Y’all. This is, hands down, my best scone recipe to date. I may just give up on making any other scone for the rest of my life…and I’m only 10% kidding on that one. Really.
Picture this: moist and flaky, dense and airy, with the perfect crumb. Tasting ever so lightly of coconut – but not overpowering. Buttery. Warm. Drizzled with a simple glaze, a pat of butter, or just eaten plain. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Crisp, chewy, crumbly.
Y’all, I know on here I can be a tad dramatic, but this scone takes the cake. And all I’m sayin’ is you need to make them STAT.
It’s love on a plate…and who can turn down love on a plate?
That’s what I thought…let’s get rollin’!
THE ULTIMATE COCONUT SCONES
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 5 Tbsp butter, cut into cubes and very cold
- 1 cup full-fat coconut milk (yes, you can use the coconut milk chunks) (you really should use full-fat if you want full flavor!)
- 1/2 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
Preheat your oven to 450. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat. In a food processor pulse together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add in the butter and pulse a few times until the mixture is crumbly. Add the shredded coconut and pulse 2-3 times, just to mix. Pour into a large bowl and add the coconut milk; using a spoon mix together until the dry ingredients are incorporated. Press into a 9-inch circle and cut into eighths. Place on baking sheet and bake 12-15 minutes or until the bottoms are just slightly browned. Serve hot with a simple glaze of powdered sugar and milk, with a pat of butter, or just plain!
Have I mentioned these are perfect and fail-proof yet? Oh, I did? About a million times? Good – just wanted to make sure y’all were listening 🙂
Hi, I have some coconut extract, any use in this recipe for that? Thanks.
Hey Liz! I don’t see why not – just a drop or two should be good!
These are the best scones EVER! I finish mine with a ginger glaze (coconut milk, powdered sugar, and mined fresh ginger) then top with toasted coconut. I constantly get requests for these! As such, I have started making double batches and freezing individual scone portions unbaked. Pop them frozen in the toaster oven at 450 and they still come out great 🙂
Yum! I’m so glad you like them Katie – and the glaze sounds DIVINE!!!
These are heavenly! I highly suggest using coconut milk with powdered sugar to make a glaze for them. Though I’m sure they’re tasty alone, we added a handful of dark chocolate chips to the dough and WOW, what an amazing treat 🙂 Two-thumbs up!
glaze + chocolate? sign me up!
These look so good! I love coconut 🙂
Heather, these look ridiculously delicious! I’m a huge coconut fan!
I have that very same bag of coconut and coconut milk sitting on my pantry shelf! It was meant to be… 🙂
Is it ok to substitute full fat coconut milk with coconut cream or is that too rich? Could I water it down a bit?
i’ll be honest, i’m not totally sure as i didn’t try it with coconut cream. i would imagine that it would be good to water down a bit though!
Thanks- I’ll give it a try sometime this week (I’m just trying to use up what I have in the kitchen!)
I feel like I know exactly what these taste like from the pics alone. These look delicious.
Love the drizzle photo! Makes me want to taste it now. I do love coconut. I’ll have to remember this one!
These sound fabulous! I find that coconut makes any baked good better… more moist and more flavorful!
Wow, I want one right now! Great idea, and I think I have all the ingredients. Might be baking these later!
Sounds awesome!!! Hope you are feeling good!
Oh man, these look good!! I just blogged about my recent coconut obsession and this is definitely not helping me move on to my next over-used-ingredient, lol. Great recipe!
Coconut scones sound amazing. I can’t wait to make these and spread them with jam. Yum!
Aww yeah. Pure sweet deliciousness!
yum yum yuummmm! what a great breakfast treat! or any time of day treat!
These look outta this world!!! Yummy, such a treat 🙂
Anything coconut and you have my attention. These look so great!
I’m coming over!!! I’ve never had a homemade scone and I LOVE coconut!! mmmm
GASP! no scones?! ashley – we clearly need to do a baked goods swap…i’ll take your donuts, you take my scones (although i’ll have to find a gluten-free version)!
All this coconut makes me wanna go to Hawaii. Just sayin’.
love scones, love coconut = loveeeeeeeee!
Um. Yum. That’s all I have to say.
Mmmm, I drooling into my coffee. How 7 simple ingredients can make something that looks so delicious is the best part about baking 🙂
Great pictures, you can really tell that the scone is crumbly…yum
Heather…these look ah-mazing. I was having an extreme scone craving yesterday and basically tried to make coconut scones, only gluten-free. Didn’t turn out well. I will give these a try! Thank you so much!
MANGIA!!!