe? I bet you are! But before you start this lilac lemon scone recipe, jump on over to my lilac sugar recipe post so you have everything to make this delicious snack!
This recipe was inspired by seeing one of the Instagram accounts I follow, Minted Photography in Edmonton, when she was making lilac sugar and lilac syrup. I am obsessed with lilacs, they are one of my favourite flowers, and couldn’t pass up the opportunity to try to make as much lilac infused treats as possible!
I even experimented with different colours of lilacs, like I mentioned in my Instagram post, I nearly picked every lilac bundle in both my front and backyard. I’m glad to report that it doesn’t matter what colour your lilacs are – they both produce the same taste!
Though I do love the purple lilac sugar, because you get that beautiful lilac purple colour infused into your sugar.
These lilac lemon scones have the stamp of approval from my kids, friends, and family! It’s an overall winner for a light, summer-y snack. This scone recipe is easy to make, and is perfect treat for potlucks, picnics, road trip snacks, BBQs, baby showers, bridal showers, brunch, or just as an anytime of day snack for your kids. But trust me, you will impress everyone with this recipe once they try it!
Do you have your lilac sugar from the blog post above? Got it? Good! Let’s start this delicious lilac lemon scone recipe!
Lilac Lemon Scone Recipe
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup lilac sugar
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp lemon zest
- 1/2 tsp salt (omit if using salted butter)
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, frozen, chopped or grated
Wet Ingredients
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp lilac simple syrup (can be replaced with vanilla extract)
Instructions
1. In a large bowl whisk together flour, lilac sugar, baking powder, lemon zest, and salt.
2. Chop/grate with a cheese grater frozen butter and add to dry ingredients.
3. Mix together with fork until butter pieces are the size of peas and are well mixed.
4. In a separate bowl whisk together buttermilk, egg, and lilac syrup.
5. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients, and mix until everything appears moistened.
6. Form dough into a ball with your hands, evenly press into 8 inch pan, cut into 6 triangle pieces.
7. Refrigerate the dough in the pan for 10 minutes, and preheat oven to 400 degrees.
8. Place parchment paper on baking sheet, and remove dough from refrigerator. Place scones on the baking sheet and put in the oven.
9. Bake for 16-18 minutes until bottoms are golden brown.
10. Let cool for 5 minutes, and enjoy!
Notes
If you choose to make larger or smaller scones, adjust your baking time accordingly - larger scones will need to bake for 18-20 minutes and smaller scones will need to make for 14-16 minutes.
What is your favourite summer flavours? If you could put your favourite flower into a sweet treat, would you?
If you like this post, check out my Easy Peazy Lemon Poppy Seed Muffin recipe post before you go!
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