Lemonade Scones Recipe - whole grain, dairy free option » LeelaLicious (2024)

This super easy Lemonade Scones Recipe is made with only 3 ingredients! I am even including options to make these healthier into whole grain and dairy free scones.

To be honest, scones don't happen too often at our house. Although I have these delicious lemon cranberry scones and even strawberry lime scones on the blog, I haven't made any of these recently.

Maybe it is because neither of us have any English/ Scottish/Irish background, so we didn't grow up with this British pastry.

I actually remember my first time trying a scone was when my Politics teacher in Germany took us to the Wednesday market where the only local baker that made scones had a stand. He bought some for the whole class just to introduce us to English scones.

The next time I had scones must have been when my family moved to Canada. Here the sweetened kind of berry or pumpkin scones could often be found in coffee shops.

My in-laws have a long standing tradition of eating scones on the weekend when they go out for coffee. And every time we visit we gladly join in - but that's usually only once or twice a year.

However, now that I have come across this super easy scone recipe that requires only 3 ingredients (!) I'll probably end up whipping these up a lot more frequently. And the fact that both my husband and daughter absolutely LOVE these homemade scones is another motivation.

How to make scones with lemonade

The three ingredients you see above are all it takes to make thisscone recipe with lemonade: flour, lemonade, and cream. Let me explain a little more about each ingredient.

Flour:

Traditionally, this is white self-raising flour. Well, if you know me and this blog a little, you'll know that I try to use unrefined ingredients as much as possible.

Apparently, self-raising wholemeal flour can be found in the UK, but I have never come across it. So instead I make my own.

All it takes is 1-¼ teaspoon baking powder and ⅓ teaspoon salt added for every cup of flour. And to give these simple scones a finer crumb I actually used white whole wheat flour in this recipe, but I have also tested it with regular whole wheat flour with good results.

And although I haven't tried it yet, I am sure your favorite gluten free flour blend could be substituted, too for gluten free scones.

Lemonade:

The lemonade called for in this homemade scones recipe is not the American kind of lemonade. Instead it is carbonated lemon soda.

Since this a healthier, mostly clean eating site I don't recommend just any lemon flavored soda. Unfortunately, too many consist of high fructose corn syrup and artificial colors and flavors.

Have a look at the ingredient labels on the soda shelf in your grocery store. I was happy to find San Pellegrino Limonata which is mainly made from carbonated water, lemon juice, and real sugar.

• Alternative:
  If you really don't want to use commercial lemonade, in my experiments simple carbonated water (soda water) worked as well. It just doesn't impart any flavor or sweetness.

Cream:

Typically this would be heavy cream or also called whipping cream. But I wanted to see if I could turn these into vegan and dairy free lemonade scones without cream, too.

Well, technically I am still using cream but not dairy cream. Instead I have found canned coconut cream to be a suitable substitute.

Method:

The method for making scones with lemonade is as simple as stirring those three ingredients together into a thick, slightly wet dough. Divide the dough into two and pat it into disks on a floured surface.

Transfer to a baking sheet, cut into triangles and bake - that's it!

While researching different versions of this recipe I noticed that most use more liquid - a flour, lemonade, and cream ratio of 3:1:1. I could absolutely not make this work. The dough was way too sticky to handle.

More often I have also seen these lemonade and cream scones cut into circles (like American biscuits) instead of triangles. I found it much easier and less frustrating to cut this somewhat sticky dough into triangles, since requires way less handling of the dough.

What do lemonade scones taste like

Now you may wonder if these taste like lemon scones. Or maybe like coconut scones due to the coconut cream.

I find neither the lemon nor the coconut flavor too pronounced in thissimple scone recipe. They are actually more like plain scones but super soft and tender.

And this recipe definitely lends itself to modifications:

• Stir in a little cane or coconut sugar, if you prefer sweeter scones
• Add-ins like blueberries, cranberries, currants, dates, chocolate chips, etc.
• Flavorings from extracts to spices

How to eat scones

If I am making flavored, sweetened scones with berries and/or chocolate chips I am usually just eating them as is with a hot mug coffee on the side.

However, in typical British way plain scones are served with clotted cream and jam and usually for tea. I do my own version of this with whipped coconut cream and chia jambut mostly for breakfast with coffee.

My husband loves a generous schmear of butter on these basic scones.

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